Ransom! (1956)

Glenn Ford: David G. Stannard

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• David G. Stannard : [home from work 2 hours early, getting intimate with his wife]  Now I see why the unemployed have so many children.

• Police Chief Jim Backett : You could pay the ransom, and get your boy back, or you could not pay and not get him back.

  Charlie Telfer : Or you could refuse to pay, and lose. Or you could refuse to pay, and you still get him back. You see, Stannard, the odds are still 2 to 1 in your favor.

  David G. Stannard : You mean my paying the ransom won't affect the odds of my getting him back at all? Then why pay? Why do people pay?

  Police Chief Jim Backett : It'd be easier for police if nobody did.

  David G. Stannard : What do you mean?

  Charlie Telfer : No ransom, no kidnapping racket, no profit margin.

• David G. Stannard : When you catch that kidnapper, I want you to lock me in a room with him for 20 minutes and throw away the key. Anybody should have that right with the man who steals his kid!

• David G. Stannard : Hot or cold, I have to press on like my son's still alive. That's the barrel they have me over. They don't have to trust me. I have to trust them.

  Charlie Telfer : Exactly. Trick, or treat.