Inspector Hornleigh (1939)

Alastair Sim: Sergeant Bingham

Quotes 

• Sam Holt aka Keyhole Charlie : Thick or thin, there's nothing I don't know about textiles. I can clothe you from the cradle to the grave, sir.

  Sergeant Bingham : Oh, could you? Well you're a bit late for the first and a bit premature for the second.

• Sergeant Bingham : Well, he says he's a traveling representative of the textile industry; and in my opinion, he's pretty strong in fabrications.

• Sergeant Bingham : I wonder what he was?

  Inspector Hornleigh : Hotel porter

  Sergeant Bingham : Ah, hotel porter? I thought that

  [pause] 

  Sergeant Bingham : How do you know?

  Inspector Hornleigh : This piece of chalk. It's got blacking on it. He used it to chalk the room numbers on the boots he cleaned. See?

  Sergeant Bingham : Oh, marvelous! All life's problems solved.

  Inspector Hornleigh : Well, I have been wrong...

  Sergeant Bingham : Last week's football pools for instance?

  Inspector Hornleigh : That! Why the whole of Scotland Yard couldn't deduce what Chelsea will do next!

• Inspector Hornleigh : Ever hear of telepathy, sergeant?

  Sergeant Bingham : Telepathy? It's-a-it's what we in Scotland call the 'second sight.' Ah-ha-lots of us possess the gift.

  Inspector Hornleigh : Nearly all savage races have it.