Appointment with Danger (1950)

Alan Ladd: Al Goddard

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• Dodie : I'm just shopping. They got some new records in. Do you like Bop?

  Al Goddard : Bop? Is that where everybody plays a different tune at the same time?

  Dodie : You just haven't heard enough of it.

• Earl Boettiger : What's the matter with you? You got a face a foot long.

  Joe Regas : You look as if you just lost your best friend.

  Al Goddard : I'm my best friend.

  Joe Regas : That's what I said.

• Maury Ahearn : You don't know what a love affair is.

  Al Goddard : It's what goes on between a man and a .45 pistol that won't jam.

• Al Goddard : Prayer's not gonna keep you from being killed.

  Sister Augustine : People don't pray to keep from dying. They pray to keep from being disappointed when they do.

• Al Goddard : You can rob Fort Knox and live, but steal a dime and kill a post office man, and they'll spend a million and a lifetime lookin' for you.

• Al Goddard : How many nuns are there anyway?

  Policeman : I don't know, Mr. Goddard. I never counted them.

• Maury Ahearn : And remember one thing, Al. The biggest thing on your side isn't a pair of brass knuckles. It's time and men and patience.

  Al Goddard : [Dryly]  Thanks, and now do you mind if I find out who killed Harry Gruber?

  Maury Ahearn : No. No, I'm sure you will, Al, because you're a good cop. But that's about all you are.

• Al Goddard : You don't think very much of me, do you?

  Sister Augustine : I think of everything, Mr. Goddard, but I feel sorry for you. I don't think you have a heart.

  Al Goddard : Call it muscle. That's the way it is for a cop.

  Sister Augustine : I don't believe you.

  Al Goddard : When a cop dies, they don't listen to his heart fade. It's a charley horse in the chest.

• Sister Augustine : I'll remember you in my prayers.

  Al Goddard : Well, if I haven't anything else, i've got a good lawyer.

• Dodie : Can I give you a lift?

  Al Goddard : You already have.

• Earl Boettiger : I don't get it, Goddard. You go along one way for years, and all of a sudden you pull a complete switch. Why?

  Al Goddard : Sooner or later every rooster wants to lay an egg.

• Dodie : You afraid of me, Al?

  Al Goddard : Doesn't Earl ever get jealous?

  Dodie : He understands. You can put strings on good women or bad women. But you can't do anything about lazy ones.

  Al Goddard : You can beat 'em.

  Dodie : They stay about the same. You can't make 'em do the right thing, or the wrong thing. They're lazy. They do the *easy* thing.

  [nestles close for a kiss, then promptly springs up from Al's lap when Earl's voice is heard in hallway. Brightly] 

  Dodie : Saved by the bell!

  Al Goddard : That... is the story of my life.

• Paul Ferrar : Ten years in jail is sure gonna help my love life.

  Al Goddard : It's more romantic than being dead.

• Sister Augustine : Do you know, Mr. Goddard, with a little practice, you could be a nice man.

  Al Goddard : I'll take two weeks off some time and try it.

• Al Goddard : She can't do us any harm, Earl. Doesn't know our names, anything about us.