# Night Shift (film)

Night Shift is a 1982 film about a formerly successful stockbroker and his crazy co-worker who open a call girl service at the city morgue.
    Directed by Ron Howard. Written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel.

## Bill Blazejowski

* What's our job? We like drive around and pickup stiffs, or what? Is that what we are supposed to do?
* Wanna know why I carry this tape recorder? To tape things. See, I'm an idea man, Chuck. I got ideas coming at me all day... I couldn't even fight 'em off if I wanted. Wait a second... hold the phone! Hold the phone! [speaking into tape recorder] Idea to eliminate garbage. Edible paper. You eat it, it's gone! You eat it, it's outta there! No more garbage!
* So there I was at the Blackjack table with all my wash 'n' dries... did I tell you I had the idea for them first?
* What if you mix...mayonnaise right in the can with the tuna fish? Hold it! Hold it! Wait a minute! Chuck! Take live tuna fish...and feed them mayonnaise. Oh this is good. [speaks into tape recorder] Call StarKist.
* We'll call ourselves Love Brokers.
* What are we really talking about here? Huh? What's the essence of what we're talking about? Spell it out for you if I have to. [writing on chalkboard] PROSTITUTION! Prostitution. Yeah, we can say it. We're big kids now, right? You know a lot of times it'll help you to understand a word if you break it down, so let’s do that now, shall we? PROS... it doesn't mean anything. Forget about that... TIT, I think we all know what that means. TU, kay two tit and TION, of course, from the Latin to shun... to say no, uh-uh, thank you anyway I don't want it, to push away... it doesn't even belong in this word really, so let's get rid of that.
* I wash my hands and my feet of you!

## Others

* Chuck Lumley: [reads the forms that Leonard, the day shift guy left] Name of the deceased... something Polish?
* Leonard: Oh, that Barney Rubble. What an actor.

## Dialogue

    Chuck: I used to be an investment counselor.
    Bill: Yeah? [pause] What's that?
    Chuck: It's like a stockbroker.
    Bill: So what're you doing babysitting stiffs? What were you... drinker? Big drinker?
    Chuck: No!
    Bill: Doper! Toothead! Nose candy! Coke!
    Bill: [picking up photo from desk] Hey Chuck? Who is this? Your wife?
    Chuck: Fiancée.
    Bill: Nice frame!
    Bill: You tellin' me to shut up?
    Chuck: I'm telling you to shut up! I will tell your recorder so that you don't forget!
    [Chuck picks up tape recorder and turns it on]
    Chuck: Hello, this is Chuck to remind Bill to SHUT UP!
    Chuck: [elevator door opens; Chuck sees Belinda lying on the elevator floor] Oh my God. Did you fall down? Did somebody hit you?
    Belinda: Other way round. Somebody hit me and then I fell down.
    Chuck: As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.
    Bill: Is this a great country, or what?
    Bill: [Chuck is spitting on himself in the jail cell] Chuck, come on - it looks bad in front of the other guys!
    Chuck: So what am I running for, cell president?
    Bill: No!... they have that?
    Belinda: Bill, Bill, are you all right? Did you break anything, Bill?
    Bill: I caught an updraft.
    Chuck: Are you OK?
    Bill: Yeah, I'm alright, don't worry, I'm alright, fortunately the ground broke my fall.

## Taglines

* Ever since two enterprising young men turned the City Morgue into a swinging business, people have been dying to get in.
* It makes the day seem dead.
* Together they are going to make the day pay off... all night long!
* The oldest profession in a new-look comedy.

## Cast

* Henry Winkler - Chuck Lumley
* Michael Keaton - Bill Blazejowski
* Shelley Long - Belinda Keaton
* Gina Hecht - Charlotte Koogle

## External links

* Night Shift quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Night Shift at Rotten Tomatoes