- [last lines]
- Reporter: What do you know, the ace. A royal flush.
- Arnold Rothstein: It's the royal flush I want. Just one time before I die. A royal flush in a no limit game.
- Arnold Rothstein: The royal flush is the best hand you can hold in poker. It's the 10, the jack, the queen, the king and the ace of any one suit. Now a hand like that comes along once in a lifetime. The odds are 649,740 to 1.
- Tom Fowler: [inquiringly, after listening to a shady proposal] Sometimes justice is more important than ethics?
- Arnold Rothstein: That's the way I feel about it.
- [first lines]
- receptionist: [answers the telephone] International Tobacco. Yes. Just a moment, please.
- Arnold Rothstein: [Rothstein hands a card to the receptionist] I'd like to see Mr. Simmons, please.
- receptionist: Oh yes, you're expected. Go right in.