The Most Powerful Scenes! (SPOILERS!)
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Quiz Show
jbartelone — 12 years ago(December 02, 2013 11:23 PM)
Herb Stempl whole classic scene when Dan Enright goes back on his word to get him the Panel Show he promised him. His outrage and lines bashing Enright and Van Doren are PRICELESS!
Richard Goodwin's scene with the President of Geritol.
Richard Goodwin's scene with Dan Enright when he presents the evidence that Mr. Snodgrass mailed the questions and answers to be used on the show to himself.
I get chills watching those scenes. The best acting I have seen!
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kentor404 — 9 years ago(January 15, 2017 11:24 PM)
"Richard Goodwin's scene with Dan Enright when he presents the evidence that Mr. Snodgrass mailed the questions and answers to be used on the show to himself."
The glaring problem with that scene is that in reality the envelope was proof of nothing except that Snodgrass had certified mailed himself something, and I suspect that Goodwin and Enright would have realized that. So what? Without proof of what was actually in the envelope when it was mailed, it proves nothing. Snodgrass could have sent himself an empty envelope by registered mail ahead of time then, after the show aired, put the questions in the envelope, sealed it, and kept it for possible use. Why would he do that? Maybe he was planning on blackmailing Enright later, who knows? You don't have to know the motive to realize his claim to have sent himself the answers ahead of time, without witnesses or further proof of what was actually in the envelope when it was mailed, would prove nothing.
In reality it was not one but a series of letters that Snodgrass had mailed himself, and they weren't the final, case-proving evidence the movie portrays it (them) to be. The letters were just one piece of a much larger puzzle that eventually brought Enright down. -
MissMargoChanning — 6 years ago(April 11, 2019 10:27 AM)
I still get emotional when I watch the scene where Charles is in his parent's kitchen late at night and his father comes down to see him eating cake in the kitchen. We knew that Charles was wrestling with his conscience. He was remembering back to simpler times. That was a bittersweet scene between Fiennes and Scoffield.
That one and the scene where he finally confesses to his father what he has done. It was all so sad.
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
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