Memorable quotes for
The Big Heat (1953)

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Tierney: They come and go like flies.
Dave Bannion: Only this fly got herself strangled.
Tierney: These things, happen, Sergeant.

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Vince Stone: Hey, that's nice perfume.
Debby Marsh: Something new. It attracts mosquitoes and repels men.

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[Debby surveys Bannion's undistinguished hotel room]
Debby Marsh: Hey, I like this. Early nothing!

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Debby Marsh: The main thing is to have the money. I've been rich and I've been poor. *Believe* me, rich is better.

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Debby Marsh: We're sisters under the mink.

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Lt. Ted Wilks: It was bad judgment to bother a cop's widow about the love life of her husband.
Dave Bannion: Good or bad, it was my judgment.
Lt. Ted Wilks: You're missing the point. I'm the one that gets the pressure calls from upstairs. I'm the one that has to explain. You don't keep an office like this very long stepping on a lot of corns.
Dave Bannion: You want me to go upstairs and explain?
Lt. Ted Wilks: Not you. You're a corn stepper by instinct.

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Debby Marsh: Well, you're about as romantic as a pair of handcuffs.

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