The Dark Corner (1946)
Mark Stevens: Bradford Galt
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Quotes
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Kathleen : You should have William Powell for a secretary.
Bradford Galt : William Powell... who's he?
Kathleen : Don't ya ever go to the movies? He's a detective, in "The Thin Man."
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Bradford Galt : There goes my last lead. I feel all dead inside. I'm backed up in a dark corner, and I don't know who's hitting me.
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Bradford Galt : I'll be at the Cathcart galleries absorbing culture. I don't want to die ignorant.
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Kathleen Stewart : I've never been followed before.
Bradford Galt : That's a terrible reflection on American manhood.
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Bradford Galt : You know, I think I'll fire you and get me a Tahitian secretary.
Kathleen Stewart : You won't like them; those grass skirts are a fire hazard.
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Bradford Galt : I can be framed easier than "Whistler's Mother".
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Bradford Galt : [replying to Anthony Jardine] You, on the level. Why, for six bits you'd hang your mother on a meathook.
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Bradford Galt : I'm clean as a peeled egg. No debts, no angry husbands, no payoffs... nothin'.
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Bradford Galt : One thing led to another, and he led with his right.
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Miss Dennis, Saleswoman : This is one of Donatello's finest pieces.
Bradford Galt : How much is it?
Miss Dennis, Saleswoman : $40,000.
Bradford Galt : Wrap it up.
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Kathleen : My father was a major-league umpire. Well, what else
[at the Tudor Penny Arcade]
Kathleen : can I beat you at?
Bradford Galt : What other kinds of games do you like to play? You know, we've got some great playgrounds up around 52nd Street.
Kathleen : Among them your apartment?
Bradford Galt : Why, just a coincidence.
Kathleen : I haven't worked for you very long, Mr. Galt, but I know when you're pitching a curve at me, and I always carry a catcher's mitt.
Bradford Galt : No offense. A guy's got to score, doesn't he?
Kathleen : Not in my league. I don't play for score, I play for keeps - "said she with a smile."
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Bradford Galt : Why don't you come over here, where you belong?
[Bradford pats the couch that he is laying on]
Kathleen : [Kathleen throws Bradford his mended suit jacket and proceeds to walk out Bradford's front door] Well, if you're feeling that much better, perhaps I better go home.
[scene fades]
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Kathleen : But remember, I can get brand new tough guys for a dime a dozen.
Bradford Galt : Here, get yourself two dozen.
[Bradford tosses two dimes at Kathleen across the table]
Kathleen : [Kathleen pushes them back towards Bradford] I'd rather pick you up at a rummage sale. I'm a sucker for bargains. Speaking of bargains, if you can't get nines in those nylons, I'll take eight-and-a-half or even ten. Doesn't matter.
Bradford Galt : I'll make a note of it.
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Bradford Galt : The stain... The ink, baby, the ink. I smeared ink on his white suit up in my office.
Kathleen Stewart : What of it?
Bradford Galt : He'd have to have the suit cleaned, wouldn't he? The cleaners would have his address, wouldn't they?
Kathleen Stewart : Well, this is a pretty dirty town. Cleaning places grow on every street like mushrooms.
Bradford Galt : Yeah, but they don't do their own cleaning.