Lady in Cement (1968)

Frank Sinatra: Tony Rome

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• Tony Rome : Time to hoist the martini flag.

• Tony Rome : I'm a private detective.

  Kit Forrest : How disappointing. And I thought you were someone dangerous.

• Tony Rome : That robe is making me nervous.

  Kit Forrest : You don't like it?

  Tony Rome : You'd look good in a paper napkin.

• Lt. Dave Santini : Listen, Manny, you book one more bet off this line, I'll run you in for impersonating a female!

  Tony Rome : I keep telling him he looks lousy in a miniskirt.

• Rubin : You must have seen something down there.

  Tony Rome : Yeah, a dead blond.

  Rubin : A dead blond? Was she pretty?

  Tony Rome : She's one blond I know didn't have more fun.

• Lt. Dave Santini : Things slow on the vice squad, Rubin? You can go off and play games?

  Rubin : I had a busy week. I personally closed two plays, put six belly dancers out of business, and personally attended several love-ins. I need a rest.

  Tony Rome : Yeah, Vice runs you down, you know.

  Lt. Dave Santini : You ought to know.

• Tony Rome : Dumping people in cement. That went out with violin cases.

• Maria Baretto : I got all kinds of notions, once I'm in the mood.

  Tony Rome : Couple of drinks put you in a better mood?

  Maria Baretto : You're hip.

• Waldo Gronsky : I gotta find Sandra. She's supposed to live in this place with a Spanish broad, but she ain't showed.

  Tony Rome : Why don't you check with the Spanish dame?

  Waldo Gronsky : I got my reasons.

• Tony Rome : When'd you see her last?

  Maria Baretto : Last night when she went to Kit Forrest's party. You know, that society dish.

  Tony Rome : Yeah. I've read her name in the garbage columns.

• Audrey : He played tailback for the Green Bay Packers.

  Tony Rome : I know, I know. I saw him play. He had the league record for illegal use of hands. In the huddle yet.

• Kit Forrest : Well, shall I scream "rape" now or wait and phone in a complaint?

  Tony Rome : If you're asking me, I'd rather you press charges.

• Kit Forrest : I wonder how I would have turned out if I hadn't inherited a fortune.

  Tony Rome : Well, I can think of a couple of occupations.

  Kit Forrest : See, money does have its restrictions.

  Tony Rome : Yeah. You're broadening me.

• Al Mungar : For your information, wise guy, my boy made all-American at Amherst.

  Tony Rome : You're not ashamed? With all those guys burning their draft card, your kid becomes an all-American.

• Lt. Dave Santini : I got two murders on my hands. If you got something, give it to me.

  Tony Rome : I could throw you a few hints, Dave. You might start at Jilly's - where there's a fun couple named Danny Yale and a butch girlfriend named Seymour. Or you could find Al Mungar and lean on him a little bit. And last but not least there's a very good-looking broad whose got a crazy breaststroke named Kit Forrest.

  Lt. Dave Santini : What ties them all together?

  Tony Rome : Could be cement.

• Tony Rome : All around it's a bad day for losers.

• Waldo Gronsky : Hey, I want to talk to you before you talk to me.

  Tony Rome : Talk.

• Tony Rome : Maybe you're the kind of dame who collects hoods. I used to know a broad collected bullfighters.

  Kit Forrest : You are a bastard, Mr. Rome!

  Tony Rome : My mother wouldn't like that.

• Tony Rome : [on the 2-way radio]  Coast Guard. This is Straight Pass calling Coast Guard. Over.

  Coast Guard : Straight Pass, this is Coast Guard.

  Tony Rome : This is Straight Pass. Like to report a body floating off Fowey Rocks.

  Coast Guard : Is it a hazard to navigation? Is it a hazard to navigation?

  Tony Rome : No, just a dead, wet blonde hanging around in a block of cement. Over and out.

• Lt. Dave Santini : What killed her?

  Jerome, Medical Examiner : A knife with a long, narrow blade. Driven under the breastbone into her heart, then it was pulled out.

  Tony Rome : Anything else turn up in the autopsy?

  Jerome, Medical Examiner : No, except she never had any babies. Though she definitely had relations with men. She would have made a natural mother.

  Lt. Dave Santini : Is that all?

  Jerome, Medical Examiner : Uh-huh. What a pelvis. What a pelvis!

• Tony Rome : What's your name?

  Waldo Gronsky : Gronsky. Waldo Gronsky.

  Tony Rome : Waldo?

  Waldo Gronsky : Waldo.

  Tony Rome : Waldo?