The Caribbean Mystery (1945)

James Dunn: Mr. Smith

Quotes 

• Mr. Smith : Shall we talk business?

  Gov. Gerald McCracken Sr. : I'm still puzzled about the park you took a walk in. We have no park here.

  Mr. Smith : Sure you have. Right on the edge of town.

  Col. Lane : What on earth is he talking about?

  Dr. Rene Marcel : I think he means the Henry Morgan swamp.

  Gov. Gerald McCracken Sr. : You went for a walk in the swamp?

  Mr. Smith : Well, you wouldn't call it walking exactly. Wading is more like it. In one spot I sank into mud up to my knees and had a heck of a time getting out.

  Gov. Gerald McCracken Sr. : Good heavens, man! You might have lost your life. That's quicksand

  Mr. Smith : Well, what do you know! You fellas ought to build a railing around a spot like that. It's dangerous!

  Col. Lane : Possibly if we had the railing you mentioned, Mr. Smith, eight people might be alive today, eh Governor?

  Gov. Gerald McCracken Sr. : I assume you are joking, Colonel. The entire swamp is one big quicksand.

  Mr. Smith : Is that what got those missing people? The mud?

  Col. Lane : Or alligators. Or other forms of reptilian life that inhabit the swamp.

  Mr. Smith : Then it's no mystery at all. Well, well. Maybe its just as well it doesn't amount to anything. These swamps and those alligators they baffle me. In Flatbush, the only wildlife we have are wolves. Those alligators are pretty tough, eh?

  Col. Lane : They can be very dangerous. They have been known to take a man's leg off with one bite.

  Gov. Gerald McCracken Sr. , Dr. Rene Marcel : [Shows them a bullet]  Before or after they shoot you?

• Hotel Clerk : [Looking at the lifeless body of Smith's detective partner, Gates, on the floor]  Is he dead?

  Mr. Smith : Well, when a guy gets shot through the heart, it usually stops. And when it stops, you're dead.

• Mr. Smith : Well, I guess I'll mosey along too, Governor.

  Gov. Gerald McCracken Sr. : But don't you want to discuss this case further, Mr. Smith?

  Mr. Smith : Case? Well, the Colonel has that all solved. They all fell in the mud and were drowned. Or got shot by the animals.

  Col. Lane : I dislike your attitude very much, Mr. Smith. I see no necessity for your irony nor pointing it at me.

  Mr. Smith : Irony? That's a new one on me. You'll have to talk plainer, Colonel, if you want me to understand. Remember, I'm just a flatfoot from Flatbush.

• Col. Lane : Haven't any of you fellows ever been to Brooklyn?

  Col. Lane : No.

  Dr. Rene Marcel : No.

  Mr. Smith : Why, you ought to go there sometime. It's the garden spot of the world. Spotted on one end by Coney Island and the other by Cypress Hills Cemetery. You've heard that old expression, haven't you? See Brooklyn and die?

  Col. Lane : And get buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery, I suppose?

  Mr. Smith : Or in Greenwood. We have plenty of choices in Brooklyn.

• Mr. Smith : After you, Doc. It makes me nervous to have anybody walk behind me.