The Saint Takes Over (1940)
George Sanders: Simon Templar, The Saint
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Quotes
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Clarence 'Pearly' Gates : I just wish I knew your angle, Saint. Whose side are you on.
Simon Templar : I'm on my own side.
Clarence 'Pearly' Gates : Where does that put me?
Simon Templar : That depends. If you were cleverer than you look, you'll be on my side.
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Clarence 'Pearly' Gates : But I never squealed on anyone in my life.
Simon Templar : If you don't start now, you'll never have another chance.
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Simon Templar : Rocky is still at his night club.
Inspector Henry Fernack : Now, wait a minute, Simon. Why can't I go to a nightclub? I'll not be party to any rough stuff.
Simon Templar : [Dismissively] You toddle off to bed like a good boy. These denizens of iniquity are no place for a respectable married man. I'll just drift into Rocky's gin palace and see what's going on.
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Simon Templar : What have you got there?
[Reading newspaper story]
Simon Templar : New York Police Inspector cries "Foul!" Etc., etc. John Henry Fernack of the Homicide Bureau unable to explain the source of $50,000 found in his safe
[Simon smiles slightly]
Simon Templar : ... so and so forth.
Ruth Summers : Could have said he won it on a horse or roulette or something.
Simon Templar : Fernack is much too honest for that.
Ruth Summers : ...or too stupid.
Simon Templar : Well, let's drink to him anyway. Seems to me he'll need more than that. Maybe he needs a guardian angel.
Ruth Summers : Or a patron saint.
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Ruth Summers : What are you going to do?
Simon Templar : That, darling, is the big problem of the moment.