Mike Hammer (TV Series)

Swing Low, Sweet Harriet (1959)

Merry Anders: Harriet Britton

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [Emmett listens to his voice on a tape recording] 

  Emmett Gates : I mean it darling; I love you, I want you, I need you... You're the most exciting woman...

  [Emmett turns off tape recorder] 

  Emmett Gates : Did I actually say anything as banal, as trite as that?

  Harriet Britton : Word for word, Emmett darling.

• [Emmett writes a check for Harriet] 

  Emmett Gates : Now I give you this and you give me the tape recording and we can both look back on our friendship with fond memories.

  Harriet Britton : But Emmett honey, this is for two thousand dollars.

  Emmett Gates : Well, think nothing of it.

  Harriet Britton : That's exactly what I do think of it.

  [Harriet tears up the check] 

  Harriet Britton : Nothing!

  Emmett Gates : Nothing? What exactly did you have it mind?

  Harriet Britton : Fifteen thousand dollars.

  Emmett Gates : Fifteen!

  Harriet Britton : Well, think how much more that it would cost you if your wife divorced you.

• Mike Hammer : You think we could have this conversation in English?

  Harriet Britton : In English? What y'all talkin' about?

  Mike Hammer : Honey, that accent of yours is as phony as a four-dollar bill.

  Harriet Britton : All right, you win. The accent is a phony; I wouldn't know a hush puppy from a St. Bernard.