If people didn’t have headaches, what would happen to the Aspirin industry? The Killing 1956 starring Sterling Hayden & Vince Edwards & Coleen Gray & Jay C Flippen & Elisha Cook junior & Marie Windsor & Ted de Corsia & Joe Sawyer et al, director Stanley Kubrick, wife to husband
You’re a no-good nosy little tramp. ibid. hood to wife
Johnny had no choice but to save himself and the money. ibid. commentary
Once I’d seen her, I was not in my right mind for some time. The Lady From Shanghai 1948 starring Rita Hayworth & Orson Welles & Everett Sloane & Glenn Anders & Ted de Corsia & Erskine Sanford & Gus Schilling & Louis Merrill et al, director Orson Welles, opening remarks
It’s easy: you just pull the trigger. ibid. Welles
Give me a cigarette; I’m learning to smoke now. ibid. Hayworth
You can’t hide the hunger and guilt; it’s a bright guilty world. ibid. Welles
This is a straightforward business proposition: I want you to kill me. ibid. George
Everything is bad, Michael. Everything. ibid. Hayworth
I found the gun; you killed Grisby; you’re the killer. ibid. Welles to Hayworth
I never knew the old Vienna before the war with its Strauss music and its glamour and easy charm. The Third Man 1949 starring Orson Welles & Trevor Howard & Joseph Cotten & Alida Valli & Bernard Lee & Wilfrid Hyde-White & Erich Ponto & Ernst Deutsch & Robert Brown et al, director Carol Reed, opening remarks
Soldier: His name?
Martins: Lime. Harry Lime. ibid.
I want to be dead too. ibid. actress to Martins
There was a third man. He didn’t give evidence. ibid. Austrian bloke
What price would you pay? ibid. Martins
Do you realize what you’re saying? You’re telling me that I’m dead. DOA 1950 starring Edmond O’Brien & Pamela Britton & Luther Adler & Lynn Baggett & William Ching & Beverly Garland & Virginia Lee et al, director Rudolph Mate
I can breathe and I can move, but I’m not alive because I took that poison, and nothing can save me. ibid.
The woman always gets hurt more than the man. ibid. him to her
You’re in this right up to your pretty little neck. ibid.
She’s been passing military information to the agent … He’s Mister Big. Pickup on South Street 1953 starring Richard Widmark & Jean Peters & Thelma Ritter & Murvyn Vye & Richard Kiley & Willis Bouchey & Milburn Stone, director Samuel Fuller, rozzer
You know what was on that film? A new patent for a chemical formula. ibid. Joey
I’ve kissed a lot of guys. ibid. her to him
My name’s McCloud. Frank McCloud. Key Largo 1948 starring Humphrey Bogart & Edward G Robinson & Lauren Bacall & Lionel Barrymore & Claire Trevor & Thomas Gomez & Harry Lewis & John Rodney & Marc Lawrence et al, director John Huston, Bogart
What I need is a drink. ibid. Johnny’s bird
I only care about me – me and mine. ibid. Bogart
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one’s all right, he turns legit. The Asphalt Jungle 1950 starring Sterling Hayden & Louis Calhern & Jean Hagen & James Whitmmore & Sam Jaffe & John McIntire & Marc Lawrence & Barry Kelley & Anthony Causo, director John Huston, Doc
Let me put it this way. It’s not anything strange that there are corrupt officers in police departments. The dirt they’re trying to clean up is bound to rub off on some of ’em, but not all of ’em. Maybe one out of a 100. The other 99 are honest men trying to do an honest job. Listen ... [One by one, he flips switches on police radios behind him that broadcast crime reports] I know you’re police reporters and you hear this all day long, but I want you to listen with your conscience, not just your ears. We send police assistance to every one of those calls ’cause they're not just code numbers on a radio beam, they’re cries for help. People are being cheated, robbed, murdered, raped. And that goes on 24 hours a day, every day in the year. And that’s not exceptional, that’s usual. It’s the same in every city of the modern world. But suppose we had no police force, good or bad. Suppose we had [he flips off all four radios] – just silence. Nobody to listen, nobody to answer. The battle’s finished. The jungle wins. The predatory beasts take over. Think about it. Well gentlemen, three men are in jail, three men dead, one by his own hand. One man’s a fugitive – and we have reason to believe seriously wounded. That’s six out of seven, not bad. And we’ll get the last one too. In some ways, he’s the most dangerous of them all. A hardened killer. A hooligan. A man without human feeling or human mercy. ibid. police commissioner
I can see a better world. A greater world. The Sound of Fury 1950 starring Frank Lovejoy & Lloyd Bridges & Kathleen Ryan & Richard Carlson & Katherine Locke & Adale Jergens & Art Smith et al, director Cyril Endfield, opening scene
I bet I know why you couldn’t sleep. You’ve been drinking too much. Don’t you think you ought to take it easy. ibid. her to him
People do things they don’t mean sometimes. They just happen. ibid. him to her
I’m glad it is all over. I want to die. It’s no use to live. ibid. letter to wife
In a democracy there is no place for mob violence. ibid. Sheriff
Violence is a disease caused by moral and social breakdown. That is the real problem. And it must be solved by reason. Not by emotion. With understanding, not hate. ibid. Professor
It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes. And not even be able to think about it with any sense. Killer’s Kiss 1955 starring Frank Silvera & Jamie Smith & Irene Kane & Jerry Jarrett & Mike Dana & Felice Orlandi & Skippy Adelman & David Vaughan & Alec Rubin, director Stanley Kubrick, opening scene on train station concourse
Hey? What’s going on in there? ibid. him across the landing
Let go of me or I’ll scream. ibid. her to sleazy boss
Every night I worked in that depraved place: a human zoo. ibid. her to him
When the cops came I took them back to see Gloria. ibid. back on railway concourse