The Maltese Falcon (1931)

Bebe Daniels: Ruth Wonderly

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• Ruth Wonderly : You seem to have a lot of trouble with your women, don't you, Sam?

• Ruth Wonderly : I know I haven't any right to ask you to help me blindly. But I do ask it. Oh, be generous, Mr. Spade.

  Sam Spade : You won't need much of anybody's help. You're pretty good. As a matter of fact, you're very good. It's chiefly your eyes, I think, and the throb you get in your voice when you say, "Oh, be generous, Mr. Spade."

• Ruth Wonderly : Oh, I'm so tired, Sam. Tired of everything, of myself, of lying, of thinking up lies, until I don't know a lie from the truth.

• Sam Spade : You can take my bedroom. I'll sleep out here.

  Ruth Wonderly : [Seductively]  I hope I won't be putting you out.

• Sam Spade : Say, you had the money last, now, one of the bills is missing. Where is it?

  Ruth Wonderly : I didn't take it, Sam.

  Sam Spade : Maybe you didn't, but I have to find out.

  Ruth Wonderly : You won't take my word for it?

  Sam Spade : No, I won't take your word for it. Take off your clothes.

  Ruth Wonderly : I will not!

  Sam Spade : Oh, yes you will.

  Ruth Wonderly : Well, I certainly won't!

  Sam Spade : All right, I'll have them take them off for you.

  Ruth Wonderly : Sam! Very well.

  [starts taking off her clothes] 

• Sam Spade : He'd have gone up that alley with you, honey.

  Ruth Wonderly : Sam, don't talk to me like that!

  Sam Spade : And if you had asked him to go up that alley with you and he, you knew no one else was there, he would have gone. And then you could have stood with your body up close against his and he would have grinned from ear to ear.

• Ruth Wonderly : You don't think I had anything to do with those murders?

  Sam Spade : I forgot to ask you that. Did you?

  Ruth Wonderly : Oh, no. Of course not.

• Ruth Wonderly : You won't go to the police, will you?

  Sam Spade : Go to them? Why, all I have to do is stand still and they'll be swarming all over me like a bunch of bees.

• Ruth Wonderly : You have a lot of trouble with your women, don't you, Sam?

• Ruth Wonderly : You don't love me.

  Sam Spade : Oh, I think I do.