The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Anthony Caruso: Louis Ciavelli

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• Gus Minissi : Why don't you wise up, you wise guy?

  Louis Ciavelli : You're a low-down scum. That's what you are. A low-down, dirty scum, to talk to me like that!

• Louis Ciavelli : Frankly, I don't like the guy, but I never saw a hooligan I did like. They're like left-handed pitchers. They all have a screw loose somewhere.

• Louis Ciavelli : What are you sweatin' for?

  Cobby : Money makes me sweat, that's all. It's the way I am.

• Louis Ciavelli : There's only one driver, as far as I'm concerned. Gus Minissi. Ask Cobby, he knows him.

  Cobby : Gus, 100 percent.

  Doc Riedenschneider : Get hold of him.

  Cobby : He'll take the heat and won't flap his lip.

  Doc Riedenschneider : Get hold of him.

• Louis Ciavelli : That busted-down wrestler, are you kidding? He's got nothing upstairs but solid knuckle.

• Louis Ciavelli : If you want fresh air, don't look for it in this town!