Deadline at Dawn (1946)
Bill Williams: Alex Winkler
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Quotes
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Alex Winkler : [while dancing] Do you think it might rain and cool off?
June Goffe : [detached] Such things have been known to happen.
Alex Winkler : [after a pause] A lot of nice people dancing here, isn't there?
June Goffe : [cynically] This is a post office, son, full of second-class matter.
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Alex Winkler : [speaking to June about his father] Three or four haircuts ago - that's the last time I seen him.
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Alex Winkler : [sighs in the back of Gus' cab]
Gus Hoffman : Beg pardon?
Alex Winkler : [distracted] What?
Gus Hoffman : You sigh like the end of summer. Troubled?
Alex Winkler : Personal.
Gus Hoffman : Oh... personal. That's killed a lot of people in its day.
Alex Winkler : Yes.
Gus Hoffman : [after Alex gets out of the cab] By the way, if it's not too personal, what was that all about down there?
Alex Winkler : Oh, uh, uh, personal.
Gus Hoffman : All right, I'll buy it back. Forget I asked. Good night.
Alex Winkler : Good night.
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June Goffe : [in Edna's apartment] We'd better wait in the dark a minute. Do you hear anything?
Alex Winkler : Only your breathing.
June Goffe : Is that what that is?
Alex Winkler : Yes, and mine.
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[repeated line]
Alex Winkler : [pointing to his head] Non compos mentis.
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June Goffe : [walking into Edna's apartment and seeing that she has been strangled] I hear the whistle blowing.
[after a pause]
June Goffe : Who did it? You?
Alex Winkler : You mean you think I did it?
June Goffe : Didn't you?
Alex Winkler : Don't look at me like that! I think you'd better leave.
June Goffe : Yes. Well, this is New York... where "hello" means "goodbye".