I Wonder - The Art of Sexual Innuendo

A categoria filme noir é reconhecida, acima de tudo, pela crueza e sujidade dos diálogos. Este é retirado de Double Indemnity, filme de 1944 de Billy Wilder, com Fred MacMurray (Neff), Barbara Stanwyck (Phyllis) e Edward G. Robinson (Keyes).

Neff, um angariador de seguros dirige-se a casa de um cliente para tratar da renovação de um seguro automóvel. Em vez de apanhar o cliente, apanha a mulher do mesmo acabada de sair do banho e enrolada numa toalha. Depois de um primeiro jogo de palavras sobre estar “fully covered” Phyllis (já vestida) e Neff têm um dialogo aparentemente inocente sobre apólices até que a conversa vai parar a uma pulseira que Phyllis ostenta no tornozelo.

Neff: I wish you'd tell me what's engraved on that anklet.
Phyllis: Just my name.
Neff: As for instance?
Phyllis: Phyllis.
Neff: Phyllis, huh. I think I like that.
Phyllis: But you're not sure.
Neff: I'd have to drive it around the block a couple of times.
Phyllis: Mr. Neff, why don't you drop by tomorrow evening around 8:30? He'll be in then.
Neff: Who?
Phyllis: My husband. You were anxious to talk to him, weren't you?
Neff: Yeah, I was. But I'm sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.
Phyllis: There's a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff, 45 miles an hour.
Neff: How fast was I going, Officer?
Phyllis: I'd say around 90.
Neff: Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket.
Phyllis: Suppose I let you off with a warning this time.
Neff: Suppose it doesn't take.
Phyllis: Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles.
Neff: Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder.
Phyllis: Suppose you try putting it on my husband's shoulder.
Neff: That tears it... (He takes his hat and briefcase after his advances are coldly rebuffed.) 8:30 tomorrow evening, then.
Phyllis: That's what I suggested.
Neff: You'll be here too?
Phyllis: I guess so. I usually am.
Neff: Same chair, same perfume, same anklet?
Phyllis: I wonder if I know what you mean.
Neff: (Opening the entrance door.) I wonder if you wonder.