This Man Is News (1938)

Edward Lexy: Inspector Holly

Quotes 

• Inspector Hollis : Well, it's your own fault. There's someone doing their level best to kill you, and you can't even tell me why.

  Simon Drake : I see. If I want peace, I've got to help you to solve your mystery, have I? All right, tell me how I can help.

• Simon Drake : I hope that big sergeant downstairs is trustworthy, Holly. I don't like the way he looked at my pipe.

  Inspector Hollis : Oh, don't you worry about that, Drake. I'll look after that myself.

• Inspector Hollis : [to Sergeant Bright]  Look here, Lothario, I brought you here to dodge the assistant commissioner, and not to indulge your unbridled passions.

  Sergeant Bright : Oh, I say.

• Inspector Hollis : Nice state of affairs - when a man can't even go into his own office for fear of meeting his own chief.

• Simon Drake : Now, won't you assume, just for the sake of argument, that maybe I'm not a homicidal maniac?

  Inspector Hollis : Where does that get us?

  Simon Drake : That's better.

• Inspector Hollis : Why should this mysterious person want to frame you? Why should anyone want to kill you?

  Pat Drake : I can see you haven't lived with him for a couple of years!