Key Largo (film)

"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."

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

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

"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!"

"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."

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

"[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."

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

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

"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."

"Edward "Toots" Bass: I say smack her and let it go at that."

"Richard "Curly" Hoff: She is a lush, the lady...after she bends the elbow a few times, she begins to see things—rats, roaches, bats, you know...a sock in the kisser is the only thing that will bring her out of it."

"Hold your course, you're headed straight for Key Largo, Kay Largo..."

"Key Largo, a lonely island off the coast of Florida, sultry, heat-ridden, cloaked in the strange menace of the sea. But stranger still is the destiny that brings these people to this remote outpost, to be held at bay with a price on their lives, by a man with a price on his head."

"Humphrey Bogart — Frank McCloud"

"Edward G. Robinson — Johnny Rocco"

"Lauren Bacall — Nora Temple"

"Harry Lewis — Edward "Toots" Bass"

"Thomas Gomez — Richard "Curly" Hoff"

"Lionel Barrymore — James Temple"

"William Haade — Ralph Feeney"

"Claire Trevor — Gaye Dawn"