The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)

Clarence Kolb: Police Captain McGovern

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• Police Captain McGovern : Wait a minute. You wouldn't happen to have any ideas on how to catch the Phantom Slugger would you?

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : Why sure. Dress this monkey up in women's clothes and send him out in the street as a decoy.

  Detective Deever : What?

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : Well, you can do it, Deever, you're the prettiest cop in the force. Look at that waistline Chief. Nice and slender. And those beautiful big, brown eyes. Just pour a pint of perfume over him and you'd be prefect.

  Detective Deever : Cut out those rattle-brain ideas of yours, this is the Police Department not the Follies.

• Police Captain McGovern : I've been thinking of sending one of our men out on the streets at night, eh, as a decoy, dressed as a woman.

  Citizens Committee Woman : That's the first sensible plan I've heard.

  Citizens Committee Man : Why hasn't this suggestion been offered before?

  Police Captain McGovern : The difficulty is in finding a good man willing to undertake the job. Most of my fellas would resign before they'd parade the streets in woman's clothes.

  Citizens Committee Woman : Humph. I can't see why?

  Police Captain McGovern : For some reason madame, men still prefer to dress as men. You could hardly expect the average man to, eh, take the ridicule and the humiliation he'd be put through.

• Police Captain McGovern : You see, I don't think you're good enough for him. The woman that marries that man has got to take him for what he is - a good cop! Not what she wants him to be.

• Maxine Carroll : Capt. McGovern, when you die, why don't you leave your body to science?

  Police Captain McGovern : What for?

  Maxine Carroll : I'd just like to know what cops use for a heart.

  Police Captain McGovern : [walks away laughing]  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

• Police Captain McGovern : I'm a captain. You're only a lieutenant.

• Police Captain McGovern : The woman that marries that man has gotta take him for what he is - a good cop. Not what she wants him to be.

• Police Captain McGovern : The first requirement of any good officer is never to ask a man to do something that he wouldn't do himself.