The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)

Marguerite Chapman: Patricia Foster aka Laura Browning

Quotes 

• Patricia Foster aka Laura Browning : Well, this little country girl from San Francisco will have to put all this in her diary. First night in New York and she lands the famous Archer as her escort.

  Gilbert Archer : I wish we met under happier circumstances.

• Patricia Foster aka Laura Browning : Not that it really matters, Mr. Archer, but how did you find out where I live?

  Gilbert Archer : Elementary, my dear Watson. The doorman at The Yonkers got the name of your taxi driver and he told me where he took you.

  Patricia Foster aka Laura Browning : I suppose I should feel flattered by this attention, but do you mind very much if I am annoyed instead?

• Patricia Foster aka Laura Browning : What do you want of me?

  Gilbert Archer : I'm gonna tear this whole thing apart and find out how the pieces fit together. Some of the pieces are apt to get chipped in the process. I want to know where you fit in before I start chipping.

  Patricia Foster aka Laura Browning : I'd rather have the chips fall as they may.

• Gilbert Archer : I never yet met a woman who made me go soft in the head until this afternoon when the cops started asking me questions, I covered up for you.

  Patricia Foster aka Laura Browning : Why?

  Gilbert Archer : You figure that one. I don't believe you killed anyone with your own lily-white hands but how do I know the killer's not working for you? And if you don't come clean now, Laura Browning, I'll turn you over to the boys downtown and when they get through with you, you will have confessed to everything from the assassination of Lincoln to the murder of Cock Robin.

• Patricia Foster aka Laura Browning : Why have you followed me?

  Gilbert Archer : I always like to follow pretty ankles.