The Big Steal (1949)

Robert Mitchum: Lt. Duke Halliday

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• Lt. Duke Halliday : [running out of bullets]  It'll be getting dark soon. I hate the thought of spending the night with an empty revolver.

  Joan Graham : There's always me.

  Lt. Duke Halliday : Tonight you gotta pick?

• Lt. Duke Halliday : [to Joan]  I'm the kind of guy who doesn't like to turn around, Chiquita. Besides, that there's a guy behind me with a gun. Remember?

• Lt. Duke Halliday : Every time I get in tight spot with Blake I let goats loose.

• Lt. Duke Halliday : [about the policeman]  Come on! Get this guy out of my neck.

  Joan Graham : Get him off yourself, you speak Spanish.

  Lt. Ruiz : [in Spanish]  Miss, do you know this man?

  Joan Graham : [in Spanish]  I've never seen him before.

  Lt. Duke Halliday : What did you say to him?

  Joan Graham : I've told him that we're complete strangers.

  Lt. Duke Halliday : [in Spanish to the police officer]  No, no. This is my woman... my wife.

  Joan Graham : Wait a minute!

  Lt. Ruiz : [in Spanish]  Then both of you come to the Inspector General office.

• Lt. Duke Halliday : Where's Fiske?

  Joan Graham : Taking the parrot for a walk.

  Lt. Duke Halliday : You wouldn't be his wife, would you?

  Joan Graham : No, I wouldn't!

  Lt. Duke Halliday : Mmm-hmm!

  Joan Graham : [taking offense]  I don't like the 'Mmm-hmm.' I'm not his wife!

  Lt. Duke Halliday : If you were, I wouldn't be saying 'Mmm-hmm!'

• Joan Graham : ...I gave Jim $2000. I thought it was a fortune.

  Lt. Duke Halliday : Don't tell me he clipped you?

  Joan Graham : He called it 'borrowing.'

  Lt. Duke Halliday : No security?

  Joan Graham : Unless you call a nice smile security.

  Lt. Duke Halliday : That's all you got for your money?

  Joan Graham : Certainly was.

  Lt. Duke Halliday : [sarcastically]  I'll tell you what, Chiquita, you believe me, and I'll believe you.

• Joan Graham : Stop calling me chiquita. You don't say that to girls you don't even know.

  Lt. Duke Halliday : Where I learned Spanish you do.

• Joan Graham : One thing I can't figure out: you have a gun. Why didn't you use it?

  Lt. Duke Halliday : In the Army they *hang* you for shooting captains.

  Joan Graham : That's kind of a crazy notion.

• Lt. Duke Halliday : It's the country, you know. She's been watching the Mexican women.

  Col. Ortega : Our women are like all women: they listen, they smile, they agree... and then they don't.