Time to Kill (1942)

Ethel Griffies: Mrs. Murdock

Quotes 

• Mrs. Murdock : When I say 10 o'clock, I don't mean 9:50, not 9:59, I mean 10 o'clock!

  Michael Shayne : Well, Mrs. Murdoch, you know what the book says about the early bird.

  Mrs. Murdock : There are no worms here.

  Michael Shayne : Well, you can't tell what you're liable to find in an old barn like this.

• Mrs. Murdock : Oh, you're not quite what I expected, Mr. Shayne.

  Michael Shayne : Well, what did you expect - top hat, striped trousers and cutaway?

  Mrs. Murdock : Hardly - something fat and exported with dirty fingernails chewing on a filthy cigar butt and with its hat on its head.

• [Mrs. Murdoch suspects her gold-digging daughter-in-law of stealing and selling one of her most valuable coins] 

  Michael Shayne : So what's worrying you the most?

  Mrs. Murdock : Both. I'm hiring you to get the doubloon back and arrange for a divorce for my son without cost to me.

  Michael Shayne : Suppose she didn't take it?

  Mrs. Murdock : I expect you to prove that she did and I'm asking no questions.