Topper Returns (1941)
Donald MacBride: Police Detective Roberts
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Quotes
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Sgt. Roberts : So you admit there is a body.
Cosmo Topper : Yes. I came over here to look for it.
Sgt. Roberts : Well, how did you know it was here?
Cosmo Topper : She told me.
Sgt. Roberts : She? Who's she?
Cosmo Topper : The dead girl.
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Sgt. Roberts : Why did you kill her?
Cosmo Topper : I didn't!
Sgt. Roberts : That's only ONE man's opinion.
Cosmo Topper : I can prove it.
Sgt. Roberts : How?
Cosmo Topper : Leave me alone in that room for a minute.
Sgt. Roberts : Ho-ho, I'm not THAT dumb.
Bob : Well, that's only one man's opinion, too.
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Sgt. Roberts : Send for a straight jacket. Make it two - one for me.
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Sgt. Roberts : There's a pickpocket in the joint! Whoever stole that witness, put her back!
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Sgt. Roberts : [on the phone] Cosmo Topper. Well, what's he look like?
Clara Topper : Like a banker. Of course, that's because he is a banker.
Sgt. Roberts : Well, can you describe him?
Clara Topper : Well, he wears a size 15 shirt with a 33 sleeve. A 9 and a half sock liner. And he's slightly bald.
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Sgt. Roberts : I'm not supposed to think - I'm from the city hall.
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Sgt. Roberts : You wouldn't, by any chance, be thinking you were a lamb chop?
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Sgt. Roberts : Well, what are YOU doin' here?
Eddie, the Chauffeur : If you'd've asked me that a second later, you'd have been talkin' to yourself.
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Sgt. Roberts : Nobody leaves this room. Not even me. And that goes for the both of us.
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Sgt. Roberts : Innocent men stay home nights. They don't hide in iceboxes. And they don't take dead bodies on boat rides.
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Sgt. Roberts : I've been in politics ten years, and I've never seen anything as balled up as this is!
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Sgt. Roberts : Where's your husband?
Clara Topper : In the icebox.
Sgt. Roberts : Has he got the body with him?
Clara Topper : Certainly. Under his overcoat.