Algiers (1938)

Joseph Calleia: Slimane

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• Inspector Slimane : When one can't use guns, one must work with brains.

  Commissioner Janvier : I prefer guns!

  Inspector Slimane : In your case, honest sir, such a preference is unavoidable.

• Inspector Slimane : You're important now because you're free. Once you're behind bars, people forget all about you.

• Commissioner Janvier : By his looks, I'd say he was too lazy to make an arrest.

  Inspector Slimane : I'm merely careful.

  Commissioner Janvier : Which means to say that you're looking out for your own skin.

  Inspector Slimane : It's the only skin I have.

• Pepe le Moko : You know what I like about you?

  Inspector Slimane : No. But, I'm humbly waiting for you to tell me.

  Pepe le Moko : Your face. It's a perfect face for your job. To look that false is almost the equivalent of being honest.

• Inspector Slimane : I'm sorry, Pepe. He thought you were going to escape.

  Pepe le Moko : And so I have, my friend.

• Inspector Slimane : To arrest him in the Casbah, distinguished colleague, would be simple. To get him out, would be impossible.

• Inspector Slimane : Was there anything special about her?

  Pepe le Moko : Yes. Pearls. The color I like. Handcuffs I can appreciate. Platinum and diamonds. And she didn't buy that perfume in Algiers.

  Inspector Slimane : So, all you noticed was the jewels and perfume?

  Pepe le Moko : Was there anything else?

  Inspector Slimane : What about the eyes?

  Pepe le Moko : Well, they all have eyes. But, all of that chichi and jingle - you don't see much of that in the Casbah.

  Inspector Slimane : But you do where she comes from.

• Inspector Slimane : So, you're the one to betray him. You couldn't wait to run to me. You call it love; but, it means you'd kill him before you'd let him go free. That's what you've done. As sure as if you'd held a gun in your hands.

• Inspector Slimane : I thought I'd figured all of the moves. I miscalculated. I didn't think of you.

• Andre Giraux : I was puzzled when you phoned.

  Inspector Slimane : My mission is rather a delicate one. But, necessary. I merely wish to suggest that your fiancée is a little too fond of - shall we say, the local color of the Casbah.

  Andre Giraux : What is all this?

  Inspector Slimane : The Casbah's hardly the place for a woman alone. She attracts too much attention, excites too much desire.

• Pepe le Moko : He's funny, my friend Slimane. He looks normal, doesn't he? But, he has delusions of grandeur. He thinks he can arrest me.

  Inspector Slimane : Exactly what I'm going to do, Pepe.

  Pepe le Moko : Sure. Sure-sure-sure-sure. How you make me laugh.

• Inspector Slimane : How is Carlos?

  Tania : How should he be?

  Inspector Slimane : Don't tell me your charming husband has been beating you again?

  Tania : You know how it is with a man.

  Inspector Slimane : Well, I can't say I do.

  Tania : They seem to take to it naturally.

• Inspector Slimane : We had one rather unpleasant experience.

  Pepe le Moko : Yeah?

  Inspector Slimane : With you.

  Pepe le Moko : She didn't think so.

• Pepe le Moko : What did she say?

  Inspector Slimane : Well, you know women. They talk about nothing. I hardly listen.