Touch of Evil (1958)

Joseph Calleia: Police Sergeant Pete Menzies

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• Pete Menzies : Convictions. Sure. How many did you frame?

  Quinlan : Nobody.

  Pete Menzies : Come on, Hank. How many did you frame?

  Quinlan : I told you. Nobody. Nobody that wasn't guilty. Guilty. Guilty.

• Marcia Linnekar : I guess that's my father.

  Pete Menzies : Now, Miss Linnekar, can you identify the woman.

  Marcia Linnekar : I'm not acquainted with my father's girlfriends.

• Pete Menzies : You're a killer.

  Hank Quinlan : Partly. I'm a cop.

  Pete Menzies : Yeah, yeah, yeah. Drunk and crazy as you must have been when you strangled him. I guess you were somehow thinking of your wife, the way she was strangled.

  Hank Quinlan : I'm always thinking of her, drunk or sober. What else is there to think about, except my job, my dirty job?

  Pete Menzies : You didn't have to make it dirty.

  Hank Quinlan : I don't call it dirty. Look at the record, our record, partner. Huh?

  Pete Menzies : Sure, sure, sure.

  Hank Quinlan : Well? All those convictions.

• Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : You're an honest cop!

  Pete Menzies : Sure, I am. And who made me an honest cop? Hank Quinlan.

  Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Come on, Menzies.

  Pete Menzies : I am what I am because of him.

• Pete Menzies : All these years you've been playing me for a sucker. Faking evidence.

  Quinlan : Aiding justice, partner.

• Sanchez : What are you trying to do?

  Quinlan : We're trying to strap you to the electric chair, boy.

  Pete Menzies : We don't like it when innocent people are blown to jelly around town.

  Quinlan : There's an old lady on Main Street last night, picked up a shoe and the shoe had a foot in it. We're going to make you pay for that mess.

  Sanchez : [to Vargas]  They're trying to railroad me! I don't know why. I never stole any dynamite.

• Vargas : [to Quinlan]  What make you so very sure it was dynamite?

  Quinlan : My leg.

  Vargas : Your what?

  Pete Menzies : His game leg. Sometimes he gets a kind of twinge, like folks do for a change of weather. "Intuition," he calls it.

• Pete Menzies : Hank, I've been looking for you in every bar in town.

  Quinlan : I've been in half of 'em - only here on the wrong side of the border.

• Pete Menzies : This is a swell time to be getting fried, I must say.

• Quinlan : Did I ever tell you the smart way to kill, Pete?

  Pete Menzies : Sure. Sure. Strangling.

  Quinlan : Clean. Silent.

  Pete Menzies : You told me all that. Come on, finish your coffee.

  Quinlan : I tell my wife that. I don't usually talk about my wife.

  Pete Menzies : Never, when you're sober.

  Quinlan : She was strangled, Pete.

  Pete Menzies : I know. I know.

• Tanya : Now, what would Hank Quinlan be doing here?

  Pete Menzies : He used to be he'd hold up at your place for two or three days with a case of whiskey.

  Tanya : That was years ago. Now he's on candy bars.

• Quinlan : You've been gettin' kinda chummy - you and that Mexican. Does that explain that thing you're carrying around now? What's it called? That thing you're wearing.

  Pete Menzies : What I'm wearing?

  Quinlan : Sure. That halo.

  Pete Menzies : Halo?

  Quinlan : It looks real pretty on you Pete. Pretty soon you'll be flapping your wings like an angel.