Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
James Gleason: Police Insp. Oscar Piper
Quotes
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Police Insp. Oscar Piper : [sarcastically] Hildegarde, you're as funny as a cry for help.
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Police Insp. Oscar Piper : [In frustration] Well, I'm a speckled ape!
Hildegarde Withers : [Dryly] This is no time for a confession, Oscar.
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Police Insp. Oscar Piper : Hildegarde, this may be what the French call a crime of passion.
Hildegarde Withers : Oscar, don't you think we ought to try to keep this case clean?
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Police Insp. Oscar Piper : [as Hildegarde tries to get into the police car with Oscar] Well, where do you think you're goin'? What are you always following me for?
Hildegarde Withers : I don't know, Oscar. I guess it's because you always bring out the mother in me.
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Police Insp. Oscar Piper : [Seeing Hildegarde going through a pair of empty pants] Are you sure you were never married?
Hildegarde Withers : There's a time and place to be funny.
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Hildegarde Withers : How can you find out if a man has false teeth?
Police Insp. Oscar Piper : Get 'im mad enough to bite yuh.
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Police Insp. Oscar Piper : There ain't a dame on earth I can't forget in six months.
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Police Insp. Oscar Piper : I don't see why I always have to miss my breakfast for these accidents!
Hildegarde Withers : [Arriving on the scene to hear Oscar's complaint] I had an uncle who thought the World War would have been an accident.