Sweet Jesus, Preacherman (1973)

William Smith: Frank Martelli

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• Martelli : God dammit! I mean, God dammit, all the trucks in this town and you got to pick on mine? What are tryin' to do? Set me up? You sonofabitch!

• Martelli : Cops have been on my ass *all* week. Dumb bastards. They got nothin' else to do, I guess.

• Martelli : Look, Holmes, you're here because I'm havin' problems down at the black community. Somebody's movin' into my territory! They're knockin' off my men and I want it straightened out. Church. There's a little church right down there in the heart of the community. You're gonna go down to that church, Holmes, and you're gonna run it for me.

  Holmes : You *got* to be jivin. You might be able to get me to go down there and make a few hits...

  Martelli : No hits! No killin'! Any more of that shit down there, the Feds move in and nobody gets nothin'!

• Holmes : Why a church?

  Martelli : Come on, man. Don't you see the cover? Man of the cloth. The black messiah. I mean, you walk around down there, you go where you want, you ask questions, you get answers.

• Martelli : Holmes, your father was a preacher. You know that son of a Baptist bull shit.

  Joey : He was a preacher, alright. But, it wasn't nothin' but a store-front set up, man. Nothin' but a shuck. A shuck! I'll say one thing, though, it was about the best shuck goin'.

• Martelli : I let you take care of it. I let you handle it yourself. And what do I get? I get Sweetsticks dead.

• Martelli : Let me tell you somethin', man, you ain't platinum. Look, I got a lot of money sunk into Sills. He don't win this election, it don't mean shit! What are you doin' about that? You just get down there and you get your job done - and you let me sit up here and call the shots.

• Holmes : What have you got to worry about, Frank?

  Martelli : Somebody takin' a piece of my pie.

  Holmes : Well, I know. That's what you sent me down here for. To find out who's stickin' their finger in your pie.