Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
James Gleason: Inspector Oscar Piper
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Quotes
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Oscar Piper : I got to admit, you can take it.
Hildegarde Withers : Well, don't forget, when necessary I can dish it out, too.
Oscar Piper : I wish you'd let me forget it.
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Oscar Piper : I oughta be a detective in the movies.
Hildegarde Withers : You could do all the acting, and the author could solve the crime.
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[last lines]
Oscar Piper : ...A fella could come up and see ya some time couldn't he?
Hildegarde Withers : Why, Oscar Piper!
[Oscar laughs]
Hildegarde Withers : Why, you dreadful man! You get out of here. Go on, get out!
[He leaves the diner, laughing heartily, as Hildegarde smoothes her ruffled feathers]
Hildegarde Withers : Insulted at my age!
Bearded Diner : Better late than never, sister.
Hildegarde Withers : [haughtily] That will do.
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Oscar Piper : You were the only one besides Schweitzer who knew she had the lottery ticket. You planned the whole thing.
Jane Davis : I didn't! I tell you, I didn't!
Oscar Piper : You murdered your best friend for a mere Sweepstakes prize.
Hildegarde Withers : A mere Sweepstakes prize of $50,000. Ha! I'd murder some people I know for 50 cents.
Oscar Piper : Ah, the French secret police are now wit' us. I gave orders for the teachers to be here at 9. It's now 10.
Hildegarde Withers : Ten AFTER ten, Inspector.
Oscar Piper : Something important kept you, I suppose.
Hildegarde Withers : Just the solution of the murder, that's all.
Oscar Piper : Oh, that's fine. Everybody all rounded up now, I take it?
Hildegarde Withers : Well, I haven't rounded up a lot of helpless women for browbeating, anyway.
Oscar Piper : I never met a helpless woman in my life. Siddown.
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Detective Smiley North : Whatta yuh think we found in the cellar?
Oscar Piper : [Annoyed] Oh, now it's riddles!
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Detective Smiley North : [Reporting on the cellar] No body, but someone's been diggin' a grave.
Oscar Piper : People don't dig graves just for the fun of it. Come on, Hildegard!
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Oscar Piper : I'm gonna take this building apart brick by brick until I find the man that did that!
Hildegarde Withers : Or the woman...
Oscar Piper : Or the woman! Ain't let a cop killer get away in this town in twenty years!
Hildegarde Withers : Cop killer! I suppose one dead schoolteacher more or less doesn't count.
Oscar Piper : I don't count my corpses until I come to 'em!
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Oscar Piper : We caught him quicker than I thought.
Hildegarde Withers : Almost anything can be done quicker than you think of.
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Hildegarde Withers : That settles it!
Oscar Piper : Settles what?
Hildegarde Withers : I'm going to search the cellar.
Oscar Piper : You're not going into the cellar alone.
Hildegarde Withers : That's something you'll have to decide for yourself, Oscar.
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Oscar Piper : This case is open and shut.
Hildegarde Withers : Open and shut?
Oscar Piper : Sure! The guy's a moron.
Hildegarde Withers : You should get him on the force.
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Oscar Piper : [to Smiley about Otto] Book him for disorderly conduct or inciting to riot. Isn't so long as you get him in a cell.
Hildegarde Withers : How are you going to find him in a cell if you couldn't find him in the cellar?
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Detective Donahue : [Noticing Dr. Von Immen and Hildegarde talking in his hospital room] Hey, what are those two talkin' about, for the love of Mike?
Oscar Piper : Whatta you care? You're lucky they're not both in bed with yuh.