A Bullet for Joey (1955)

Peter van Eyck: Eric Hartman

Quotes 

• Joe Victor aka Steiner : My hand's out, and my palm is itching. $100,000.

  Eric Hartman : Less the advance our friend in Lisbon gave you.

  Joe Victor aka Steiner : Less nothing. Plus expenses. Come on, pay off.

• Eric Hartman : [Throws a newspaper article on Joe's laps that tells of Yvonne Temblay being found dead]  You've seen this?

  Joe Victor aka Steiner : So What?

  Eric Hartman : Amazing how calm you are. Doesn't that raise your pulse even slightly?

  Joe Victor aka Steiner : I don't have any pulse.

• Eric Hartman : What good is it going to do us, find him, make him talk?

  Joe Victor aka Steiner : Don't get excited.

  Eric Hartman : You feel we shouldn't get excited?

  Joe Victor aka Steiner : Sure. When you get excited you get ants. And when you get ants, you get rattled.