Pickup on South Street

"[after first kiss with Candy] Sometimes you look for oil, you hit a gusher."

"I know you pinched me three times and got me convicted three times and made me a three time loser. And I know you took an oath to put me away for life. Well you're trying awful hard with all this patriotic eye-wash, but get this: I didn't grift that film and you can't prove I did! And if I said I did, you'd slap that fourth rap across my teeth no matter what promises you made!"

"So you're a Red, who cares? Your money's as good as anybody else's."

"[to Capt. Tiger] You're sittin' on a hot rock. I'd like to see you jump!"

"Listen, Mister. When I come in here tonight, you seen an old clock runnin' down. I'm tired. I'm through. Happens to everybody sometime. It'll happen to you too, someday. With me it's a little bit of everything. Backaches and headaches. I can't sleep nights. It's so hard to get up in the morning, and get dressed and walk the streets. Climb the stairs. I go right on doin' it! Well, what am I gonna do, knock it? I have to go on makin' a livin'... so I can die. But even a fancy funeral ain't worth waitin' fer if I gotta do bus'ness with crumbs like you."

"Ask a silly question, you get a dopey look."

"Capt. Dan Tiger: You'll always be a two-bit cannon. And when they pick you up in the gutter dead, you're hand'll be in a drunk's pocket."

"Richard Widmark - Skip McCoy"

"Jean Peters - Candy"

"Thelma Ritter - Moe Williams"

"Murvyn Vye - Captain Dan Tiger"

"Richard Kiley - Joey"

"Willis Bouchey - Zara"

"Milburn Stone - Winoki"

"Parley Baer - Headquarters Communist in Chair"

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

"Stuart Randall - Detective"