Johnny Midnight (TV Series)
The 9th Doll (1960)
Edmond O'Brien: Johnny Midnight
Quotes
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Maggie : Don't take it so hard, lover, they brushed me off too. And I'm the press.
Johnny Midnight : The press? A scandal column in a yellow tabloid?
Maggie : I write the truth about people. If the truth isn't nice, it's because people aren't nice.
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Johnny Midnight : What's the big idea, Lupo, sending your flatfoots up to frisk my penthouse? I told you Helen Vernon wasn't there.
Sgt. Sam Olivera : Okay, amigo, where did you take her?
Johnny Midnight : And you can skip the "amigo" bit if this is your Latin idea of friendship.
Sgt. Sam Olivera : Alright, Johnny, I'm a Latin who crawled out of the slums to be a cop. And when a cop deals with murder he has no friends.
Johnny Midnight : Look, Lupo, I didn't mean...
Sgt. Sam Olivera : Where's Helen Vernon?
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Sgt. Sam Olivera : There are ways of making you talk. I can throw you in the jug for obstructing justice.
Johnny Midnight : Oh, sure. You can also send me to the goldfish room and massage me with a length of rubber hose, too. You wanna try that?
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Sgt. Sam Olivera : You sure you're all right, Johnny?
Johnny Midnight : I feel like a dime's worth of dog meat, but I'm not outta my skull if that's what you mean.
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Johnny Midnight : Maybe there is something in the "bad seed" theory, something your real parents passed onto you.
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[last lines]
Aki : How do we always come up with these third act curtains, Johnny?
Johnny Midnight : We live over a theater, Aki.