Pickup on South Street

1953

Skip McCoy: (after first kiss with Candy) Sometimes you look for oil, you hit a gusher.

Skip McCoy: I know you pinched me three times and got me convicted three times and made me a three time loser. And I know you took an oath to put me away for life. Well you're trying awful hard with all this patriotic eye-wash, but get this: I didn't grift that film and you can't prove I did! And if I said I did, you'd slap that fourth rap across my teeth no matter what promises you made!

Skip McCoy: So you're a Red, who cares? Your money's as good as anybody else's.

Skip McCoy: You boys are talking to the wrong corner. I'm just a guy keeping my hands in my own pockets. FBI Agent Zara: If you refuse to cooperate you'll be as guilty as the traitors who gave Stalin the A-bomb. Skip McCoy: Are you waving the flag at *me*?

Capt Dan Tiger: You'll always be a two-bit cannon. And when they pick you up in the gutter dead, you're hand'll be in a drunk's pocket.

Skip McCoy: Pack up the pitch with the charge or drive me back to my shack. Capt Dan Tiger: I'll drive you back in a hearse if you don't get the kink out of your mouth!

Candy: You've been recommended as the best pickpocket stoolie in the business. Moe Williams: What kind of talk is that, calling me a stoolie? I was brought up to report any injustice to the police authority. I call that being a solid citizen. Candy: But you get paid for it. Moe Williams: You gonna knock it?

Moe Williams: You got any Happy Money? Candy: Happy Money? Moe Williams: Yeah, money that's gonna make me happy.

Moe Williams: What's the matter with you? Playing footsie with the Commies! Skip McCoy: You waving the flag, too? Moe Williams: Listen, I knew you since you was a little kid. You was always a regular kind of crook. I never figured you for a louse. Skip McCoy: Stop, you're breaking my heart. Moe Williams: Even in our crummy line of business you gotta draw the line somewhere.

Moe Williams: I have to go on making a living so I can die. But even a fancy funeral ain't worth waiting for if I've gotta do business with crumbs like you.

Moe Williams: I've got almost enough to buy both the stone and the plot. Capt Dan Tiger: If you lost that kitty, it's Potter's Field. Moe Williams: This I do not think is a very funny joke, Captain Tiger! Capt Dan Tiger: I just meant you ought to be careful how you carry your bankroll. Moe Williams: Look, Tiger, if I was to be buried in Potter's Field, it would just about kill me.

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