“The Beast of the City” quotes
(1932)
Title The Beast of the City
Year 1932
Director Charles Brabin
Genre Drama, Crime, Film-Noir
Year 1932
Director Charles Brabin
Genre Drama, Crime, Film-Noir
All actors – Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Peterson, Tully Marshall, John Miljan, Emmett Corrigan, Warner Richmond, Sandy Roth, J. Carrol Naish, Eddie Baker
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“I don't know a thing about any of you. Good or bad, efficient or inefficient. I'm not upsetting any apple cart. Every man keeps the job he's got now until he proves to me he's worth a better one or he has no right on the force at all. I'm not fighting you and you're not fighting me. We're going to fight together.”
“This town has become about as rotten as an open grave.”
“- Daisy: That hurts a little bit.
- Ed Fitzpatrick: And you don't like to be hurt, do you?
- Daisy: Oh, I don't know. Kinda fun sometimes if it's done in the right spirit.”“- Chief of Police: Fitz is nothing but a tough, uncouth Irishman. He's liable to make things very embarrassing for you.
- Mayor: A good politician never gets embarrassed, Bert. That's something you should have learned.”“- Daisy: I'm laming for good!
- Ed Fitzpatrick: What do you mean?
- Daisy: I'm just sick and fed up with this whole town. I guess I always gotta be on the move, that's all.”“- Daisy: I'm going away in a couple of days, Ed.
- Ed Fitzpatrick: I'll be right here when you come back.”“Don't kick me in the shin, or I'll smack you right in the face!”
“I got my own game when I play it and it doesn't include helping somebody to make somebody else to stop breathing. I don't want any murder jobs hung on me.”
“Take away your guns and your hop and you're nothing but crawling yellow maggots.”
“Never mind those open hands. Close them up into fists, and use them!”
“I don't mind taking orders, but there's one decision that's always up to me.”
“I'm an old man. I left my youth in the capitals of Europe.”
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