This Gun for Hire (1942)

Laird Cregar: Willard Gates

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Quotes 

• Willard Gates : Raven... how do you feel when you're doing...

  [indicates murder headlines] 

  Willard Gates : this?

  Philip Raven : I feel fine.

• Willard Gates : Such a lovely body. It's revolting.

• Willard Gates : Don't you trust me?

  Philip Raven : Don't trust anybody.

• [referring to Ellen who is bound, gagged and unconscious] 

  Tommy : I never even scratched her. We're a cinch. In a couple of hours, the bridge over the reservoir will be deserted. Now look...

  Willard Gates : Don't tell me! I don't what to know anything about it.

  Tommy : This is a work of art. The ropes come off. I tie sash weights to her ankles with soft catgut.

  Willard Gates : Please. That's a horrible word.

  Tommy : Now get the angle on this! She disappears - two weeks, maybe three, then up she pops. None of this stuff on her anymore. No marks - a suicide. Now isn't that beautiful?

  Willard Gates : It's loathsome. Be sure no one sees you.

• [discussing Raven's fee for murdering the blackmailer, Albert Baker] 

  Willard Gates : Direct from the bank as I promised. Oh, I see your point, of course. If the bills were bad, you couldn't very well complain to the police, could you?

  Philip Raven : I'm my own police.