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It was their world. We just lived in it.
You've gotta love livin', baby!

The Rat Pack is a 1998 biographical drama television film, about the Rat Pack of the 60's.

Directed by Rob Cohen. Written by Kario Salem.
They never let business get in the way of having fun. (taglines)

Frank Sinatra

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  • [older, waiting backstage, getting ready to perform] I miss my guys. I miss my guys.
  • [on Dean] Could you believe him? He's the only guy in the world who could say "no" to me, and I gotta tell ya, I still love him.
  • [to Peter Lawdord] Help me put your brother in law in the White House. I mean, what else is there for a skinny Wop like me to accomplish in this world, huh?
  • [smiles, smoking a cigar] Life is good.
  • I figure, if power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love, [points to his group] then you haven't really got any.
  • Don't squirm, Peter. I hate it when you squirm.

Dean Martin

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  • [at a casino, jokingly to the photographers] Oh nellie, how'd you all get in my room?
  • 26, a winner. My table. New rules, doll.
  • [performing at the Sands Hotel, jokingly] Maestro, how long have I been out?
  • [Sammy, Joey, and Peter come out on stage without wearing their trousers] There they are, folks. Tarzan, Jane, and the African Queen. Ohhhh, well I think I'm gonna make myself a little salad.
  • The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment, pallie. One of these days, everybody's gonna wake up with a heck of a hangover, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about.

Sammy Davis Jr.

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  • I guess you crackers couldn't afford a ticket! Thought I'd bring the show to you!
  • [to Dean and Frank] Hey, hey, now be fair, be fair, that's all I ask. How'd you like it if I said "Have you ever seen a Wopsicle?"

Peter Lawford

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  • FUCKING KENNEDY'S!
  • I'm an actor, Frank. I'm just an actor. Not a messenger boy, hm? And it's humiliating, do you understand that? I've got the President of the United States of America passing messages through me to Marilyn Monroe, who happens to be drinking out of a flask at the moment, and then I've got Bobby Kennedy whose passing messages through me to you, and your passing messages to Joe Kennedy... And you know what? I just wanna act, Frank. I just wanna... I just wanna act and cheat on my wife! Is it too much to ask? [Frank takes his jacket and leaves in silence, Peter stands alone in the studio] Is it too much to ask?
  • [seeing builders working on a guest compound for JFK at Sinatra's mansion, before giving Frank the bad news] Fucking Kennedy's. Fucking Frank.
  • [on Frank] He's crazy. We're all crazy.

Joey Bishop

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  • [at the Sands Hotel, on Frank and Dean to the audience] Look at these two, ladies and gentlemen, the Italian bookends! Pretty soon they'll be telling you what wonderful work the Mafia's been doing.
  • [jokingly] I'm not really part of this show, folks, I just couldn't get a reservation.

John F. Kennedy

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  • It's all about layers, Bobby, like a woman. Who wants a woman who just appears naked in your bed and spreads legs. Where's the sport in that? No, the name of the game is hide and seek. You have to cover the prize with sprinkles and then voila, pistachio.

Others

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  • Sam Giancana: [when being asked by Johnny Roselli to whack Sinatra and his Rat Pack group] Nah, I wanna hear Frank sing "Chicago" again. I love the way he does that. [lights his cigar]
  • Ava Gardner: [to Frank] I love it when you sing, cos you're honest when you sing. You're an angel when you sing. [pause] Why don't you just sing?
  • Bobby Kennedy: [to his brother] You can't stay at Sinatra's house in Palm Springs. Be pen pals, talk on the phone. The President of the United States can't sleep in the same bed that Sam Giancana slept in. Not while I'm Attorney General.

