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"That's life. Whichever way you turn, Fate sticks out a foot to trip you."
"Yes. Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me for no good reason at all."
"[as narrator] What kind of dames thumb rides? Sunday School teachers?"
"Money. You know what that is, the stuff you never have enough of. Little green things with George Washington's picture that men slave for, commit crimes for, die for. It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world than anything else we ever invented, simply because there's too little of it."
"So when this drunk handed me a ten spot after a request, I couldn't get very excited. What was it I asked myself? A piece of paper crawling with germs. Couldn't buy anything I wanted."
"[as narrator] Until then I had done things my way, but from then on something stepped in and shunted me off to a different destination than the one I'd picked for myself."
"[voiceover] It wasn't much of a club really. You know the kind. A joint where you could have a sandwich and a few drinks and run interference for your girl on the dance floor."
"[as narrator] As I drove off, it was still raining and the drops streaked down the windshield like tears."
"I'd hate to see a fellow as young as you wind up sniffin' that perfume Arizona hands out free to murderers!"
"Say who do you think you're talking to - a hick? Listen Mister, I been around, and I know a wrong guy when I see one. What'd you do, kiss him with a wrench?"
"Charles Haskell Jr.: I was tussling with the most dangerous animal in the world, a woman."
"This movie from Hollywood's poverty row, shot in six days, filled with technical errors and ham-handed narrative, starring a man who can only pout and a woman who can only sneer, should have faded from sight soon after it was released in 1945. And yet it lives on, haunting and creepy, an embodiment of the guilty soul of film noir. No one who has seen it has easily forgotten it."
"He went searching for love... but Fate forced a DETOUR to Revelry... Violence... Mystery!"
"Tom Neal — Al Roberts"
"Ann Savage — Vera"
"Claudia Drake — Sue Harvey"
"Edmund MacDonald — Charles Haskell, Jr."
"Tim Ryan — the Nevada Diner Proprietor"
"Esther Howard — Holly, Diner Waitress"
"Don Brodie — the Used Car Salesman"
"Pat Gleason — Joe, truck driver"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.