"Now this is beginning to make sense, in a screwy sort of a way. I get dragged in and get money shoved at me. I get pushed out and get money shoved at me. Everybody pushes me in, everybody pushes me out. Nobody wants me to DO anything. Okay, put a check in the mail. I cost a lot not to do anything. I get restless. Throw in a trip to Mexico."

"He was doubled up on his face in that bag-of-old-clothes position that always means the same thing: he had been killed by an amateur. Or, by somebody who wanted it to look like an amateur job. Nobody else would hit a man that many times with a sap."

"Skip the water. Make that one with scotch. It'll save time."

"Claire Trevor - Helen Grayle/Velma Valento"

"These men had won their struggle for power, they now ruled all of Germany, but still they had trouble with their oldest and most persistent enemy: the truth. They found that truth does not die easily, and so they decided to "abolish" truth."

"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."

"They had split the nation into a hundred pieces, and then one by one, they had destroyed the pieces. Over these broken pieces the Nazis rode into power, one party, one nation, one religion."

"Miles Mander - Mr. Grayle"

"'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.'"

"I don't know what you talked him into. Was it murder or something serious?"

"Ernie Adams - bartender at "Florian's""

"Lizabeth Scott - Antonia "Toni" Marachek"

"Kirk Douglas - Walter O'Neil"

"Roman Bohnen - Mr. O'Neil"

"Van Heflin - 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."

"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."

"Judith Anderson - Mrs. Ivers"

"Barbara Stanwyck - Martha Ivers"

"Look! I don't like to get pushed around. I don't like people I like to be pushed around. I don't like anybody to get pushed around."

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

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

"Janis Wilson - young Martha Ivers"

"[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."

"Darryl Hickman - young Sam Masterson"

"Mickey Kuhn - young Walter O'Neil"

"There is no "Aryan race" – and more important – there is no "master race.""

"And Hans, who was going to rule the world, got only a little patch of Normandy that he could call his own."

"So let's not be suckers. We must not allow the freedom or dignity of any man to be threatened by any act or word. Let's be selfish about it. Let's forget about "we" and "they", let's think about us!"

"Hans was an expert at brutality by this time; and Hitler had decided to use Hans and his brutality against other peoples: The Czechs, The Poles, The French, the Russians. But in the crucial test of war, Hitler's race theories didn't pay off. His "pure-blooded super men" were defeated by the "mongrel armies" he despised: by the British at El-Alamein; by the Russians at Stalingrad; and then on D-Day by American soldiers of every color and religion, who smashed across the Normandy beaches, and drove on through to the heart of Germany. For the misguided Germans who had swallowed the Nazi bait, the Nazi game did not pay off. The continent of Europe was strewn with millions of German bodies, "pure, Aryan bodies":"

"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."

"Byron Foulger - Lambert"

"Desperate... Hunted... Yet so in love! This is their story... The one the screaming headlines never told!"

"The headlines screamed their crime... but they told only half the story. Would YOU give these kids another chance?"

"WE'RE IN A JAM! You're crazy to stick to me... but I'd rather die than let you go!"

"We're in a Jam!"

"Harry Harvey - Hagenheimer"

"Marie Bryant - Singer"

"Ian Wolfe - Hawkins"

"Will Wright - Mobley"

"Will Lee - Jeweler"

"William Phipps - Young Farmer"

"Howard Da Silva - Chicamaw "One-Eye" Mobley"

"James Nolan - Schreiber"