Sterling Hayden credited as playing...
Dix Handley
- Dix Handley: Don't bone me!
- Cobby: Now, look, I'm not boning you.
- Dix Handley: Did I ever welsh?
- Cobby: Nobody said you did.
- Dix Handley: You just boned me!
- Cobby: [Telephone rings twice; Cobby answers] Yeah, hello, hello. Yeah, this is Cobby. What?
- Cobby: [Cobby gets off the telephone in to talk to Dix and Doc] It's Gus. Dragnet's out and they're combing the district.
- Cobby: [Cobby holds out telephone] He wants to talk to you. You, Dix.
- Dix Handley: [Dix takes telephone from Cobby; Cobby leaves] Gus, Dix.
- Gus Minissi: [the scene switches from Cobby's hideout to a telephone booth where Gus is; Gus talks to Dix] Yeah, now, listen careful, pal. The cops are knocking over all the joints along the boulevard. There's mobs of them, meat wagons and all. Now, look, I already called the guy, Eddie Donato. Donato's got a grocery down by the river. 116 Front Street, you got that?
- Dix Handley: [Dix's voice is heard through the telephone] Yeah.
- Gus Minissi: Okay.
- Dix Handley: [a police car rolls into the scene outside of the telephone booth] Thanks, Gus. Say, how's Louie?
- Gus Minissi: Louie's not so good. He got a slug in his belly, all right. Doc's doing all he can. Uh, here they are now, the happiness boys.
- Gus Minissi: [a policeman bangs on the telephone booth and motions Gus to get out of the booth so that he can use it. Gus chuckles, turns and waves to him] Hello. How are you, yeah?
- Gus Minissi: [Gus turns back to talk to Dix] Looks like I'm in...
- Gus Minissi: [Policeman bangs on the booth again] ... for a working over. Look, go down to Eddie's by way of the...
- Gus Minissi: [Policeman bangs on booth for the third time] ... old car barn.
- Gus Minissi: [Gus turns and waves to the policeman; turns back to talk to Dix] Yeah, it's deserted at night. Once you get beyond that...
- Gus Minissi: [Policeman bangs on booth for the fourth time] ... you're okay. The cops never bother Eddie's neighborhood. So long, Dix. Blow now...
- Gus Minissi: [Policeman bangs booth for the fifth and final time] ... eh?
- Gus Minissi: [Gus turns and waves to the policeman; He hangs up and makes his way out of the telephone booth] All right, all right, all right.
- Doc Riedenschneider: Ever been in Mexico City, Dix?
- Dix Handley: Nope.
- Doc Riedenschneider: It's 8000 feet up. The air is very pure. Many first-class clubs, restaurants, a horse track and girls. Beautiful young girls. How would you like to go there, all expenses paid?
- Dix Handley: Sorry, Doc, not interested. I'm heading home.
- Doc Riedenschneider: Listen, Dix. You can always go home. And when you do, it's nothing. Believe me. I've done it. Nothing.
- Cobby: How can things go so wrong? How is it possible? One man killed, two others plugged. I'm out 30 grand. We got a load of rocks we can't even peddle.
- Dix Handley: Quit crying and get me some bourbon.
- Dix Handley: That squarehead. He's a funny little guy. I don't get him at all.
- Doll Conovan: Maybe it's because he's a foreigner. They just don't think like us.