King Kong (1976)

Rene Auberjonois: Bagley

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• Roy Bagley : Well, Fred, I finished testing the samples from that pool. It'll be real great oil!

  Fred Wilson : Son of a bitch! Ah, ha ha! Fred Wilson is "crazy" is he? Wait'll those candy-asses in New York hear about this one! Wait'll I put the screws to them! I'll grind them...

  Roy Bagley : Like I said, it *will* be real great oil... as soon as Mother Nature finishes cooking it a little longer... a bit more aging.

  Fred Wilson : How much longer?

  Roy Bagley : Shit, hardly a tick o' the clock, as geological time goes. Say, uh, ten thousand years. Until then, you'd get better mileage filling up your Cadillac with mule piss!

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  Joe Perko : OK, Boan, how much you got here?

  Boan : About eighteen hundred.

  Joe Perko : Eighteen hundred? What's going on?

  Boan : There's Bagley.

  Joe Perko : Hey, Mr. Bagley! Something's haywire. They only loaded me enough pipe to push one test hole. Less than two thousand feet.

  Roy Bagley : Yeah, that'll be enough.

  Boan : Are you kidding? On Bagatan, we didn't come until we were past twenty-six thousand feet.

  Roy Bagley : You take my word, fellas. This hole proves out within two thousand, or it's a write-off.

• Roy Bagley : I guess you can stop sweating, Fred. Navy record's clean. Everything checks out. Fingerprints. The guy's kosher.

  Fred Wilson : And I just know how to use him, too.

• Roy Bagley : Do you really think that's going to ring the bell? Promise oil, bring back a monkey?

  Fred Wilson : Look at that Exxon campaign. "We'll put a tiger in your tank." It did zillions with just a paper tiger!

• Roy Bagley : That satellite was to supposed to be analyzing exhaust gases from a ChiCom missile test. So it was loaded with two special kinds of film. No, first the infrared, I'm sorry. Here we are. Now, the different colors represent different surface temperatures.

  Joe Perko : You mean there's land behind that fog?

  Roy Bagley : Correct, Joe. An island, hidden by a perpetual fog bank. Never seen by human eye, nor walked by human foot.

• Roy Bagley : Look down there, that pool.

  Fred Wilson : Do you think it could be?

  Roy Bagley : The surface seems viscous. It sure as hell could be oil.

  Fred Wilson : Sweet Jesus! Dear Rockefeller!