Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
Guy Usher: Inspector Regan
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Quotes
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Inspector Regan : Kelly, you stay here. It might do you a little good to meet a real detective.
[after a pause]
Inspector Regan : Ask Mr. Chan to come in.
Sergeant Kelly : Wait a minute! You haven't called Chop Suey in on the case? Have you, Chief?
Inspector Regan : No, but it's not a bad idea, and take your hat off! You could learn a little politeness from the Chinese too!
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Charlie Chan : Case still wide open like swinging gate.
Sergeant Kelly : Watta yuh mean?
Charlie Chan : Gravelle not murderer.
Inspector Regan : Not Gravelle?
Charlie Chan : Excuse please, will demonstrate hypothesis.
Sergeant Kelly : What?
Charlie Chan : Word of Greek origin, hypo meaning...
Sergeant Kelly : [interrupting] Hypo! I get it! He's hittin' the pipe again!
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Inspector Regan : [after examining the card that Mme. Rochelle said she received attached to the basket of flowers, and which reads "You Will Die Tonight"] Perhaps you are right, Charlie: our madman does know Mme. Rochelle!
Mme. Lilli Rochelle : I told this officer that I do not know your escaped maniac!
Enrico Barelli : Madame meets many people but she usually avoids the mad ones.