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Swede Andersen: Nobody can cheat me and get away with it. Nick Adams: He wasn't a bad sort of fella...easy enough to get along with. Lilly: Right then, I knew the boat had sailed and poor Ole had fallen in love with dynamite.

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Al: [after learning that the dinner menu is unavailable until 6] Everything we want's on the dinner. That the way you work it, huh? What do you do here nights? Max: They eat the dinner. They all come here and eat the big dinner. Manager: That's right. Al: You're a pretty bright boy, aren't ya?? Manager: Sure.

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Max: I'll tell ya what's gonna happen. We're gonna kill the Swede. You know big Swede that works over at that filling station? Manager: You mean Pete Lunn? Max: If that's what he calls himself. Comes in every night at six o'clock, don't he? Manager: Yes, if he comes. Al: We know all about that. Manager: What are ya gonna kill him for? What did Pete Lunn ever do to you? Max: He never had a chance to do anything to us. He never even seen us. Al: He's only gonna see us once. Manager: What are ya gonna kill him for? Max: We're killin' him for a friend.

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Swede: There's nothin' I can do about it. Nick: I could tell you what they look like. Swede: I don't want to know what they're like. Thanks for comin'. Nick: Don't you want me to go and see the police? Swede: No. That wouldn't do any good. Nick: Isn't there something I could do? Swede: There ain't anything to do. Nick: Couldn't you get out of town? Swede: No. I'm through with all that runnin' around. Nick: Why do they wanna kill ya? Swede: I did something wrong - once. Thanks for comin'.

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Reardon: Good morning, Stella. Stella: Good morning, dream boy.

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Swede: Do you like the fights? Kitty: I'm afraid I've never seen one. Swede: No kiddin'. Kitty: I hate brutality, Mr. Andersen. The idea of two men beating each other to a pulp makes me ill. Lilly: I saw all Swede's fights. Kitty: How wonderful of you! I could never bear to see a man I really cared for being hurt. [Kitty is called away, and slinks off] Swede: She's beautiful.

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Swede: You know what harps mean? Charleston: Angels play 'em. Swede: They mean Ireland. That's why they call them Mick's harps. Kitty's Irish. She give me this.

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Kitty: [To Big Jim] What'sa matter with you?...You're nervous. You're all in a sweat. Colfax: You keep your mouth shut if you don't want it slapped shut. You've been askin' for it lately. Swede: Hey! Colfax: Any objections? Swede: Yeah. Dum Dum: Keep out of this, Swede. She's his girl. Kitty: Mind your own business, Swede. I can take care of myself. [To Big Jim] You touch me and you won't live 'till morning.

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Blinky: He shouldn't have hit you... Doctor: Beats me. I don't know what keeps him going. Reardon: Will he be able to talk anymore? Doctor: He's dead now, except he's breathing.

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Swede: Swell idea you guys had. Leave me holdin' the bag at the half-way house while you split up the dough, huh?... Colfax: The half-way house burnt down last night. That's why we came here. Swede: Somebody ought to have let me know. Colfax: You were told, you're here. Swede: Next time, play it straight.

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Kitty: I thought you didn't like the Green Cat. Reardon: Only when I'm not expected.

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Kitty: Can you put me away, Mr. Reardon? Reardon: Blinky Franklin made a deathbed statement under oath. There's no stronger testimony. And there's a chambermaid in an Atlantic City hotel that has a memory for faces. Well? Kitty: Oh, there's no use kidding myself. I'd do anything you wanted. Give you every penny I could lay my hands on. Reardon: How many pennies is that? Kitty: Well, I might be able to raise $65, $70 thousand at the most. Reardon: Not enough. Kitty: That's all I could possibly get together. I'm not stalling, Mr. Reardon, not now. I know when I'm beaten. I'm fighting for my life, not Kitty Collins' life, but mine. I have a home now and a husband. I've got a life worth fighting for, and there's nothing in this world I wouldn't do to keep it just the way it is. Reardon: Well, we might still be able to do business if you put a prize in with the CrackerJack. Kitty: What do you mean? Reardon: I wanna fall guy when it's over. Kitty: Who would that be? Reardon: Colfax. Kitty: E

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Kitty: I'm taking my life in my hands coming to you like this, but I just couldn't stand by, not after what you did for me that time in Philly. Swede: Forget that. Why are you here now? Kitty: Colfax thinks I'm on my way to New York. He's meeting me there tomorrow. But I just had to come to you, Swede, and tell you. Swede: Tell me what? Kitty: They're planning to double-cross you. Swede: Who is? Kitty: Colfax and the others. They don't intend for you ever to get a smell of the money from tomorrow's job. Swede: How do you know that? Kitty: Colfax sprung it tonight on Dum Dum and Blinky right after you left. First, he called you names and said dirty things about you. And then he sprung it. What if they were not to go to the half-way house after the robbery? You'd go there, but they'd be someplace else, and so would the money. Swede: What did Blinky and Dum Dum say? Kitty: They fell right in with the idea. Swede: Where are they gonna meet? Kitty: The farmhouse north of town on Polk Road,

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Colfax: I guess our luck's run out, Kitty. [To Reardon] You didn't have anything on her before now, did ya? Reardon: No, but I had to make you think so. And I was sure you'd try to knock me off before I could find out Kitty was your wife. Colfax: You knew that too, huh? Reardon: Married people can't testify against each other. Otherwise, I would have tried playing you off one against each other, instead of making myself a target for those gunmen of yours... Lubinsky: What I don't get is, why you sent those two killers to blast the Swede? He wasn't doing ya any harm there in Brentwood. Why didn't ya let well enough alone? Colfax: I couldn't. Suppose one of the gang ran into him, same as I did. They were after the money, if he had a chance to tell his story, and that would've been the end of it. They knew Kitty and I were married and they've seen through the frame-up. Anyhow, if I hadn't had him knocked off, he would've wondered why, and begun thinking. Kitty: Jim! Jim!! Tell 'em I didn'

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Kenyon: And the Swede never knew his girl had gone straight back to Colfax with all the money. As for the others, they had no idea she'd ever been away from Colfax...And Colfax framed the whole thing, just so he wouldn't have to split the take. Reardon: The double-cross to end all double-crosses!