5 million for film rights o the popular Broadway hit.It turned out to be one of the top five most successful films in 1964 - a combination of clever lyrics and singable tunes, with a great lead and supporting cast, and lavishly-designed heatrical sets and costumes.Murrow.But Ruddy cannot tolerate Max""s complicity "in a shocking and disgraceful episode.Your position is no longer tenable regardless of how management is restructured.I will expect your resignation at ten o""clock tomorrow morning..." Max is summarily fired from he News Division.Howard Beale, meanwhile, has become the darling of he media after his triumphant return, and he speaks behind a crushing ide of cameras following his last broadcast: "Every day, five days a week, for fifteen years, I""ve been sitting behind that desk, he dispassionate pundit, reporting with seemly detachment the daily parade of lunacies that constitute the news and just once I wanted o say what I really felt."Then, she told Kara that her son could also hear he "voice" - "just like the other boy that lived in that house.In her dressing room, Frenchy""s chattering black maid Clara (Lillian Yarbo) cowers like "a mass of quiverin"" flesh" from he "boomin"" and the bangin"" of them there pop-guns," although Frenchy is accustomed to gun violence in Bottleneck: "What do you expect in a town like this?" Frenchy bends over and empties her bustier of gold coins:Clara: What""s comin"" up? A new gold rush?Frenchy: We never got anything like that in New Orleans, did we?Clara: Maybe so, maybe so, but it was a heap more peaceful.