Another Thin Man (1939)

Muriel Hutchison: Smitty

Quotes 

• Smitty : Say, I thought this was strictly business.

  Phil Church : You know I could go for you

  Smitty : Don't give me that. I've been fooled too many times.

  Phil Church : You love me, don't ya?

  Smitty : What if I do? I'm only in this for the coin.

  Phil Church : We'll have plenty of coin from now on, baby.

  Smitty : We?

  Phil Church : You and me. What do you say? You wanna play for keeps?

  Smitty : Okay.

  [Kiss] 

• Nick Charles : Thanks for not shooting me.

  Smitty : Oh, well that'd only of made things worse.

• Smitty : Nothing can stop that boy.

  'Diamond Back' Vogel : He's a smart little guy.

  Smitty : Too smart. Seven years I've been married to him and he's so slick he hasn't been outta the can long enough to finish our honeymoon!

  'Diamond Back' Vogel : Don't seem to be breakin' your heart.

• 'Diamond Back' Vogel : You spend a lot of time with this guy, Church, don't you?

  Smitty : Don't start that again. He's just a friend, like I told ya.

  'Diamond Back' Vogel : A guy can get to be too good a friend, like I told you.

• Van Slack : How long have you known Church?

  Smitty : Just since they sprung him.

  Van Slack : Didn't take you long to tie up with him, did it?

  Smitty : We weren't playing for keeps. I was only stoogin' for him.

  Van Slack : Stooging?

  Smitty : Oh, there are a lot of rackets where it's handy to have a girl around.

  Van Slack : Blackmail rackets?

  Smitty : I mean a lot of rackets - except murder.

• Smitty : I hate these schemes where all the pieces have to fit together. Too many things can go wrong.

  Phil Church : We can't miss.

  Smitty : I wish you'd dream up some way to get that Nick Charles out of there. I don't trust him. He looks like a guy with insomnia to me.

  Phil Church : I don't like him around, but I don't see how he can gum our game. It was air tight without him. It'll be air tight with him.

• 'Diamond Back' Vogel : When's he going to Cuba?

  Smitty : How did you know he was going?

  'Diamond Back' Vogel : I get around.

• Phil Church : Some day I'm gonna skin a knuckle on that four-eyed gent.

  Smitty : You better catch him without the cheaters on. He's plenty good as long as he can see.

• Smitty : Now, maybe I ought to know a little bit more about the ends-and-outs of what your doin'.

  Phil Church : What's the matter? Losing confidence in me since I stopped that punch?

  Smitty : No. I haven't got that much sense.

• Smitty : Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

• Van Slack : Where's Church?

  Smitty : I donno. He and Dum-Dum left here about eleven o'clock last night. I ain't seen or heard of him since.

• Smitty : Why, you big ape!

  Van Slack : What's the answer?

  'Diamond Back' Vogel : Her husband's a pal of mine. He's been hanging on the wall of state. You know how those guys get to worryin'. I've been sort of keepin' an eye on her for him.

  Smitty : So, that's what's been going on.

  'Diamond Back' Vogel : What do you think has been going on? You don't think I've been hanging around because I was nuts about you, do you?

  [to Van Slack] 

  'Diamond Back' Vogel : I hear Church is going away? For all I know this cluck might think she's going with him.

• Smitty : You dirty rat! You'd beat your own mother, you would!