Eyes in the Night (1942)

Edward Arnold: Duncan Maclain

Quotes 

• Hansen : Oh, you're blind sir?

  Duncan Maclain : Blind as a bat!

  Hansen : Excuse me sir I'm terribly sorry.

  Duncan Maclain : What is there to be sorry about? Plenty of great men were blind - Milton, Homer, they were blind, weren't they?

  Hansen : Yes, but they complained about it.

  Duncan Maclain : Oh, they did?

  Hansen : Yes sir. "O loss of sight, of thee I must complain! Blind among enemies, O, worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age..."

• Duncan Maclain : Any blood stains on the rug?

  Marty : The rug is like the body, there ain't any, not in front of the fireplace.

• Norma Lawry : What I really need is someone to commit a murder for me.

  Duncan Maclain : Oh, I can do that for you any time you want. Who's the victim?

  Norma Lawry : Do you remember Paul Gerente?

  Duncan Maclain : Yes, the dreariest leading man you ever had, and when you told me that you were engaged to him, I wanted to take you over my knee.

  Norma Lawry : Well, he's back. He's back in my life again. He's the leading man in that summer theater near our home, and he's making love to my step-daughter Barbara. She's 17. She's very headstrong--well, she's completely gone on him. She's Steven's only child. He adores her, and for Steven's sake as well as her own I simply had to tell her what a rotter Paul is.