Johnny O'Clock (1947)
Evelyn Keyes: Nancy Hobson
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Quotes
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Nancy Hobbs : What do I do now, Johnny?
Johnny O'Clock : Dry your eyes and blow your nose in the order named.
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Nancy Hobbs : If it's just for laughs, then I want to be in on the joke from the start.
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Inspector Koch : Where can I get in touch with you if I need you.
Nancy Hobbs : I don't know. Here, I guess.
Inspector Koch : Here?
Nancy Hobbs : A room is a room.
Inspector Koch : You're alright.
Nancy Hobbs : Yeah. Hard as nails. Nothing ever moves me. Now get out of here and let me cry by myself.
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[last lines]
Johnny O'Clock : [injured with a gunshot wound, pointing a gun at Koch, catching him by surprise as he enters the room] Don't bother raising your hands. Just keep 'em at your sides.
Inspector Koch : You're out of your mind.
Johnny O'Clock : That's right... crazy. Crazy smart.
Inspector Koch : Put that gun down.
Johnny O'Clock : I tell you what you're gonna do, Koch. You're gonna walk me out the front door, past everybody. If they stop us, you'll tell 'em I gave myself up, you arrested me.
Inspector Koch : You think I'd say that.
Johnny O'Clock : Listen to me. I got a bullet in my gut, and fire in my brain. It wouldn't take much for me to let you have it right now.
Nancy Hobbs : [desperately in hearing Johnny's words as she rushes to his side] Johnny, you don't know what you're doing. You don't know what you're saying.
Johnny O'Clock : All I know is in this gun.
Inspector Koch : All I know is that I got to bring you in. When we get to the door, I'll tell 'em to shoot.
Johnny O'Clock : All right, so they'll shoot...
Nancy Hobbs : No! It's not all right, not for me, it isn't. Oh Johnny, give yourself up.
Johnny O'Clock : Nancy, I haven't got a chance. All my life, this guy's been chasing me...
Nancy Hobbs : Johnny, it's the pain. You're weak, you're hurt...
Johnny O'Clock : [defiantly] I know what I'm saying. He's been looking to get something on me. Now, he's got it. Even if I told the truth...
Inspector Koch : [yelling back] What is the truth.
Johnny O'Clock : [about Marchettis' shooting] It was self defense.
Inspector Koch : His wife said you shot him in cold blood, for money.
Johnny O'Clock : That's a lie!
Inspector Koch : If it's a lie, it'll come out.
Johnny O'Clock : In storybooks. This is too good a frame.
Inspector Koch : Nobody's out to frame you, O'Clock.
Inspector Koch : [to Nancy] If you want him alive, tell him to drop that gun.
Nancy Hobbs : [increasingly passionate as she goes on] No. I don't want him alive. I want him dead. I want to cry for him. I haven't had enough tears, I want more. I want to be able to say, "Do you know who I'm crying for? Johnny O'Clock! Do you know who he was? The smartest man in the world." I know, because he told me so. "Johnny O'Clock's not a fool," he said. "No fool!" That's why he's dead... because he's no fool!
[Nancy quickly turns to hide her head as she wants to cry in peace. After a long pause, Johnny throws the gun on the ground, it making a loud thud]
Nancy Hobbs : [running to Johnny's side to embrace him while Koch picks up the gun] Johnny, Johnny...
Johnny O'Clock : [matter-of-factly to Koch] Well, it looks like it's going to be a hot day.
Inspector Koch : Not too hot.
Johnny O'Clock : Wanna bet?
Inspector Koch : Bet? I'll lay ya odds.
[Nancy and Koch support Johnny on either side as the three of them exit the room together]
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Johnny O'Clock : Anything else you wanna know?
Nancy Hobbs : Anything else I ought to know?
Johnny O'Clock : Close the book. She was a nice kid. Let it go at that.
Nancy Hobbs : The words don't go with the music!
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Nancy Hobbs : Everything's a fake.
