Bullets or Ballots (1936)

Barton MacLane: Al Kruger

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• Al Kruger : It's a top job, all right, but it's the last one a guy ever holds. There's only one way out.

• Al Kruger : Oh, we don't believe in letting the bank handle our records.

  Johnny Blake : Yeah, I noticed that.

• Al Kruger : The boys think you're working for him. I'm wondering.

  'Bugs' Fenner : I'm not.

• Johnny Blake : But I didn't get much out of you the last time I gave you a going-over.

  Al Kruger : You came close to it.

  Johnny Blake : I wish I'd known it then. You'd have got some more. I wanted to get you on that rap.

• Mr. Hollister : I'd still look around if I were you, Mr. Kruger, because if you make just one more mistake, you're through.

  Al Kruger : What do you mean, through?

  Mr. Hollister : There's just one way to interpret it. That's all, Mr. Kruger.

• Al Kruger : Why, I've heard guys that you've sent to prison say that if you ever made a deal, you'd see yourself dead before you'd go back on it.

• 'Bugs' Fenner : You know, that hat on the bed might be bad luck.

  Al Kruger : For you or for me?

• Al Kruger : You've got him wrong, Nick.

  'Bugs' Fenner : Yeah, well, he's still a cop to me.

  Al Kruger : Well, if it makes you happy, you keep right on thinking so.

• Al Kruger : Not bad for one week's take on pinball games.

  Johnny Blake : I wouldn't cry about it.

• Al Kruger : Who threatened Bryant?

  'Bugs' Fenner : I don't know. But, it's about time somebody told him to pipe down. He's been doing enough yelling in his papers without making those pictures.

  Al Kruger : Ah, he's just racing his motor.

  'Bugs' Fenner : Yeah, well, he's racing it so loud the public's liable to wake up one of these days.

  Al Kruger : The public's been played for a sucker so long they'll never wake up.

• [first lines] 

  Al Kruger : What time does the crime picture start?

• 'Bugs' Fenner : What's he talking about?

  Al Kruger : You know what he's talking about, you 10-cent thug!