Lady in Cement (1968)

Richard Conte: Lt. Dave Santini

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• Lt. Dave Santini : You're the only guy I know who owns a yacht and eats leftover TV dinners. Cold yet.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!