Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)

Howard Duff: George Morton

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• George Morton : [talking to Johnny after Johnny has found out his wife died due to narcotic addiction while he was in prison]  Do you know how they die, Johnny? You got any idea what it's like... what they go through from that first time they find they can't get along without it? How they have to have more and more until every cent they can lay hands on goes into it. Or they begin to hit the skids and they can't raise the money anymore. They'll do anything for it then, Johnny. Anything...

  Johnny Evans : Shut up!

  George Morton : They can't get enough now, and pretty soon every nerve in their body is screaming and they're tearing off their clothes and they're tearing at their skinny bodies with their nails and screaming... that's how they die, Johnny. Screaming.

  Johnny Evans : Shut up!

  George Morton : That's how *she* died.

  [Johnny slowly walks away]