3 things about John G. Avildsen’s SAVE THE TIGER

Save the Tiger [1973]

1. Garters for his socks.
2. “You want something?”
“Yes … I want that girl in a Cole Porter song. I want to see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club. Hear Billie Holiday sing ‘Fine and Mellow.’ Walk in that kind of rain that never washes the perfume away. I want to be in love with something. Anything. Just an idea. A dog, a cat, anything. Something.”
3. He slips him the envelope of cash and tells him to do it Sunday, while Phil is out fishing.

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