Song of the Thin Man (1947)
William Powell: Nick Charles
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Quotes
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Nick Charles : I got a great idea.
Nora Charles : What is it?
Nick Charles : Let's go home.
Nora Charles : What's at home?
Nick Charles : You, my pipe, my slippers.
Nora Charles : Nickie, you're slipping.
Nick Charles : Darling, give me my pipe, slippers & a beautiful woman... and you can keep the pipe and slippers.
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Nick Charles : If the party gets rough, duck.
Nora Charles : I'm practically under the table now, but not the way I like to be.
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Italian Boatman : Hey, you, get out of the boat.
Nick Charles : Who are you?
Italian Boatman : Get out of my boat, that's who I am.
Nick Charles : Look, how'd you like to make yourself a quick five dollars?
Italian Boatman : Get into the boat.
Nick Charles : I just want you to row me out to that gambling ship.
Italian Boatman : Get out of the boat.
Nick Charles : Twenty-five dollars.
Italian Boatman : Get into the boat. For twenty-five dollars, I give you the boat.
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Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : [utters impenetrable stream of jazz-cat hipster argot]
Nick Charles : Mrs. Charles always wears her mouth open with this outfit.
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Nora Charles : [about Phyllis Talbin] Stunning jewelry. Those earrings...
Nick Charles : [looking off in the direction of Phyllis] Very attractive!
Nora Charles : Earrings are higher up.
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Asta, the Charles' Dog : [Sniffing on the floor, while Nick searches for clues] Arrr. Arrrrrrrrrr.
Nick Charles : What's the excitement boy? Huh? It's just a razor blade. No. No, it couldn't have been Somerset Maugham.
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Nick Charles : Where can I find this whacked-up character?
Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Oh, he's been boucin' around from place-to-place, lately. You'll probably dig him in one of the jam joints.
Nick Charles : Come again?
Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Dig him in one of the jam joints! Where the boys go after closin' and really ride. Just for cats and intellectuals. The rooty-toots and bobbie soxers verboten. Solid.
Nick Charles : Well, I don't wear bobbie soxes; but, would you say I'm a rooty-toot?
Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Strictly. But, I guess I can ace you in.
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Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : It's Fran! Fran Page, Hollis' old flame.
Nick Charles : Unless I got my photographs mixed, she had a fire left over for Mr. Drake too.
Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Yeah, the 88 man grabbed her off and then he give her the Fuller.
Nick Charles : The Fuller?
Nora Charles : The brush. The brush.
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Mug #1 : Gee, we sure get a gentrier plateau with these charity shindigs.
Mug #2 : Especially the dames. What class! What refinement! What cultured tomatoes! Hey, get a load of that one. Yoo-hoo!
Nick Charles : [Turns around to face the mugs] Boys, boys, in polite society, we don't say, Yoo-hoo. We say Yoo-whom.
Mug #1 : Nick, hi!
Mug #2 : Hi!
Nick Charles : You remember Mrs. Charles.
Mug #1 : Hi!
Mug #2 : Hi!
Nora Charles : You took the words right out of my mouth.
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Nick Charles : You shouldn't have talked that way to my friends. They're very sensitive.
Nora Charles : I didn't mean to hurt them. I love them. They're perfect gentlemen - right down to their fingerprints.
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Nick Charles Jr. : I knew Roy shouldn't have trusted that Arsenic Annie. She's a man dressed in woman's clothes.
Nick Charles : Annie's a man?
Nick Charles Jr. : Sure. It's a dead giveaway a dame would never pass a mirror like that without looking to see if her slip was showing.
Nora Charles : Dame?
Nick Charles Jr. : Well, that's what Daddy always says.
Nick Charles : I never say dame. I always say doll - eh, dish. Well, anyway, it was a very shrewd deduction.
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Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : No, no, no, no, no. Swinging the classics is strictly off the cars.
Nick Charles : Taxi!
Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : A gate who knows his Dodge, takes his Beethoven and his Brahms straight. You know what I mean?
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Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : I want you to meet a couple of friends of mine. Mellow Man Magee and the Missus. Hottest pump man in Memphis.
Nick Charles : Second hottest.
Mitchell Talbin : Do you play an instrument too?
Nora Charles : No, I'm a mud hen, eh, a bird, a canary.
Mitchell Talbin : A canary?
Nora Charles : Strictly from Tennessee!
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Nick Charles : The prettier the bait, the better the catch.
Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Come again?
Nick Charles : That's an old saying I just made up.
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Nick Charles : You wouldn't advance him the twelve thousand? Even though you knew Amboy was preparing a cement kimono for him?
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Nick Charles : [to Nora] You know, if this rampage of respectability persists, we'll have buy you a bullet proof girdle.
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Mug #1 : Whatchu doin' at a clambake like this? You ain't detectivin', are ya?
Nick Charles : Mrs. Charles thinks that we should cultivate some people who haven't served time.
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Nora Charles : Nicky, the police do make mistakes!
Nick Charles : Yes, there's a cheerful thought. Just what I've been thinking.
Nora Charles : Of course, if you were on the case...
Nora Charles , Nick Charles : there would be no mistake.
Nick Charles : You're positively sadistic the way you drag me to work.
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Nick Charles : Shall we go?
Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Go? Oh, oh, the dust don't start risin' till deuce of bells.
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Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Penthouse, you know. These Talbin jams are the tops! But, it's like I told you, strictly for gates and gutbusters. Hey, I tell you what, you're a slush pump man.
Nick Charles : Come again?
Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Da-da-da-da! Strictly from Memphis. And you, you're a canary. Strictly from Memphis.
Nora Charles : Canary?
Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Well, I could say you pluck a hot harp.
Nora Charles : If Mr. Charles doesn't find that receipt, he'll be plucking a harp.
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Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Ooo, dig that music. It sends me outta this world!
Nick Charles : It should have sent you a little sooner.
Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Yeah!
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Nora Charles : [Referring to Mrs. Talbin] Stunning jewelry. Those earrings.
Nick Charles : [Staring at Mrs. Talbin leaving] Very attractive.
Nora Charles : The earrings are higher up.
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Nora Charles : Are you through with crime?
Nick Charles : No, I'm going to bed.
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Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Fran, this is Mr. and Mrs. Nick Charles.
Nick Charles : How do you do? Well, you were a, you were very jivie, a hep warbler.
Nora Charles : Mr. Charles is a bit of a shom.
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Nick Charles : Cracked minds play funny tricks on you. And, by the same token, you can play funny tricks on cracked minds.
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Nora Charles : What do you get out of it?
Nick Charles : A sudden urge to merge.