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Película de televisión de 1977 dirigida por Frank D. Gilroy
Nero Wolfe es una película para televisión estadounidense de 1979 adaptación de la novela de Nero Wolfe de 1965 The Doorbell Rang de Rex Stout. Thayer David protagoniza como Wolfe, gourmet, conocedor y genio detective. Tom Mason coprotagoniza como Archie Goodwin, asistente de Wolfe. Escrita y dirigida por Frank D. Gilroy, la película fue producida por Paramount Television como piloto para una serie de televisión de ABC, pero fue archivada por la cadena por más de dos años antes de finalmente ser transmitida el 19 de diciembre de 1979.
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“I am nobody's friend. How much can you pay?”
“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
“Wolfe frowned at her. He hated fights about wills, having once gone so far as to tell a prospective client that he refused to engage in a tug of war with a dead man's guts for a rope.”
“I'm fairly good with a billiard cue, and only Saul Panzer can beat me at tailing a man or woman in New York, but what I am best at is reporting a complicated event to Nero Wolfe.”
“Apparently you have performed prodigies of sagacity and finesse without knowing it. Not surely by inadvertence. It must be that your singular faculties operate below the level of consciousness -- or above it. Perhaps the psychologists should add a new term, superconscious.”
“I had first noticed her in the lobby of the Churchill, because she rated a glance as a matter of principle — the principle that a man owes it to his eyes to let them rest on attractive objects when there are any around.”
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