The Glass Key (1942)

Alan Ladd: Ed Beaumont

Photos 

16 more photos

Quotes 

• Paul Madvig : I'm going to society. He's practically given me the key to his house.

  Ed Beaumont : Yeah, a glass key. Be sure it doesn't break in your hand.

• Ed Beaumont : You're gonna die laughing.

• Nurse : Are you awake? There's a lady here to see you.

  Ed Beaumont : What kind of a lady?

  Nurse : Miss Janet Henry.

  Ed Beaumont : Tell her to go away.

  Nurse : I can't do that. She knows you're better.

  Ed Beaumont : When are we gonna be alone again?

  Nurse : *Never* if I can help it.

  Ed Beaumont : Then I suppose I'll *have* to see her.

  Nurse : No wonder people *beat* you up.

• Ed Beaumont : What'll we talk about?

  Janet Henry : You.

  [pause] 

  Janet Henry : Comfortable here?

  Ed Beaumont : More or less.

  Janet Henry : No fun?

  Ed Beaumont : No fun.

  Janet Henry : Hasn't your *nurse* been treating you well?

  Ed Beaumont : Not as well as I'd like.

  Janet Henry : Poor boy. If I'd known you were being neglected, I would have come sooner.

• [to Janet Henry] 

  Ed Beaumont : I get along very well with Paul because he's on the dead up-and-up. Why don't *you* try it sometime?

• Jeff : Well, if it ain't sock-me-again Beaumont!

  Ed Beaumont : Hello, Jeff.

  Jeff : Hey, Gang! Meet the swellest guy I ever skinned a knuckle on.

• Jeff : We're gonna have a little drink.

  Ed Beaumont : Okay.

  [Walks to the bar] 

  Jeff : No, not with these mugs!

  [Directs Ed toward the stairs] 

  Jeff : I got just the place for me and you - a little room upstairs that's too small for you to fall down in. I can bounce you around off the walls. That way we won't be wasting a lot of time while you get up off the floor.

  [Turns to the crowd] 

  Jeff : Excuse us, gents. We gotta go up and play handball. Me and Cuddles.

• Ed Beaumont : [Mock toasting Jeff]  Here's lookin' at ya.

  Jeff : I don't wanna look at you. You're a heel.

• [to the waiter, after Jeff has strangled Nick Varna] 

  Ed Beaumont : Get the cops. Better get a doctor, too, in case Varna's not dead.

  Jeff : Better get an undertaker in case he is.

  [laughs] 

• [Jeff has just strangled Nick Varna] 

  Ed Beaumont : Take it easy, Jeff.

  Jeff : I'm just a big, good-natured slob. Anybody can push me around all they want to. And I never do anything about it.

  [laughs]