Dinner at Antoine's
FADE IN:
SUPERIMPOSED ONSCREEN: JANUARY 10, 1948
EXT. A LOW-RENT BUNGALOW, TAMPA, FLORIDA - DAY
Spanish-language music is playing on the radio.
FBI AGENT #1 and LOCAL POLICE OFFICER #1 knock on the screen door.
VICENTE GUTIERREZ, mid-30s and wiry, approaches from an interior room and looks through the screen.
LOCAL POLICE OFFICER #1
Vicente Gutierrez?
GUTIERREZ
Si?
FBI AGENT #1(Flipping open his badge and showing it to GUTIERREZ.)
We have a search warrant, Mr. Gutierrez. Let us in.
CUT TO: INT. THE LAKE BAR, PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS - NIGHT
Bob Wills is playing on the jukebox.
FBI AGENT #2 and LOCAL POLICE OFFICER #2 walk through the crowd of working-class men to CECIL BREWSTER, mid-30s, medium build, who is minding his own business, drinking a beer.
FBI AGENT #2
Cecil Brewster?
BREWSTER (Indifferently.)
Who wants to know?
LOCAL POLICE OFFICER #2 (Flipping open his badge and showing it to BREWSTER.)
We do. We have a warrant for your arrest.
CUT TO: INT. BAR-NONE RANCH RESTAURANT, RIVER ROAD, LOUISIANA - NIGHT
DUTCH SCHAEFER, former Army transport captain, mid-30s, stocky, is drinking bourbon and water at a dinner table with SABIN DUPLESSIS, 33, former Army transport pilot.
FBI AGENT #3 approaches.
FBI AGENT #3
Is this Captain Schaefer?
DUTCH (Chuckling.)
It ain't his brother, Mac. Marshfield send you?
FBI AGENT #3 (Affably.)
In a way.
He pulls out his badge, which he flips open to show DUTCH, who gives a wolf-whistle.
CUT TO: INT. FOXWORTH HOME, 784 TOULOUSE STREET, NEW ORLEANS - NIGHT
Assistant Secretary of State RICHARD HUNTINGTON, 51, a decent and distinguished man, is sitting in the library with ORSON FOXWORTH, 50, his brother-in-law, the wealthy and unscrupulous president of the Great Blue Fleet.
HUNTINGTON
I came down here, Orson, to save you from going to prison—if possible—because that is where you were headed. That is where, quite conceivably, you are still headed!
FOXWORTH
Oh, hell, Richard! With all due respect to you and the State Department, I appreciate your concern, but I'm all right now. If you'd just let me explain!
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MAJOR CREDITS appear over cuts between the main characters dressing for dinner at Antoine's, the staff of Antoine's preparing for dinner service, and other New Orleans' landmarks.
SUPERIMPOSED ONSCREEN: JANUARY 10, 1948
EXT. A LOW-RENT BUNGALOW, TAMPA, FLORIDA - DAY
Spanish-language music is playing on the radio.
FBI AGENT #1 and LOCAL POLICE OFFICER #1 knock on the screen door.
VICENTE GUTIERREZ, mid-30s and wiry, approaches from an interior room and looks through the screen.
LOCAL POLICE OFFICER #1
Vicente Gutierrez?
GUTIERREZ
Si?
FBI AGENT #1(Flipping open his badge and showing it to GUTIERREZ.)
We have a search warrant, Mr. Gutierrez. Let us in.
CUT TO: INT. THE LAKE BAR, PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS - NIGHT
Bob Wills is playing on the jukebox.
FBI AGENT #2 and LOCAL POLICE OFFICER #2 walk through the crowd of working-class men to CECIL BREWSTER, mid-30s, medium build, who is minding his own business, drinking a beer.
FBI AGENT #2
Cecil Brewster?
BREWSTER (Indifferently.)
Who wants to know?
LOCAL POLICE OFFICER #2 (Flipping open his badge and showing it to BREWSTER.)
We do. We have a warrant for your arrest.
CUT TO: INT. BAR-NONE RANCH RESTAURANT, RIVER ROAD, LOUISIANA - NIGHT
DUTCH SCHAEFER, former Army transport captain, mid-30s, stocky, is drinking bourbon and water at a dinner table with SABIN DUPLESSIS, 33, former Army transport pilot.
FBI AGENT #3 approaches.
FBI AGENT #3
Is this Captain Schaefer?
DUTCH (Chuckling.)
It ain't his brother, Mac. Marshfield send you?
FBI AGENT #3 (Affably.)
In a way.
He pulls out his badge, which he flips open to show DUTCH, who gives a wolf-whistle.
CUT TO: INT. FOXWORTH HOME, 784 TOULOUSE STREET, NEW ORLEANS - NIGHT
Assistant Secretary of State RICHARD HUNTINGTON, 51, a decent and distinguished man, is sitting in the library with ORSON FOXWORTH, 50, his brother-in-law, the wealthy and unscrupulous president of the Great Blue Fleet.
HUNTINGTON
I came down here, Orson, to save you from going to prison—if possible—because that is where you were headed. That is where, quite conceivably, you are still headed!
FOXWORTH
Oh, hell, Richard! With all due respect to you and the State Department, I appreciate your concern, but I'm all right now. If you'd just let me explain!
CUT TO:
MAJOR CREDITS appear over cuts between the main characters dressing for dinner at Antoine's, the staff of Antoine's preparing for dinner service, and other New Orleans' landmarks.