Sam Jaffe
(as Dr. Francis Hunter)
Dr. Francis Hunter:
[In an alcoholic haze to Mike] You'll spoil the rhythm of Dr. Hunter's famous prescription for pickling the heart: one injection every 15 minutes.
[He finishes a shot of whiskey, and the bartender pours him three more]
Dr. Francis Hunter: The rhythm is very important.
[He finishes a shot of whiskey, and the bartender pours him three more]
Dr. Francis Hunter: The rhythm is very important.
Peter Lorre
(as Toady)
Burt Lancaster
(as Mike Davis)
Toady:
Consider the diamond itself for instance. Carbon, soot, chemically speaking. And yet the hardest of all matters. So hard, in fact, that whatever it touches must suffer: glass, steel, the human soul.
Mike Davis: Why don't you sell your rug someplace else?
Mike Davis: Why don't you sell your rug someplace else?
Peter Lorre
(as Toady)
Toady:
I am here, free as the wind, fountain of extraordinary knowledge, splendidly corrupt and eager to be of profitable service.
Burt Lancaster
(as Mike Davis)
Mike Davis:
[to Thompson about his war experience] I ent to bed with a 75mm for three years, but now i sleep alone.
Burt Lancaster
(as Mike Davis)
Mike Davis:
[to Thompson about his war experience] I went to bed with a 75mm for three years, but now i sleep alone.