The Naked City (1948)

Barry Fitzgerald: Lt. Dan Muldoon

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• Muldoon : I don't know anything about medicine, doctor, but that's one prescription that never cured anything.

• Muldoon : No, the picnic is over, you've told your last lie. You're knee deep in stolen jewlery. You're involved the the Dexter Murder. You've been trying to obstruct justice all along the line. Now you're gonna tell me what I want to know or so help me if it's the last thing I do in this department, I'll get you twenty years. Now that's the truth Sonny Boy, and you know I'm not bluffing. Who's Henderson? Who's Henderson?

  Frank Niles : Stoneman! It's Doctor Stoneman.

• Muldoon : What can you tell me about Mr. Niles' Business?

  Perelli : He ain't got a business. It's a dodge. No credit rating. Dropped from his university club for non-payment of dues. Still owes a food and liquor bill of hundred and ten dollars and eighty three cents.

• Muldoon : There's your city, Halloran. Take a good look. Jean Dexter is dead, and the answer must be somewhere down there...

• Muldoon : Lovely young girl, isn't she?

  Henry Fowler : Yeah.

  Muldoon : Lovely long legs.

  Henry Fowler : Yeah!

  Muldoon : Keep looking at 'em.

  Henry Fowler : Pleasure.

  [Fowler leaves to follow Ruth] 

• Muldoon : After Niles has been rifling through his valise apparently to check whether a supposed burglar has struck: "He got it didn't they?

  Frank Niles : Looking crestfallen: "No, there's nothing missing. I don't have any valuables".

  Muldoon : Suspiciously: "What were you looking for so hard just now - your BVD's?"