The Absent Minded Professor (1961)

Don Ross: Lenny

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• Alonzo P. Hawk : Well, I guess we shook them up a little, huh? Nobody's gonna push us around.

  Biff Hawk : You're kidding, aren't you, Pop? I mean, about closing down the college and turning the grounds into a housing tract?

  Alonzo P. Hawk : Son, I'm gonna teach you some of the facts of life. The small college, like the small country store and the little drug store, they're all in the same boat. Well, they're sinking. Today is the day of the supermarkets, the super colleges. The little man is gonna get squashed.

  Biff Hawk : But you graduated from Medfield. It's your college.

  Alonzo P. Hawk : All right, so what do you want? Some total stranger to close it down? Or some loyal, friendly alumnus to take care of things?

  Biff Hawk : But isn't there something you could do? I mean, give 'em some more time on the loan or something?

  Alonzo P. Hawk : Now, look, son, I'm sentimental about Medfield just like you, but it's like shooting a horse that has a broken leg. I want to do it to put it out of its misery. Now, if I happen to make a few extra bucks on the side, well, that's just something you're going to have to learn to accept.

  Biff Hawk : Yes, sir.

  Alonzo P. Hawk : Oh, about the game tonight. Has the word gotten around that you're not playing?

  Biff Hawk : Not that I know of. Not yet.

  Alonzo P. Hawk : [to driver]  Say, Lenny, see what the point spread is on the Medfield/Rutland game tonight, will you?

  Lenny : How much you wanna go for?

  Alonzo P. Hawk : Oh, whatever the traffic will bear. 8,000 or 10,000 bucks.

  Biff Hawk : Pop, you're not betting on Medfield? Without me on the team, we'll get murdered.

  Alonzo P. Hawk : Who said I'm betting on Medfield?

  Biff Hawk : You're not betting *against* us?

  Alonzo P. Hawk : Now, son, we have access to some very valuable information about that game tonight. There's an old saying, "It's an ill wind that doesn't blow a few extra bucks into the coffers of the Auld Lang Syne loan company." Get the point?