Dialogue

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[On Air]
News Announcer: Let's go to Press. News Flash! If you had any doubt that Dean Martin can make it without Jerry? Cast that doubt aside. [cut to the Sands Hotel Casino] Besides Martin's hit songs and sold out concert appearances, his performance in The Young Lions is the happy go lucky game chaser, should do for him what From Here to Eternity did for his pal, perennial bad boy Francis Albert. [Dean Martin is walking around the casino, lights himself a cigarette] And with his top ten hit "Memories Are Made of This", and number 1 smash "Volare" [actually number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart], it's safe to say Dino's a talent here to stay.
Dean Martin: [noticing photographers taking his picture] Oh nellie, how'd you all get in my room? [they laugh]
Casino patron: [as Dean is walking by] Hey, Dean, miss Jerry?
Dean Martin: That question's so old it's biblical, pal.
Dean Martin: [picks up the phone, speaks to Frank] Hey, Dago, is that you? What is it?
Frank Sinatra: [speaking to Dean on a phone speaker] Dino, where've you been? We've been looking all over for you. Say hello to Momo and Hank.
Joey Bishop: [arriving into the room] Hey, what am I invisible? Hey!
Dean Martin: [over the phone speaker] Is that that other skinny Jew?
Frank Sinatra: [to Joey] Where have you been? [laughs]
Dean Martin: Joey, fellas.
Joey Bishop: Good, how are you doing, Dino?
Dean Martin: Hey listen, Momo, I'm spreading some of your wealth around here tonight.
Sam Giancana: Hey, zip it, Cavum, what do you think we're on a golf course?
Frank Sinatra: Look, Dean, did you get that script that I sent you?
Dean Martin: [jokingly] Oh, you mean Hamlet? You know I don't look good in tights, Frank.
[they all laugh]
Frank Sinatra: No, you idiot, Some Came Running. Don't make me spend three months in Indiana by my lonesome, alright?
Dean Martin: Look, dickie bird, my character's a card chock with a taste for booze and broads, that might be too much of a stretch.
[all the others in the room laugh]
Joey Bishop: Hey uh, Frank, no part for a brilliant comic who never knows when to shut up?
Frank Sinatra: [jokingly] Shut up!
Joey Bishop: [they all laugh] Alright, alright, fine.
Frank Sinatra: Look, I'm not gonna do this without ya, and that's all there is to it. Now listen to me, I sent the wings for you tonight. We're gonna be catching Sammy's midnight show at Zero's.
Dean Martin: [looking through a pair of small binoculars at an attractive young woman sitting at a card table] Well, you send it back, dig, I'm busy. I got a nice little piece of bridge all right here. Besides, I got my own show tomorrow night.
Hank Sanicola: [to Frank] How can Sammy dance with one eye anyway? Doesn't that mess with your uh... your whatchamacallit?
Frank Sinatra: It's your equilibrium. Give me a splash of bourbon.
Hank Sanicola: Yeah, sure, Frank. [gets up from his seat] Yeah, get the bourbon.
Frank Sinatra: You know what? Cancel that, cancel that.
Hank Sanicola: Yeah, forget the bourbon. [sits back down]
Frank Sinatra: Listen, Dean, I got it all planned out. You take the plane, we'll catch Sammy's show, we'll grab some ring a ding, we'll take the chopper to the Springs for a mid-morning clambake and I have you back at the oasis by showtime. It'll be a gas.
Frank Sinatra: [on Dean] Could you believe him? He's the only guy in the world who could say "no" to me, and I gotta tell ya, I still love him.
Sam Giancana: Hey, hey, hey, I could say no to you.
Frank Sinatra: [puts his hands on Momo's face, laughs] I know, but I don't love you when you do.
Sam Giancana: But I still love you.
Frank Sinatra: [to his group] Come on, let's get outta here. [takes his fedora hat from his two Oscar Awards, puts it on his head] Bishop.
Hank Sanicola: After you, boss.
Frank Sinatra: You got a watch?
Joey Bishop: Yeah, but I was under your time.
Frank Sinatra: Well...
[they head off to Sammy's show]
[At the Sands Hotel and Casino, backstage, Dean pours himself a glass of apple juice]
Joey Bishop: Ladies and gentlemen, direct from the bar at the Sands Hotel, Mr. Dean Martin!
[The band begins playing "Hey There", Dean walks out onto the stage]
Dean Martin: [to the audience, jokingly] How'd all these people get in my room?
Frank Sinatra: Let me help you out here a little. How about some lunch?
Dean Martin: Frank, do you know how to make a fruit cordial?
Frank Sinatra: No, Dean, how do you make a fruit cordial?
Dean Martin: [goes over to Frank, speaks into the microphone] You be nice to him.
[the audience laughs]
Frank Sinatra: Do you believe in fairy godmothers?
Dean Martin: No, but I have an uncle that I'm keeping an eye on.

Taglines

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  • It was their world. We just lived in it.
  • They never let business get in the way of having fun.
  • They never let the rules get in the way of having fun.
  • "You've gotta love livin', baby!"

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