Photos
Quotes
-
Tommy Chan : If you're stuck, I'll help you out.
Charlie Chan : You are like business end of water spout - always running off at mouth.
-
Charlie Chan : If man places self in way of finger of suspicion, must not be surprised if he receive poke in the eye.
Paul Arranto : You suspect me?
Charlie Chan : Suspicion like rain - fall upon just and unjust. You protect yourself with umbrella of innocence, but at moment I'm afraid your umbrella have big leak.
-
Charlie Chan : Very strange woman, Mrs. Hargue.
Tommy Chan : Yeah, Pop. She's strictly icky, right off the cob and way off the beam.
Charlie Chan : Could possibly speak English?
Iris Chan : He means she's a slick chick gone to seed, Pop. She got bats in her head and bees in her bustle.
Charlie Chan : Language sound very strange to elderly ears.
Tommy Chan : Sure, Pop, but we're hepcats of the younger generation. You're Confucius and I'm Confucius Junior.
Charlie Chan : Conficius Junior... Please, go.
-
Charlie Chan : Detective without curiosity is like glass eye at keyhole - no good.
-
Charlie Chan : Man who never leave wheelchair should never wear out shoe leather.
-
Charlie Chan : May learn something of Germans and Japanese here.
Sgt. Billings : All I wanna know about them is what I can get lookin' over a rifle sight.
Charlie Chan : Most excellent viewpoint!
-
Charlie Chan : You are David Blake, D.P.E. What does that stand for, please?
David Blake : Department of Political Economy. If you read your newspapers, you'd know more about me.
Charlie Chan : I, uh, know what columnists say about you in morning paper: Quote, "What David Blake does not know about political economy would fill many books," unquote.
-
Charlie Chan : You told to remain in hall!
Tommy Chan : We were upstairs looking for clues, Pop.
Charlie Chan : Looking for clues upstairs while murderer downstairs shooting at honorable parent.
Tommy Chan : Gosh, did they kill you, Pop?
-
Charlie Chan : When alibi pushed at me, always suspect motive in woodpile.
-
Charlie Chan : [referring to Tommy and Iris] Children go through life with same tact as tornado.
-
Charlie Chan : How can man walk around after he is dead?
-
Charlie Chan : Now, Mrs., uh, Winters. When Miss Arranto scream, you ran out into hall?
Mrs. Winters : Well, not at first. I couldn't move. I was simply putrified.
Charlie Chan : Excuse, please, I do not believe you mean "putrified."
Mrs. Winters : My dear man, I KNOW what I mean.
Inspector Jones, Secret Service : [laughs] Well, I'll be a pop-eyed pollywog.
Mrs. Winters : So will I. Oh, my goodness, I mean no such thing!
-
Charlie Chan : The trouble with modern children is that they do not smart in right place.
Tommy Chan : Did Confucius say that, Pop?
Charlie Chan : No, I say that!
-
Tommy Chan : Hey, Pop.
Charlie Chan : Quiet. Detective at work.