Touch of Evil (1958)
Charlton Heston: Mike Vargas
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Quotes
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.
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Vargas : This isn't the real Mexico. You know that. All border towns bring out the worst in a country. I can just imagine your mother's face if she could see our honeymoon hotel.
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Well, Captain, I'm afraid this is finally something you can't talk your way out of.
Quinlan : You want to bet?
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Dist. Atty. Adair : Well, here comes Hank at last. Vargas, you've heard of Hank Quinlan, our local police celebrity.
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : I'd like to meet him.
Coroner : That's what you think.
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Vargas : Listen, I'm no cop now. I'm a husband! What did you do with her? Where's my wife? My wife!
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Susie, one of the longest borders on earth is right here between your country and mine. An open border. Fourteen hundred miles without a single machine gun in place. Yeah, I suppose that all sounds very corny to you.
Susan : I could love being corny, if my husband would only cooperate.
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Quinlan : Our friend Vargas has some very special ideas about police procedures. He seems to think it don't matter whether the killer's hanged or not, as long as we obey the fine print in the rulebook.
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Captain, I don't think a policeman should work like a dog catcher.
Quinlan : No?
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Putting criminals behind bars, no! In any free country, a policeman is supposed to enforce the law and the law protects the guilty as well as the innocent.
Quinlan : Our job is tough enough.
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : It's supposed to be tough! It has to be tough.
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : This could be very bad for us.
Susan : For us?
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : For Mexico, I mean.
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : You are a policeman, aren't you?
Quinlan : Aren't you? You don't seem very fond of the job.
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : There are plenty of soldiers who don't like war.
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Who is the boss? The cop or the law?
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : You're an honest cop!
Pete Menzies : Sure, I am. And who made me an honest cop? Hank Quinlan.
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Come on, Menzies.
Pete Menzies : I am what I am because of him.
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Schwartz : Intuition?
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Why not? Quinlan doesn't have a monopoly on hunches.
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : I'm saying more than that, Captain. You framed that boy. Framed him!
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Vargas : [to Quinlan] What make you so very sure it was dynamite?
Quinlan : My leg.
Vargas : Your what?
Pete Menzies : His game leg. Sometimes he gets a kind of twinge, like folks do for a change of weather. "Intuition," he calls it.
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Can you tell me who's in charge here?
Blaine : I can't even tell you what happened.
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Blaine : Why aren't you back in Mexico City? Isn't that dope trial coming up?
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Grandi's? It's next Thursday. I'd hoped to go back on the morning plane.
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Quinlan : It was one of the Grandi kids.
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : What makes you so sure of that, Captain?
Quinlan : Intuition.
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Intuition?
Quinlan : Vargas and his Keystone Cops has given the Grandi family quite a few headaches lately.
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Quinlan : You say your wife was attacked.
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : I did not say she was attacked.
Quinlan : Did you say she was molested?
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Not physically molested, no.
Quinlan : Was obscene language used?
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : I don't think so.
Quinlan : How do you explain the fact that your wife allowed herself to be picked up by this good looking...
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : She was not picked up.
Dist. Atty. Adair : Now Hank, I think we're getting off on the wrong track here.
Quinlan : Then this good looking young man was a friend of hers?
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Obviously not.
Quinlan : You wouldn't call that getting picked up on the street?
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : It's a dirty job, enforcing the law; but, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : All I can say is if you are taking that plane, I'm very glad.
Susan : I am very glad that you are very glad.
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Captain, have you anything definite on this boy Sanchez?
Quinlan : Not yet. I'm just - going on my intuition.
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : [on the phone] Darling, the news is bad. Quinlan is about to arrest that boy Sanchez.
Susan : Oh, Mike, is that why you called? To tell me somebody's been arrested?
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : No. That's not really why I called. Its to tell you how sorry I am about all this. How very, very much I love you. - - Susie?
Susan : I'm still here, my own darling Miguel.
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : Oh, I thought maybe you'd fallen asleep.
Susan : Mmm. I was just listening to you breath. It's a lovely sound.
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Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : What seems to be the trouble?
Mirador Motel night manager : Trouble?
Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas : The lights. The lights seem to be out in all the cabins.
Mirador Motel night manager : Yes. Yes. Somebody's been monkeying in with them fuses. They think I'm gonna fix 'em, they, they got another thing comin'! It ain't my job to fix 'em. Even if I know how. I'm the night man.