Inspector Hornleigh (1939)

Gordon Harker: Inspector Hornleigh

Quotes 

• Inspector Hornleigh : Where is Mr Gordon?

  Sam Holt aka Keyhole Charlie : In the bar, Inspector. I'll take you along

  Inspector Hornleigh : Thank you - it isn't necessary. I never had any difficulty finding my way to a bar yet.

• Chancellor : But it seems incredible to me that anybody should be allowed to rob the Chancellor of the Exchequer with impunity.

  Inspector Hornleigh : Quite so, sir. Generally the other way around.

• Inspector Hornleigh : You pestiferous elongated flat-footed bald-headed bunch of haggis. Why didn't you stay on your own native heath tossing yer sporran... instead of unloading yourself on the long-suffering English?

• Sergeant Bingham : I wonder what he was?

  Inspector Hornleigh : Hotel porter

  Sergeant Bingham : Ah, hotel porter? I thought that

  [pause] 

  Sergeant Bingham : How do you know?

  Inspector Hornleigh : This piece of chalk. It's got blacking on it. He used it to chalk the room numbers on the boots he cleaned. See?

  Sergeant Bingham : Oh, marvelous! All life's problems solved.

  Inspector Hornleigh : Well, I have been wrong...

  Sergeant Bingham : Last week's football pools for instance?

  Inspector Hornleigh : That! Why the whole of Scotland Yard couldn't deduce what Chelsea will do next!

• Inspector Hornleigh : Ever hear of telepathy, sergeant?

  Sergeant Bingham : Telepathy? It's-a-it's what we in Scotland call the 'second sight.' Ah-ha-lots of us possess the gift.

  Inspector Hornleigh : Nearly all savage races have it.