"Charlie! Charlie Winook and his family, Crawfish Island. Charlie's a prince of the Seminole Nation. His ancestors go back to the gods. He sells sea shells by the sea shore."

"[praying] Make a big wave. Send it down on us. Destroy us all if need be, but punish HIM."

"[to Johnny Rocco] You’re right, you shouldn’t have been deported, you should have been exterminated."

"[to Frank] If you want to find out how good you are at taking it, we'll accommodate you. But let me warn you. Toots is a little rusty. Might slip. And that'd be tooo baaad."

"Nothing to stop me from wiping you all out!"

"You'd give your left arm to nail me wouldn't you? I could see the headlines now, 'Local Deputy Captures Johnny Rocco'. Your picture'd be in all the papers. You might even get to tell on the newsreels how you pulled if off, yeah. Listen hick, I was too much for any big city police force to handle. It took the United States Government to pin a rap on me. And they won't make it stick. You hick! I'll be back pulling strings to get guys elected mayor and governor before you ever get a 10-buck raise. Yeah, how many of those guys in office owe everything to me. I made them. Yeah, I made 'em, just like a-like a tailor makes a suit of clothes. I take a nobody, see? Teach him what to say. Get his name in the papers and pay for his campaign expenses. Dish out a lotta groceries and coal. Get my boys to bring the voters out. And then count the votes over and over again till they added up right and he was elected. Yeah- then what happens? Did he remember when the going got tough, when the heat was on? No, he didn't wanna. All he wanted was to save his own dirty neck. . . . Yeah, `Public Enemy,' he calls me. Me, who gave him his `Public' all wrapped up with a fancy bow on it."

"After living in the USA for more than thirty-five years they called me an undesirable alien. Me. Johnny Rocco. Like I was a dirty Red or something!"

"One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for!"

"When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses."

"You don't like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don't you? If it doesn't stop, shoot it."

"Living is an art, it's not bookkeeping. It takes an awful lot of rehearsal for a man to get to be himself."

"Pedro de Cordoba - Arab Philosopher"

"Richard Erdman - Willie"

"Jimmy Lydon - Dudley Raoul Bostwick"

"Gale Page - Mary L."

"Paul Draper - Harry"

"James Barton - Kit Carson"

"Ward Bond - McCarthy"

"Broderick Crawford - Krupp"

"Jeanne Cagney - Kitty Duval"

"Wayne Morris - Tom"

"William Bendix - Nick"

"James Cagney - Joseph T."

"It's his most nerve-stretching thriller!"

"Joan Chandler - Janet Walker"

"Dick Hogan - David Kentley"

"Edith Evanson - Mrs. Wilson"

"Douglas Dick - Kenneth Lawrence"

"Constance Collier - Mrs. Atwater"

"Cedric Hardwicke - Mr. Kentley"

"Farley Granger - Phillip Morgan"

"John Dall - Brandon Shaw"

"James Stewart - Rupert Cadell"

"It begins with a shriek... It ends with a shot!"

"Nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock's Rope"

"I never strangled a chicken in my life!"

"I mean that tonight you’ve made me ashamed of every concept I ever had of superior or inferior beings. But I thank you for that shame, because now I know that we are each of us a separate human being, Brandon. With the right to live and work and think as individuals, but with an obligation to the society we live in. By what right do you dare to say that there's a superior few to which you belong? By what right did you decide that that boy in there was inferior and could be killed? Did you think you were God, Brandon? Is that what you thought when you choked the life out of him? Is that what you thought when you served food from his grave?! I don't know who you are but I know what you've done. You've murdered! You choked the life out of a fellow human being who could live and love as you never could, and never will again!"

"Brandon, till this very moment, this world and the people in it have always been dark and incomprehensible to me. I’ve tried to clear my way with logic and superior intellect. And you’ve thrown my own words right back in my face, Brandon. You were right, too. If nothing else, a man should stand by his words. But you’ve given my words a meaning that I never dreamed of! And you’ve tried to twist them into a cold, logical excuse for your ugly murder! Well, they never were that Brandon, and you can't make them that. There must have been something deep inside you from the very start that let you do this thing, but there’s always been something deep inside me, that would never let me do it – and would never let me be a party to it now."

"You're quite a good chicken strangler as I recall!"

"The power to kill could be just as satisfying as the power to create."

"I've always wished for more artistic talent. Well, murder can be art, too."

"Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them."

"Of course, he was a Harvard undergraduate. That might be grounds for justifiable homicide."

"Nobody commits a murder just for the experiment of committing it. Nobody except us."

"We killed for the sake of danger and for the sake of killing."

"The good Americans usually die young on the battlefield, don't they? Well, the Davids of the world merely occupy space, which is why he was the perfect victim for the perfect crime."

"Charles Bates - Roger Newton"

"Edna May Wonacott - Ann Newton"

"Wallace Ford - Det. Fred Saunders"