Films About Adultery

"Dwight McFee as Veteran controller"

"Joe Pingue as Mark"

"Matt Gordon as Ken"

"Neil Crone as Tom"

"Mike O'Malley as Pete"

"Philip Akin as Paul"

"Michael Willis as Pat Feeney"

"Jerry Grayson as Leo Morton"

"Vicki Lewis as Tina Leary"

"Kurt Fuller as Ed Clabes"

"Jake Weber as Barry Plotkin"

"Angelina Jolie as Mary Bell"

"Cate Blanchett as Connie Falzone"

"Billy Bob Thornton as Russell Bell"

"John Cusack as Nick "The Zone" Falzone"

"I know he brings 'em in steep, and tight. But he gets the job done. He pushes tin."

"Hangin' left today, Ed?"

"Human beings can tolerate a lot of pain, you never know until it happens."

"I used to bowl, when I was an alcoholic."

"If you ever want to sleep at night, don't marry a beautiful girl."

"[Listening to Nick ramble on about their affair] I am way too sober for this."

"Mr. Falzone, what's the fewest number of words you can use to get out that door?"

"To hold on to sanity too tight is insane."

"Oh, you really think the pilot is controlling this plane? That would really scare me."

"[to Madge Gorland] With my brains and your looks, we could go places."

"Lana Turner. John Garfield. M-G-Marvelous!"

"Their Love was a Flame that Destroyed!"

"Jeff York - Blair"

"Alan Reed - Ezra Liam Kennedy"

"Audrey Totter - Madge Gorland"

"Leon Ames - Kyle Sackett"

"Hume Cronyn - Arthur Keats"

"Cecil Kellaway - Nick Smith"

"John Garfield - Frank Chambers"

"Lana Turner - Cora Smith"

"Arthur Burghardt - Great Ahmed Kahn"

"Conchata Ferrell - Barbara Schlesinger"

"Kathy Cronkite - Mary Ann Gifford"

"Ned Beatty - Arthur Jensen"

"Wesley Addy - Nelson Chaney"

"Robert Duvall - Frank Hackett"

"Peter Finch - Howard Beale"

"William Holden - Max Schumacher"

"Faye Dunaway - Diana Christensen"

"Prepare yourself for a perfectly outrageous motion picture!"

"Television will never be the same!"

"The business of management is management."

"[Final line in the film] This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings."

"The initial response to the new Howard Beale Show was not auspicatory. The press was, without exception, hostile and industry reaction, negative. The ratings for the Thursday and Friday shows were both 14%, but Monday's rating dropped a point, clearly suggesting the novelty was wearing off."

"It was a perfectly admissible argument that Howard Beale advanced in the days that followed. It was, however, also a very depressing one. Nobody particularly cared to hear his life was utterly valueless. By the end of the first week in June, The Howard Beale Show had dropped one point in the ratings and its trend of shares dipped under 48% for the first time since last November."