A Slight Case of Murder (1938)

Edward G. Robinson: Remy Marco

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• Remy Marco : Hey, what's this? "Dear Boss, We've taken a half hour off. Mike." You know, I'm getting a little discouraged about Mike.

  Nora Marco : You ought to. After all you've done for him and give him.

  Remy Marco : Oh no, it ain't that. It's just that I can't learn him how to spell. Look at the way he spells 'token', with two o's.

• Remy Marco : Sure, I'm legit. I'm in favor of law and order. But you don't have to have it right in your own house, do you?

• Remy Marco : Come on in, honey, into the music room.

  Nora Marco : Music room? Up to now this has always been the slot machine room.

  Remy Marco : Well, that's all going to be changing now. We got to start putting on plenty of class. Oh, and by the way, have Mike take the spittoons out of the living room.

• Remy Marco : Now you heard me, stick here. Now, you're getting spoiled. Always thinking of your own pleasure. Come on, boys.

• Remy Marco : But first I want you to meet some of the folks and have a little fun, you know. They're old friends of mine... great people!

  Mr. Whitewood : I've met some of them already.

  Remy Marco : Yeah?

  Mr. Whitewood : Some rather whimsical ones.

  Remy Marco : Who? Oh... , the only one who sings here is the singer. Never studied a note in his life.

  Mr. Whitewood : Yes, I can hear that.

• Nora Marco : It's that grab bag of yours again, Remy.

  Remy Marco : Say he hadn't walked around in his bare feet.

  Nora Marco : I think we should go up and slip him a Mickey Finn.

  Remy Marco : Uh, uh. He's liable to create a taste for them. Marco will talk to him. You go up the front stairs and I'll go up the back.

• Lefty : [Helping carry out four dead bodies]  That's just the kind of a dirty trick those guys would pull, leaving themselves in that kind of shape around your house.

  Remy Marco : Yeah, you know, that Little Dutch never had no consideration for other people's feelings.

• Mike : You know who them fellas are?

  Remy Marco : Who are they?

  Mike : One of them is Little Dutch, then there's No Nose Cohen, Blackhat Gallagher, and a guy I don't know. He must be a total stranger.

  Nora Marco : What difference does it make who they are? I don't care anything about them and I don't want them there.

  Remy Marco : Now listen, Nora. Those are the guys I had trouble with in the old days. They tried to see me a couple of times before.

  Mike : Yeah, the trouble with them guys is they could never get the idea out of their heads that they had a right to that brewery just because they started it.

  Remy Marco : Yeah, but the worst of it is what would people think, finding them this way in my own house.

  Nora Marco : You can't get back in the papers now, of all times. Think what it would mean to Mary... and the Whitewoods.

  Remy Marco : Aw, the Whitewoods. Think what it would mean to Marko's beer.

  Nora Marco : All right then, get those people out of this house. I don't care what you do with them, but get them out of here quietly. I'll keep Mary upstairs with me.

  Mike : They got plenty of artillery, too.

  Remy Marco : Yeah, well we'd better hide it. Say, I'll wisen up the boys. They'll be interested.

  Mike : Okay.

  Remy Marco : Hey Mike.

  Mike : Yeah?

  Remy Marco : Which one of them had the king full? Little Dutch?

  Mike : Yeah.

  Remy Marco : I thought so. Lucky fink, that Little Dutch.