Crosswinds (1951)

John Payne: Steve Singleton

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• Katherine Shelley : See, you are running away.

  Steve Singleton : From what?

  Katherine Shelley : From the world.

• Steve Singleton : Unless a man wants to live on dried fish and coconuts, he has to run away from the world between jobs.

• Steve Singleton : He wants to make a deal with me to freeze out you and Sykes.

  Sir Cecil Daubrey : Understandable. Did you?

  Steve Singleton , Sir Cecil Daubrey : Well, I told him I'd like a little time to think it over. You see, I've had other offers.

  Sir Cecil Daubrey : Mousey?

  Steve Singleton : Surprised?

  Sir Cecil Daubrey : Not at all. I was about to make you an offer myself.

  Steve Singleton : I was rather hoping you would.

• Steve Singleton : The first sign of a double-cross from you two cockroaches and I'll pin faces with Johnson against you.

• Katherine Shelley : I heard the music, so I put two and two together and said to myself... mmm, you're cooking pancakes.

  Steve Singleton : You don't make sense, but you've got a pretty good sniffer.

• Gerald 'Jumbo' Johnson : Singleton, before we bring up these last two bars, I'd like to make you a proposition.

  Steve Singleton : It'll be crooked, but I'm listening.

• Gerald 'Jumbo' Johnson : Your partners?

  Steve Singleton : Sure. Two of the scummiest waterfront rats that ever put a knife in a man's back You'd like 'em, Jumbo. They're just your type.