I wish you’d do the coshing sometimes, Walshy. Cosh Boy aka The Slasher aka The Tough Guy 1953 starring James Kenney & Joan Collins & Betty Ann Davies & Robert Ayres & Hermione Baddeley & Hermione Gingold & Nancy Roberts & Laurence Naismith & Ian Whittaker et al, director Lewis Gilbert, gangster
Keep a firm hand. He needs it. ibid. probation officer to mother of Walshy
I’m running this gang. I always was and I’m always gunna. ibid. Walsh
All the boys I know they just want a good time. ibid. Joan Collins
Thugs with delusion of eloquence. Sin City 2005 starring Jessica Alba & Mickey Rourke & Brittany Murphy & Clive Owen & Bruce Willis & Elijah Wood & Rutger Hauer & Makenzie Vega & Devon Aoki & Alexis Bledel & Powers Boothe & Rosario Dawson & Benicio del Toro & Michael Clarke Duncan & Rick Gomez & Carla Gugino et al, director Miller & Rodriguez & Tarantino, Willis
Old man dies; little girl lives: fair trade. ibid.
Aim careful. And look the devil in the eye. ibid.
I’m as expert as a palsy victim doing brain surgery with a pipe wrench. ibid.
She shivers in the wind like the last leaf on a dying tree. ibid. The Customer is Always Right opening commentary
The night is hot as hell. It’s a lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town. I’m staring at a goddess. She’s telling me she wants me. ibid. The Hard Goodbye
If he wanted advice on women he should’ve come to me … Women are like cars right: they go rusty if you don’t keep them you know what I mean, polished, well oiled, looked after. Between the Canals 2012 starring Peter Coonan & Dan Hyland & Stephen Jones & Damien Dempsey & Anne Marie Marten & Kenneth Meehan & Mary O’Toole et al, director Mark O’Connor
Whoever it was that took your wife didn’t just pick your name out of a hat. They must have had some idea you kept that kind of cash in the house. A Walk Among the Tombstones 2014 starring Liam Neeson & Dan Stevens & Boyd Holbrook & Olafur Darri Olafsson & Brian Astro Bradley & Mark Consuelos & David Harbour & Adam David Thompson & Sebastian Roche & Laura Birn et al, director Scott Frank
Caress it, rub it, like it’s part of you. Feels good, doesn’t it? Turn off the safety. Now cock it. ibid.
When your job is to find people who are missing, it helps to know where they started. I find the people who started in the cracks and then fell through. Gone Baby Gone 2007 starring Casey Affleck & Michelle Monaghan & Morgan Freeman & Ed Harris & John Ashton & Amy Rian & Madeline O’Brien & Amy Madigan & Titus Welliver & Slaine et al, director
If we don’t catch the abductor by day one, only about 10% are ever solved. ibid. rozzer Doyle
Jesus Christ he’s trying to kill himself. I seen it on TV once. The Client 1994 starring Susan Sarandon & Tommy Lee Jones & Brad Renfro & Mary-Louise Parker & David Speck & Anthony LaPaglia & J T Walsh & Anthony Heald & Bradley Whiteford & Anthony Edwards et al, director Joel Schumacher, boy to boy
You boys attempted to interrogate a child outside the presence of his mother without her consent. ibid. Reggie
You file those petitions and incarcerate his young ass tonight. ibid. Roy
He’s just a client. ibid. judge
It never fails to amaze me what a man will do to get in the Oval Office. The Pelican Brief 1993 starring Julia Roberts & Denzel Washington & Sam Shepard & John Heard & Tony Goldwyn & James B Sikking & William Atherton & Robert Culp & Stanley Tucci & Hume Cronyn et al, director Alan J Pakula, Supreme Court judge
I think I stumbled across something in the office I wasn’t supposed to see. ibid. source to Grantham
This is a brief written by a eager-beaver Tulane law student … It implicates the White House. ibid. aide to president
I think you look like an accountant. Buffet Froid 1979 starring Gerard Depardieu & Bernard Blier & Jean Carmet & Liliane Rovere & Carole Bouquet & Denise Gence & Marco Perrin & Jean Benguigui & Jean Rougerie & Bernard Crombey et al, director Bertrand Blier, Alphonse to bloke on tube platform
Well, don’t you ever think of killing anyone? ibid.
Don’t you believe it. It’s exhausting doing nothing. ibid.
The concrete is driving us crazy! The empty lots! The inhuman world around us! The monstrous soulless city! ibid. the murderer
Keep your dirty hands off me. This Gun for Hire 1942 starring Veronica Lake & Alan Ladd & Robert Preston & Laird Cregar & Tully Marshall & Marc Lawrence & Olin Howland & Roger Imhof & Pamela Blake & Frank Ferguson et al, director Frank Tuttle, cleaning lady to Alan Ladd
Chemist and Woman Murdered. ibid. San Francisco Express headline
Look at this cunt. Look at the walk in him. I think he’s looking well though. Looking healthy. He’s lifting. Broken Law 2020 starring Tristan Heaue & Graham Earley & John Connors & Gemma-Leah Devereux & Ally Ni Charain & Ryan Lincoln et al, director Paddy Slattery, two blokes in jam-jar opening scene
One thing I noticed about rich people – they’re angry most of the time. Turks & Caicos 2014 starring Bill Nighy & Helena Bonham Carter & Rupert Graves & Ralph Fiennes & Ewen Bremner & James McArdle & Winona Ryder & Christopher Walken & Dylan Baker et al, director David Hare, her to him
As a child I knew I would hold a gun one day. My dad had a gun, so it was only right I had a gun. I knew I’d be around bad people who did bad things. People who killed, stole, sold drugs for a living. It was in my DNA. It was in my blood. The Intent 2016 starring Scorcher & Jade Asher & Dylan Dufus & Shane Romulus & Femi Oyeniran & Ashley Chin & Nicky Slimting & Fekky & Krept & Konan & Sarah Akohia et al, directors Femi Oyeniran & Kalvadour Peterson, opening scene
Welcome to the club! The Small World of Sammy Lee 1963 starring Anthony Newley & Julia Foster & Robert Stephens & Wilfrid Brambell & Miriam Karlin & Kenneth J Warren & Warren Mitchell & Harry Locke & Roy Kinnear & Alfred Burke & Harry Baird & Julia Foster, director Ken Hughes, stripper to Patsy
Make yourselves comfortable. Not too comfortable there, sir, thank you, we were raided last week. ibid. compare
The crooks are using every modern scientific device whiles you stick to your old-fashioned methods. The Informers aka Underworld Informers 1963 starring Nigel Patrick & Margaret Whiting & Katherine Woodville & Colin Blakely & Derren Nesbitt & Harry Andrews & Michael Coles & John Cowley & Allan Cuthbertson & Frank Finlay & Ronald Hines & Roy Kinnear & Peter Bowles et al, director Ken Annakin, chief rozzer
Charlie: So er how’s the decorating business?
Maerose: Oh it’s just great, Charlie. We’re always busy. Everything is art deco now.
Charlie: Art who? Prizzi’s Honor 1985 starring Jack Nicholson & Kathleen Turner & Anjelica Huston & Robert Loggia & John Randolph & William Hickey & Lee Richardson & Michael Lombard & C C H Pounder & Stanley Tucci & Lawrence Tierney et al, director John Huston
I see what I want to see. That’s what love is. ibid. him to her
What are you next to seventy million dollars? Nuttin’. ibid. Charlie’s dad