Austin Pendleton credited as playing...
Earl Williams
- Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer: Tell me, Mr. Williams, were you unhappy as a child?
- Earl Williams: Not really. I had a perfectly normal childhood.
- Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer: I see. You wanted to kill your father and sleep with you mother.
- Earl Williams: [to Sheriff Hartman] If he's gonna talk dirty ...
- Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer: When you were in grammar school, did you practice self-abuse?
- Earl Williams: No, sir. I don't believe in it. I would never abuse myself or anybody else. I love people. I love all people.
- 'Honest Pete' Hartman Sheriff of Clark County: I suppose that cop committed suicide!
- Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer: Let us get back to masturbation. Did your father ever catch you in the act?
- Earl Williams: Oh, my father was - was never home. He was a conductor on the Chicago-Northwestern.
- Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer: Very significant. Your father wore a uniform, just like that policeman. And when he pulled out that gun, an obvious phallic symbol, you thought he was your father, and he was going to use it to hurt your mother.
- Earl Williams: [to Sheriff Hartman] He's crazy.
- Earl Williams: You don't have to answer this, Mollie, but is it true what they said in the papers?
- Mollie Malloy: Is what true?
- Earl Williams: That you were going to marry me on the gallows.
- Mollie Malloy: Well, if it's in the papers, it must be true. They wouldn't print a lie.