Trading Places (1983)

Alfred Drake: President of Exchange

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• Official #1 : [the President of the Exchange and two officials come over to the Duke brothers, with one looking at them like "We got you now, assholes!", after they realized they just been had by Billy Ray and Lewis]  Margin call, gentlemen.

  Mortimer Duke : [Frantically]  Oh, you can't expect us to...

  President of Exchange : [Cuts him off]  You KNOW the rules of the Exchange, Mr. Duke! All accounts are to be settled at the end of the day's trading, WITHOUT exceptions.

  Randolph Duke : You know perfectly WELL we don't have three hundred and ninety-four million dollars in CASH!

  Official #2 : I'm sorry, boys. Put the--Dukes's seats on the Exchange up for sale at once, and seize all holdings of Duke & Duke Commodities Brokers as well as all personal holdings of Randolph and Mortimer Duke.

  Randolph Duke : My God. We're RUINED.

  [clutches his chest] 

  Mortimer Duke : This is an outrage! I DEMAND an investigation! YOU can't sell our seats! A Duke has been SITTING on this Exchange since it was FOUNDED! We FOUNDED this Exchange! It's OURS! It belongs to US!

  Randolph Duke : My God...

  [collapses in shock] 

  Official #2 : Mortimer, your brother's not well! We'd better call an ambulance!

  Mortimer Duke : *FUCK HIM!* Now you listen to me. I want trading reopened *right now.* Get those brokers back in here! Turn those machines back on!

  [shouting, in a pathetic echo throughout the Exchange trading floor and hall] 

  Mortimer Duke : TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!