The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)

Myrna Loy: Nora Charles

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• Studs Lonnegan : Hello, sister. Is Nick Charles here?

  Nora Charles : Who wants him?

  Police Officer : Yeah, who wants him?

  Studs Lonnegan : Is your name sister?

• Nora Charles : Just imagine, four murders, all strangulations, no fingerprints, no clues. The police were baffled. All they had were four bodies. So what do they do? They dump the whole thing in Nick's lap. Nobody suspected Stinky, because he's been a cripple ever since some nitro went off while he was cracking a canister in Salt Lake. Everybody thought it was Rainbow Benny, but Nick knew that Rainbow was an expert with the shiv. Strangling was out of his line! Oh, smart Nick! Then they turned the heat on Slasher Martin who ran an dice joint down in China Town. But Slasher had an alibi with Squinty Burke and Studsy Green, so that took care of him. But all the time Nick was certain that Stinky Davis was the killer. Why? Because he had him pegged right away for a two timing double crossing rat! But the police listen to Nick? No! They told him it was a hophead theory, wild as loco buttons, because Stinky was a cripple and couldn't navigate. So Nick got the brushoff from the police. They cold-shouldered him right out. But did that stop him? No sir! He knew the case was hot and he was all set to start cooking on the front burner. He said: "Stinky, you're the two timing double crossing rat who strangled Knobs McClure and Reesy Joe and Horseface Dan and Denver Mike and then he turned his back on him. And the trick worked! Because Stinky got out of his chair and tried to strangle Nick with a piece of wire he had hidden in his mouth. But just in time, Nick turned around and gave him the old one-two and knocked Stinky colder than an ice flounder. Stinky wasn't a cripple at all! He was just using it to cover up his crimes. Now, what do you think of *that*?

  Dr. Bertram Charles : Well, if Nicky suspected that Stinky Davis wasn't really a cripple, why didn't he have him examined by a doctor? The whole thing is so silly!

• Nicholas 'Nick' Charles : A couple of weeks on this cider and I'll be a new man.

  Nora Charles : I sort of like the old one.

  Nicholas 'Nick' Charles : Why, darling, that's the nicest thing you've said to me since the time I got my head caught in that cuspidor at the Waldorf.

• Nora Charles : Who's Sam Ronson?

  Mrs. Charles : He's the town banker. He has a hand in everything that goes on here. I suppose he's what you call a typhoon.

  Dr. Bertram Charles : Do'nt you mean tycoon, mother? Typhoon is a sort of big wind.

  Mrs. Charles : Well, that's Sam Ronson.

• Nora Charles : You know Nicky, we were married three years before he told me he loved me.

• Police Chief MacGregor : Mr. Brogan, if it isn't too much trouble, would you mind telling me were you came from?

  Brogan : I'm a friend of Nick's, get it? And I was just passin' by, get it? So, I thought I'd just stop in...

  Nora Charles : Get it?

• Nora Charles : I really shouldn't give him a birthday present at all - sneaking off like that, getting drunk, without me. Running into an old sweetheart. If all his old sweethearts were laid end-to-end, you could use them as a sidewalk.

• Nora Charles : Oh, Nicky, you're driving me crazy. This case is serious and all you do is fuddle around and guzzle cider.

  Nicholas 'Nick' Charles : I'll switch to prune juice.

• Nicholas 'Nick' Charles : Wait here.

  Nora Charles : Where are you going?

  Nicholas 'Nick' Charles : I want to do a little business with a blonde.

  Nora Charles : Do you think she'll give it to you?

  Nicholas 'Nick' Charles : Well, I can try darling. Anything for art.

• Nora Charles : I wonder if she's acting?

• Nora Charles : [Last Line]  Why, Nicky, I do believe you popped a button!

• Nicholas 'Nick' Charles : Now you're going to get it! You're going to get it...

  Nora Charles : Oh, no Nick, not here in front of your parents!

  Nicholas 'Nick' Charles : [Nick bends Nora over and starts spanking her behind with a newspaper and starts quoting Nora's statement to the press]  But you can draw your own conclusions!

  Nora Charles : Ouch! Nicky!

  Nicholas 'Nick' Charles : This will teach you the power of the press!

  Nora Charles : Oh! A fine son you brought up. A wife-beater!

  Dr. Bertram Charles : A brave boy!

  [laughs] 

  Dr. Bertram Charles : I wanted to do that to mother for 40 years.

  Mrs. Charles : I dare you!

• Nora Charles : Nicky, do you really like cider?

  Nicholas 'Nick' Charles : Like it? I love it. Just the pure, natural juices of the apple. What could be better, for instance?

  Nora Charles : A dry martini, for instance.

  Nicholas 'Nick' Charles : That horrible stuff. It almost took the lining off my stomach.

  Nora Charles : Why do you care? It didn't show.

• Nora Charles : I don't suppose there's any crime in Sycamore Springs?

  Mrs. Charles : Gracious no. The only excitement we ever had was a runaway horse last Christmas.

• Mrs. Charles : Well, all I can say is if you're looking for crime in Sycamore Springs, you'll have to commit it yourself.

  Nora Charles : I wonder? Nicky always says that there's a skeleton in nearly every closet and if you rattle it hard enough something always happens.

• Nora Charles : I'll be waiting for you, darling. Good luck.

  Nicholas 'Nick' Charles : I'll need it, sister.

  Nora Charles : And don't call me sister.

• Nora Charles : Draque? But, that's the name of the man who offered me 500 dollars!

• Nora Charles : Asta, you'll get an extra bone for this.