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"A guy without a fortune! A girl with too much past!"
"A MAN - Trying to run away from his past... A WOMAN - Trying to escape her future!"
"Meta Carson: For a man who appears to be clever, you can certainly act like an idiot."
"Marny: Two things I can smell inside a hundred feet. Burning hamburger and a romance."
"Don't try to pay me off with pitch handed to you with this cheap piece of baggage."
"[to Jeff] She must be quite a dame. A wild goose with 40 G's...You know, for a smart guy, that Sterling sure trusts you, don't he?"
"A dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle."
"[to Jeff] You dirty, double-crossing rat."
"I never told you I was anything but what I am. You just wanted to imagine I was. That's why I left you. Now we're back to stay."
"You can't make deals with a dead man, Jeff."
"[to Jeff] Look I crossed you once. I know better than to try a second time."
"[to Kathie] You dirty little phony. Go on lie some more. Tell me how you handled things for me in San Francisco. Tell me it was all Joe's idea. Go on, Kathie, show me how you're gonna squirm your way out this time. What a sucker you must think I am. I took you back when you came whimpering and crawling. I should have kicked your teeth in. No, I'm not going to. Not now Kathie. We're gonna let the law push you around...You're going to take the rap and play along. You're gonna make every exact move I tell ya. If you don't, I'll kill ya. And I'll promise you one thing. It won't be quick. I'll break you first. You won't be able to answer a telephone or open a door without thinking: 'This is it.' And when it comes, it still won't be quick. And it won't be pretty. You can take your choice."
"[to Jeff] You'll never be happy until you square yourself."
"My feelings? About ten years ago, I hid them somewhere and haven't been able to find them."
"When you see her, you'll understand better."
"And cheer up Kathie. You'll get out of it all right. You always have."
"[to Kathie] Did it take much persuasion to make you say I killed Fisher? Come on, feed my ego. Tell me he beat ya, tell me he had to drag every word out of ya."
"You see, I've got the files that were in your briefcase. I also know the address of the Treasury Department. That's the theory, isn't it? Keep the files away from the Treasury boys. Save Whit from doing ten years in a federal pen. Now you correct me if I make a mistake...You get the files and you also get Eels' body, in case you want to keep it from the cops...I want the affidavit that Meta put in Eels' safe when she took the files out. The lie that somebody put on paper that I killed a guy named Jack Fisher. Cause you see, I only buried him. And you don't get the gas for being the undertaker...And you won't need Whit. All you need is Meta to unlock that safe in Eels' office. I hope Meta's still around."
"I think I'm in a frame...I don't know. All I can see is the frame. I'm going in there now to look at the picture."
"[to Meta] If you'll drop this Junior League patter, we may get this conversation down to where it belongs."
"[to Whit] You liked me because you could use me. You could use me because I was smart. I'm not smart anymore. I run a gas station."
"I wasn't sorry for him or sore at her. I wasn't anything."
"It was meeting her somewhere like in the first times. There was still that something about her that got me - a kind of magic or whatever it was. I held her and we could laugh because we were together again. We'd played it smart and forgotten nothing. Forgotten nothing except one thing. He had followed her."
"We found a little movie house in North Beach. We were on the run. We went to places we never would have seen in our lives. And after a while, we grew a little more sure of ourselves. We drifted back to more familiar places. Ball parks and the race tracks. Why not? After all, there was one chance in a million we'd bump into our past."
"Regis Toomey - Det. Sgt. Gillespie"
"Art Baker - Det. Lt. Cooley"
"Wallace Ford - Stranger in Empire State Hotel Lobby"
"Bill Goodwin - House detective of Empire State Hotel"
"Norman Lloyd - Mr. Garmes"
"Rhonda Fleming - Mary Carmichael"
"Paul Harvey - Dr. Hanish"
"Steven Geray - Dr. Graff"
"John Emery - Dr. Fleurot"
"Leo G. Carroll - Dr. Murchison"
"Michael Chekhov - Dr. Alexander 'Alex' Brulov"
"Gregory Peck - Dr. Anthony Edwardes / John Ballantyne"
"Ingrid Bergman - Dr. Constance Petersen"
"The Maddest Love that ever possessed a woman"
"Will he Kiss me or Kill me?"
"The old must make way for the new, especially when the old is suspected of senility."
"[with his revolver pointed at Constance] You're an excellent analyst, Dr. Peterson, but a rather stupid woman."
"What is there for you to see? We both know that the mind of a woman in love is operating on the lowest level of the intellect!"
"There's lots of happiness in working hard. Maybe the most."
"My dear girl, you can not keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there."
"Any husband of Constance is a husband of mine, so to speak."
"You grant me I know more than you, but on the other hand, you know more than me. Women's talk. Bah!"
"Women make the best psychoanalysts until they fall in love. After that they make the best patients."
"Good night and happy dreams... which we will analyze at breakfast."
"I'm here as your doctor only. It has nothing to do with love. [John kisses her and they embrace each other tightly] Nothing at all. Nothing at all..."
"Doctor, as an analyst you annoy me."