Sunday Showcase (TV Series)

What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 2 (1959)

Larry Blyden: Sammy Glick

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Al Manheim : [speech slightly slurred from drunkenness; standing at edge of a desk at which Sammy Glick is seated]  You always think you can stop me, Sammy. Year after year, you've been choking me off whenever you want. Well wait and see. I'm gonna finish that play. I'm gonna call it, "Success," or, "What Makes Sammy Run?" Big question. What makes Sammy run?

  Sammy Glick : Sure, Al, but that's not the question...

  Al Manheim : I've gotta know. I've got to find the answer to that question once and for all. I've gotta know.

  [leans down and over the desk to be almost face-to-face with Sammy] 

  Sammy Glick : Sure, Al, sure. But what about the other question? The real question? What makes you, and you

  [looks toward Kit Sargent] 

  Sammy Glick : , and all the rest of you, run after me? Now you think about that when you sober up. You think about that, Alsy Palsy

  [leans forward, puts his face closer to Al's and lightly, patronizingly, slaps his face] 

  Kit Sargent : We have to live with that, Sammy. But at least we live.

  Sammy Glick : [jerks his head back as his eyes widen; turns and stares at Kit, is momentarily frozen in place, then slumps back in chair and droops his shoulders; stares straight ahead as his face hardens; leans forward again, begins talking in a rapid monotone to his assistants, going over a list of tasks without stopping to take a breath, ignoring Al and Kit as they turn to walk out; pauses]  Well

  [pauses] 

  Sammy Glick : I gotta run.