A Scandal in Paris (1946)

Akim Tamiroff: Emile Vernet

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• Eugéne François Vidocq : Try to see further than the point of your knife. If I become chief of police, we'll have a chance to loot the city.

  Emile Vernet : Loot a city? What does that mean?

  Eugéne François Vidocq : Conservatively... fifteen million.

  Emile Vernet : Fifteen...?

  Eugéne François Vidocq : ...million... in gold.

  Emile Vernet : Where is it?

  Eugéne François Vidocq : In the vault of the Bank of Paris.

  Emile Vernet : Bank of Paris? Hmmmnnnn... Such a job! No! Too big for the two of us!

  Eugéne François Vidocq : Yes, but we can enlist the support of your dear family.

  Emile Vernet : Yeah, family!... Yeah, but we'll have to give them a cut.

  Eugéne François Vidocq : A small percentage.

  Emile Vernet : Nah... no percentage! Just a cut!

• Eugéne François Vidocq : Remarkable for one of her sex. I'm afraid a fourth time and I'm liable to fall in love with her.

  Emile Vernet : Fall in love - lay off. That's how they collared my cousin, Pierre... . He went dancing one night and didn't get home for fifty years.

• Emile Vernet : It's that girl. You think she's worth 50 million Francs?

  Eugéne François Vidocq : Oh, heh, much more than that.

• Emile Vernet : Look at that old Christmas tree parading around with diamonds big as tomb stones. If we could only get our hands on...

  Eugéne François Vidocq : It isn't done, Emile, to put such thoughts into words.