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"You know something, Verna, if I turn my back for long enough for Big Ed to put a hole in it, there'd be a hole in it. [he laughs] Big Ed ... great big Ed. Y'know why they call 'im that? 'Cause his ideas are big. One day he's gonna get a really big one ... about me. And it'll be his last."
"You're just lonesome, lonesome, like me...Verna? All I ever had was Ma...I was, uh, I was just walkin' around out there talkin' to mine...well, my old lady never had anything, always on the run, always on the move - some life. First there was my old man, died kickin' and screamin' in a nuthouse. Then my brother. And after that, it was takin' care of me. Always tryin' to put me on top. Top of the world, she used to say. And then, times when I was losin' my grip, there she'd be right behind me, pushin' me back up again. And now...That was a good feelin' out there, talkin' to her, just me and Ma. Good feelin'. Liked it. Maybe I am nuts."
"Come out with your hands up, the man says! How do you like THAT,MA? Here's my answer, you dirty......"
"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
"James Cagney - Arthur "Cody" Jarrett"
"Virginia Mayo - Verna Jarrett"
"Edmond O'Brien - Hank Fallon aka "Vic Pardo""
"Margaret Wycherly - "Ma" Jarrett"
"Steve Cochran - "Big Ed" Somers"
"Ford Rainey - Zuckie"
"John Archer - Philip Evans"
"Wally Cassell - "Cotton" Valletti"
"Fred Clark - Daniel "The Trader" Winston"
"Ian MacDonald - "Bo" Creel"
"Paul Guilfoyle - Roy Parker"
"G. Pat Collins - "Reader" Curtin"
"Fred Coby - "Happy" Taylor"
"Pick up the pieces folks, Jimmy's in action again!"
"Searing the screen like the death-blast of a sub-machine gun!!!"
"JAMES CAGNEY in His New Warner Bros. Hit"
"JAMES CAGNEY is red hot in "WHITE HEAT""
"His New Hit from Warner Bros."
"New hit! - New heights!"
"JAMES CAGNEY in his new Warner hit "White Heat""
"A Warner Bros. Smash Hit!"
"Our mission here is over, gentlemen. I would like to thank you all for the way you have ...carried out your duties. Mr Gerard! I told you to clear the decks for action in ten minutes! [Gerard looks at Hornblower apprehensively] You did it in eight."
"Three months ago, the Spanish viceroy sent a diplomat who warned me to curb my political ambitions. In answer, I sent part of him back to Panama - his head, to be precise."
"A burning town is a magnificent sight!"
"[On his way to Paris with Hornblower to be executed as a spy] Well, I expected to lose my leg, sir... but not all the way up to the neck."
"Wherever adventure beckons, you'll find Captain Horatio Hornblower!"
"The sun never sets on his world of adventure."
"Gregory Peck as Capt. Horatio Hornblower, R.N."
"Virginia Mayo as Lady Barbara Wellesley (Duke of Wellingtons sister)"
"Robert Beatty as 1st. Lt. William Bush"
"Terence Morgan as 2nd Lt. Gerard, an officer on the Lydia"
"Moultrie Kelsall as 3rd. Lt. Crystal, an officer on the Lydia"
"James Kenney as Midshipman Longley"
"James Robertson Justice as Seaman Quist, who helps Hornblower and Bush escape"
"Denis O'Dea as Rear Admiral Sir Rodney 'Mucho Pomposo' Leighton"
"Richard Hearne as Polwheal, Hornblower's steward"
"Michael Dolan as Surgeon Gundarson"
"Stanley Baker as Mr. Harrison, Hornblower's bosun (Boatswain)"
"Alec Mango as El Supremo (Don Julian Alvarado)"
"Christopher Lee as the Spanish captain of the Natividad"
"Back in this country, the boys who had returned from overseas begin to find out that the world has moved on during the time they spent in France...Everywhere, things have changed but particularly in New York. The old Broadway is only a memory. Gone are many of the famous landmarks, for already, America is feeling the effects of Prohibition. There is a concentrated effort at readjustment to normal peacetime activities, but unemployment coming in the wake of the wartime boom is beginning to grip the country and the soldiers find their return to face - on a different front - the same old struggle, the struggle to survive."
"And so the Eddie of this story joins the thousands and thousands of other Eddies throughout America. He becomes a part of a criminal army - an army that was born of a marriage between an unpopular law and an unwilling public. Liquor is the password in this army. And it's a magic password that spells the dollar sign as it spreads from city to city, from state to state. The public is beginning to look upon the bootlegger as something of an adventuresome hero, a modern crusader who deals in bottles instead of battles. And so, because of a grotesque situation, this new kind of army grows and grows, always gaining new recruits who care nothing about tomorrow just so long as money is easy today."
"1924. By now, America is well-launched into an era of amazing madness. Bootlegging has grown from small, individual effort to big business embodying huge coalitions and combines. The chase after huge profits is followed closely by their inevitable partners: corruption, violence, and murder. A new and horrible tool appears - the tommy - a light, deadly wasp-like machine gun, and murder henceforth is parceled out in wholesale lots."
"1929. As the dizzy decade nears its end, the country is stock-market crazy. The great and the humble, the rich man and the working man, the housewife and the shopgirl, all take their daily flyer in the market. And no one seems to lose. Then like a bombshell comes that never-to-be-forgotten Black Tuesday, October 29, confusion spreads through the canyons of New York City's financial district and men stare wild-eyed at the spectacle of complete ruin. More than sixteen and a half million shares change hands in a single day of frenzied selling. The paper fortunes built up over the past few years crumble into nothing before this disaster which is to touch every man, woman, and child in America."
"Finally comes the national referendum on repeal. Tired of years of violence, corruption, and loss of personal liberty, Americans go to the polls and overwhelmingly rout the dry forces. After thirteen years, Prohibition is dead, leaving in its wake a criminal element used to wealth and power but unable for the most part to cope with a new determination by an aroused public that law and order should once more reign."
"I always say, when you got a job to do, get somebody else to do it."
"America's Most Colorful Era!"
"The land of the free gone wild! The heyday of the hotcha! The shock-crammed days G-men took ten whole years to lick!"
"1920 . . . Bootleggers, Jazz, Babe Ruth, Speakeasies, Jack Dempsey, Dames, Molls, Easy Living - Quick Dying . . . the torrid . . . blazing . . . wild . . . lush . . . lurid - ROARING TWENTIES ! ! !"
"James Cagney - Eddie Bartlett"
"Priscilla Lane - Jean Sherman"
"Humphrey Bogart - George Hally"
"Gladys George - Panama Smith"
"Jeffrey Lynn - Lloyd Hart"
"Frank McHugh - Danny Green"
"George Meeker - Harold Masters"
"Paul Kelly - Nick Brown"
"Elisabeth Risdon - Mrs. Sherman"
"Edward Keane - Pete Henderson"
"Joseph Sawyer - Sergeant Pete Jones"
"Abner Biberman - Lefty"
"John Hamilton - Judge"
"Robert Elliott - First Detective"
"Vera Lewis - Mrs. Gray"