The Crimson Kimono (1959)

Anna Lee: Mac, McAllister

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Quotes 

• Mac : [to Det. Bancroft, after she has eagerly started drinking from his bottle of bourbon]  Love does much... but bourbon does everything.

• [last lines] 

  Mac : Come on, Charles, let's belt a few, hmm?

  Det. Sgt. Charlie Bancroft : Mac, you're a pearl.

  Mac : Thank you, dear boy. But I prefer something made by man... to something made by an oyster.

• Mac : [said to Chris, as she puffs on a cigar]  Smoking a cigarette is like drinking beer out of a thimble. A man is only a man, my dear, but a good cigar is a smoke.

• Christine Downs : Were you ever in love with a man from a different world?

  Mac : Ah, many, many times!

  Christine Downs : Well, was he, uh, someone of a different race?

  Mac : [pauses]  There was a Hindu in Bombay...

  Christine Downs : Was he sensitive about the difference between you?

  Mac : [laughs]  HE wasn't... but his father looked down his imperious nose at me.

• Christine Downs : I've heard so many colorful stories about your work.

  Mac : You'll find my murals in Skid Row's finest bars and brothels.

• Mac : Love is like a battle, Chris. Somebody has to get a bloody nose.

• Det. Sgt. Charlie Bancroft : [picking up the phone]  Homicide. Bancroft.

  Mac : [clearly drunk, drinking from a small bottle of bourbon]  Macalister reporting - front and center.

  Det. Sgt. Charlie Bancroft : Huh?

  Mac : There's nothing like 100-proof heaven to make the mind clear, and the... and the memory sharp.