Fast and Loose (1939)
Robert Montgomery: Joel Sloane
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Quotes
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Joel Sloane : [Talking to himself in bathroom mirror] I don't know who you are, my friend, but if you stand still, I'll shave you.
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Joel Sloane : [to Garda] If you see a wolf at the door, beat it. Tell him he's got the wrong address.
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Joel Sloane : [to Garda as he's leaving] If a customer comes with money in his pocket, shoot first and ask questions afterward.
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Nicholas Torrent : [Referring to Sloane's inappropriate tirade] I must apologize for Wilkes, Mr. Sloane. He's been librarian here so long he probably imagines this is his property. Poor chap! I think he's beginning to lose his mind.
Joel Sloane : It was a hundred miles away a minute ago.
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Garda Sloane : Well, I'm going downstairs and get a paper.
Joel Sloane : For what?
Garda Sloane : Oh, just to see if any of our friends have been murdered this morning.
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'Lucky' Nolan : [Resentfully] You have a peculiar genius for mixing in my affairs.
Joel Sloane : You have some peculiar affairs.
'Lucky' Nolan : [Threateningly] I'm going to show you the unpleasant side of snooping, Mr. Sloane.
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'Lucky' Nolan : [after Joel gets the jump on Nolan and takes away his gun] I see you don't fight fair, Mr. Sloane.
Joel Sloane : Now I'll tell you what you're going to do. You're going to call up and instruct those men to let my wife go. She's to phone me from outside. I don't want to sound melodramatic, Mr. Nolan, but to save my wife any discomfort, I would cheerfully kill a dozen guys like you.
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Garda Sloane : Joel! Joel! The phone is ringing.
Joel Sloane : Well, what'd you expect it to do - sing?
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Garda Sloane : And when that didn't work, they lit matches to my butt, and then they tried the Chinese water torture.
Joel Sloane : You know, darling, you haven't visited your mother in a long time.
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Joel Sloane : Ho-hum.
