Christmas Eve (1947)

John Litel: Joe Bland

Quotes 

• Joe Bland, FBI Agent : I never drink when I'm working.

  Mario Torio : Thanks for warning me.

• Joe Bland, FBI Agent : Look, fella, you're not my pigeon. I didn't fly down here to nail you.

• Joe Bland, FBI Agent : Back in Nuremberg there's a piece of rope waiting for that lug. He salted away plenty down here before the war. But, we're not interested in his dough. We just want to loop those 13 knots around this tricky devil's neck and let him jump off into space. Everybody wanted him. But, he slipped through the backdoor of Europe.

• Joe Bland, FBI Agent : Why don't you read the New York papers?