Sabotage (1936)
John Loder: Detective Sgt. Ted Spencer
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Quotes
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Ted Spencer : [trying to calm crowd down demanding their money back after a power outage] It's an act of God, I tell you!
Member of Cinema Crowd : And what do you call an act of God?
Ted Spencer : I call your face one, and you won't get your money back on that.
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Mrs. Verloc : Thank you for your trouble. I'm sure you meant well.
Ted Spencer : Not at all. I like trouble.
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Ted Spencer : [looking at a menu] Now, Steve, setting aside the steak for a moment, we have here before us oysters, caviar, smoked salmon, fried, grilled or boiled sole...
Stevie : I'll have a...
Ted Spencer : Roast saddle of mutton, Kentish chicken pudding, boiled silverside, roast sirloin, chopped steaks, grilled kidneys or roast duck?
Mrs. Verloc : I think Stevie'd like a nice poached egg on toast and I'll have a mixed salad.
Ted Spencer : Here, drink this. Poached egg here at Simpsons? Why, that's enough to make the roast beef turn in its gravy. Three bullocks roasted whole, and a cup of coffee.
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Ted Spencer : There's a mystery about me! Come to think of it, there's a mystery about most people. Haven't you got some terrible secret?
Mrs. Verloc : Never mind about that.
Ted Spencer : What goes on after hours in that cinema of yours?
Mrs. Verloc : [sarcastically] Deeds of darkness.
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Superintendent Talbot : Well, what luck with Mrs. Verloc?
Ted Spencer : She knows nothing, sir, nothing at all.
Superintendent Talbot : What makes you think so?
Ted Spencer : She has a straight answer to everything, besides her manner.
Superintendent Talbot : Pretty woman?
Ted Spencer : What's that got to do with it, sir?
Superintendent Talbot : I know, I'm too tender-hearted myself, especially where women are concerned.
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Superintendent Talbot : The Home Office has been on and they're scared something worst than tonight's job may happen.
Ted Spencer : What's the idea, sir? What's the point of all this wrecking?
Superintendent Talbot : Making trouble at home to take our minds off of what's going on abroad. Same as in a crowd. One man treads on your toe and while you're arguing with him, his pal picks your pocket.
Ted Spencer : Who's behind it?
Superintendent Talbot : Ah, they're the people that you and I will never catch. It's the men they employ that we're after.
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Ted Spencer : If a plane were to come along and drop a bomb on you, that would be an unfriendly act within the meaning of the act. But, if the juice dries up on its own accord, that's an act of providence - as laid down in the Act of William the IV, where an act is defined as any activity actuated by actual action.
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Ted Spencer : Hello, Guv, going to the pictures?
Karl Anton Verloc : As a matter of fact, I'm off to a trade show.
Ted Spencer : Well, pick us a good one then, you know, with plenty of murders. This love stuff makes me sick.
Karl Anton Verloc : The women like it, though.