The Killers (1946)

Jack Lambert: 'Dum-Dum' Clarke

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• Big Jim Colfax : [to Dum Dum]  You can leave anytime you want, friend.

  'Blinky' Franklin : [acting as peacemaker]  Come on! Easy does it, fellas! Easy does it!

  'Dum-Dum' Clarke : I don't like to be asked to come up here and then told I can go. Who do you think you're pushin' around?

  Big Jim Colfax : A minute ago we were talkin' about reputations. Well, you've got quite a reputation yourself - you're supposed to be a troublemaker.

  Big Jim Colfax : [deliberately taking the cigarette out of his mouth]  Okay. Make some.

• 'Dum-Dum' Clarke : You twitch a lot, friend. Nervous, huh? Carrying the monkey on your back, ain't you?

  'Blinky' Franklin : I was. I'm not anymore.

• Kitty Collins : What's the matter with you?

  Big Jim Colfax : What do you mean, what's the matter?

  Kitty Collins : You're nervous. You're all in a sweat.

  Big Jim Colfax : You keep your mouth shut - if you don't want it slapped shut. You been askin' for it lately!

  'Swede' Andersen : Hey!

  Big Jim Colfax : Any objections?

  'Swede' Andersen : Yeah!

  'Dum-Dum' Clarke : Keep out of this, Swede. She's his girl.

  Kitty Collins : Mind your own business, Swede. I can take care of myself. You touch me and you won't live till morning!

• Charleston : If it's as big as you claim, it's not going to be any easy pickins. Nothing that big ever is. And that's what I want from here on in. Easy pickins.

  'Dum-Dum' Clarke : It'd go just as hard with you if you were taken for stickin' up a shine parlor.

  Charleston : Yes, that's right, but the chances of being taken aren't as many. I don't know. Maybe - Maybe I'm just gettin' old. It's like you were saying before the Swede come in. I've done a lot of time. I've spent almost half my life in stir, and I don't intend to spend any more.