The Dark Corner (1946)

Mark Stevens: Bradford Galt

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Quotes 

• Kathleen : You should have William Powell for a secretary.

  Bradford Galt : William Powell... who's he?

  Kathleen : Don't ya ever go to the movies? He's a detective, in "The Thin Man."

• Bradford Galt : There goes my last lead. I feel all dead inside. I'm backed up in a dark corner, and I don't know who's hitting me.

• Bradford Galt : I'll be at the Cathcart galleries absorbing culture. I don't want to die ignorant.

• Kathleen Stewart : I've never been followed before.

  Bradford Galt : That's a terrible reflection on American manhood.

• Bradford Galt : You know, I think I'll fire you and get me a Tahitian secretary.

  Kathleen Stewart : You won't like them; those grass skirts are a fire hazard.

• Bradford Galt : I can be framed easier than "Whistler's Mother".

• Bradford Galt : [replying to Anthony Jardine]  You, on the level. Why, for six bits you'd hang your mother on a meathook.

• Bradford Galt : I'm clean as a peeled egg. No debts, no angry husbands, no payoffs... nothin'.

• Bradford Galt : One thing led to another, and he led with his right.

• Miss Dennis, Saleswoman : This is one of Donatello's finest pieces.

  Bradford Galt : How much is it?

  Miss Dennis, Saleswoman : $40,000.

  Bradford Galt : Wrap it up.

• Kathleen : My father was a major-league umpire. Well, what else

  [at the Tudor Penny Arcade] 

  Kathleen : can I beat you at?

  Bradford Galt : What other kinds of games do you like to play? You know, we've got some great playgrounds up around 52nd Street.

  Kathleen : Among them your apartment?

  Bradford Galt : Why, just a coincidence.

  Kathleen : I haven't worked for you very long, Mr. Galt, but I know when you're pitching a curve at me, and I always carry a catcher's mitt.

  Bradford Galt : No offense. A guy's got to score, doesn't he?

  Kathleen : Not in my league. I don't play for score, I play for keeps - "said she with a smile."

• Bradford Galt : Why don't you come over here, where you belong?

  [Bradford pats the couch that he is laying on] 

  Kathleen : [Kathleen throws Bradford his mended suit jacket and proceeds to walk out Bradford's front door]  Well, if you're feeling that much better, perhaps I better go home.

  [scene fades] 

• Kathleen : But remember, I can get brand new tough guys for a dime a dozen.

  Bradford Galt : Here, get yourself two dozen.

  [Bradford tosses two dimes at Kathleen across the table] 

  Kathleen : [Kathleen pushes them back towards Bradford]  I'd rather pick you up at a rummage sale. I'm a sucker for bargains. Speaking of bargains, if you can't get nines in those nylons, I'll take eight-and-a-half or even ten. Doesn't matter.

  Bradford Galt : I'll make a note of it.

• Bradford Galt : The stain... The ink, baby, the ink. I smeared ink on his white suit up in my office.

  Kathleen Stewart : What of it?

  Bradford Galt : He'd have to have the suit cleaned, wouldn't he? The cleaners would have his address, wouldn't they?

  Kathleen Stewart : Well, this is a pretty dirty town. Cleaning places grow on every street like mushrooms.

  Bradford Galt : Yeah, but they don't do their own cleaning.