All Through the Night (1942)

Conrad Veidt: Ebbing

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Quotes 

• Franz Ebbing : You realize you will never get out of here. Every entrance is guarded.

  Alfred "Gloves" Donahue : Aaah, don't try that line on me, Jack. This is Broadway, not Berlin!

  Franz Ebbing : It's a great pity, Mr. Donahue, that you and I should oppose each other. We have so much in common.

  Alfred "Gloves" Donahue : Yeah? How's that?

  Franz Ebbing : You are a man of action. You take what you want, and so do we. You have no respect for democracy - neither do we. It's clear we should be allies.

  Alfred "Gloves" Donahue : It's clear you are screwy. I've been a refistered Democrat ever since I could vote. I may not be Model Citizen Number One, but I pay my taxes, wait for traffic lights, and buy 24 tickets to the Policeman's Ball. Brother, don't get me mixed up in no league that rubs out innocent bakers and...

  [Shoots an alarm buzzer thar Ebbing was about to push] 

  Franz Ebbing : [Taken aback by the accuracy of the shot]  Excellent! Did you learn that in one of your gang wars?

  Alfred "Gloves" Donahue : No, that's a little trick I picked up in Benny's Shootin' Gallery in Coney Island, and if you don't quit stallin', I'll show you some other tricks I learned in Brooklyn.

• [Gloves and Ebbing are in a boat filled with explosives] 

  Franz Ebbing : You're not afraid to die, are you?

  Alfred "Gloves" Donahue : I don't mind dying, but I hate to be divided up into small pieces.

• Franz Ebbing : ...discontent and confusion. Do you ever look at the faces of these Americans as they read the headlines? Already we have split them into angry little groups flying at each other, unconscious they are doing our work.