Deadline at Dawn (1946)

Susan Hayward: June Goffe

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Quotes 

• June Goffe : You see, son, it's all right to live in a cocoon like this if you expect to be a butterfly someday. Otherwise...

• June Goffe : If you hear a peculiar noise, it's my skin creeping.

• June Goffe : Call me June. It rhymes with moon.

• June Goffe : Golly, the misery that walks around on this pretty, quiet night.

  Gus Hoffman : June... the logic you are looking for... the logic is that there is no logic. The horror and terror you feel, my dear, comes from being alive. Die, and there is no trouble. Live, and you struggle.

• Alex Winkler : [while dancing]  Do you think it might rain and cool off?

  June Goffe : [detached]  Such things have been known to happen.

  Alex Winkler : [after a pause]  A lot of nice people dancing here, isn't there?

  June Goffe : [cynically]  This is a post office, son, full of second-class matter.

• Gus Hoffman : [referring to the shadowy figure in the back of the cab]  You know this man?

  June Goffe : I can't see him in there.

  Gus Hoffman : Well, get out, kind sir.

  Edward Honig : [defiantly]  I won't!

  Gus Hoffman : There's a police booth down there.

  Sam - Taxi Driver : [to Gus]  Listen, I don't wanna get in no trouble. I work. I'm just a parasite on parasites.

  Sam - Taxi Driver : [to the man in the back of his cab]  What are you following her for?

• June Goffe : [in Edna's apartment]  We'd better wait in the dark a minute. Do you hear anything?

  Alex Winkler : Only your breathing.

  June Goffe : Is that what that is?

  Alex Winkler : Yes, and mine.

• June Goffe : [walking into Edna's apartment and seeing that she has been strangled]  I hear the whistle blowing.

  [after a pause] 

  June Goffe : Who did it? You?

  Alex Winkler : You mean you think I did it?

  June Goffe : Didn't you?

  Alex Winkler : Don't look at me like that! I think you'd better leave.

  June Goffe : Yes. Well, this is New York... where "hello" means "goodbye".

• June Goffe : [angrily to the bouncer]  Why don't you ask him why he's wearing those white gloves? He's been givin' me the itch all night.

  Edward Honig : [nervously]  No, it's a misunderstanding.

  June Goffe : [contemptuously]  He's got a rash on his hands.

  Bouncer : [angrily]  Is that a fact?

  Edward Honig : [desperately]  No, it's a nervous condition.