"I caught the blackjack right behind my ear. A black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in. It had no bottom. I felt pretty good - like an amputated leg."

"Murvyn Vye - Captain Dan Tiger"

"Haunted by a lovely face... hunted for another's crime!"

"'Okay Marlowe,' I said to myself. 'You're a tough guy. You've been sapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm until you're crazy as a couple of waltzing mice. Now let's see you do something really tough - like putting your pants on.'"

"Judith Anderson - Mrs. Ivers"

"Roman Bohnen - Mr. O'Neil"

"Janis Wilson - young Martha Ivers"

"Lizabeth Scott - Antonia "Toni" Marachek"

"Van Heflin - Sam Masterson"

"Kirk Douglas - Walter O'Neil"

"Darryl Hickman - young Sam Masterson"

"Hotel clerk: There's half as many baths as there is rooms. Half the rooms has a bath and half hasn't; that's one way of looking at it. Another is - for each two rooms one has a bath in the middle and the other hasn't - or - you might say - there's a half a bath to each of two rooms."

"[Offering a hotel room Gideon Bible] I'll loan you a book for a couple of cigarettes if you don't mind what kind of book it is."

"Mrs. Ivers: [to Mr. O'Neill] I know why you offered to tutor Martha. I know why you've made Walter do his daily lessons with her. I know why you want him to live here. A scholarship for Walter, that's why! But I'm not a foundation, Mr. O'Neil. I don't care if Walter drives a truck or goes to Harvard. Probably be a lot happier driving a truck."

"Barbara Stanwyck - Martha Ivers"

"I missed a bus once and I was lucky. I wanted to see if I could be lucky twice."

"Mickey Kuhn - young Walter O'Neil"

"A night of murder the police won't let him forget! The only key to his safety... a woman's face he can't remember!"

"Otto Kruger - Jules Amthor"

"She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud. I gave her a drink. She was a gal who'd take a drink, if she had to knock you down to get the bottle."

"George E. Stone - Willie - Police Desk Clerk"

"Go ahead and hit me, Sam. I've got it coming."

"Stuart Randall - Detective"

"Kenny O'Morrison - Moore"

"Darryl Hickman - Shanley"

"James Edwards - Luther Hawkins"

"Percy Helton - Red"

"Wallace Ford - Gus"

"Hal Fieberling - "Tiger" Nelson"

"David Clarke - "Gunboat" Johnson"

"Audrey Totter - Julie Thompson"

"Sherry Peatty: [to George] It isn't fair. I never had anybody but you. Not a real husband. Not even a man. Just a bad joke without a punch line."

"George Tobias - Tiny"

"Alan Baxter - Little Boy"

"Maurice: You have my sympathies, then. You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else - the perfect mediocrity; no better, no worse. Individuality's a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel confident. You know, I've often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They are admired and hero-worshiped, but there is always present an underlying wish to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory."

"Phillip Pine - Tony Souza"

"Dorothy Adams - Mrs. Ruthie O'Reilly"

"Kola Kwariani - Maurice Oboukhoff"

"Well, that's the way it is. You're a fighter, you gotta fight."

"Joe Sawyer - Mike O'Reilly"

"James Edwards - track parking attendant"

"Timothy Carey - Nikki Arane"

"I Want a Man... Not a Human Punching Bag!"

"Elisha Cook Jr. - George Peatty"