Pickup on South Street (1953)
Richard Widmark: Skip McCoy
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Quotes
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Moe Williams : What's the matter with you? Playing footsie with the Commies!
Skip McCoy : You waving the flag, too?
Moe Williams : Listen, I knew you since you was a little kid. You was always a regular kind of crook. I never figured you for a louse.
Skip McCoy : Stop, you're breaking my heart.
Moe Williams : Even in our crummy line of business you gotta draw the line somewhere.
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Skip McCoy : [after first kiss with Candy] Sometimes you look for oil, you hit a gusher.
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Skip McCoy : I know you pinched me three times and got me convicted three times and made me a three-time loser. And I know you took an oath to put me away for life. Well, you're trying awful hard with all this patriotic eye-wash, but get this: I didn't grift that film and you can't prove I did! And if I said I did, you'd slap that fourth rap across my teeth no matter what promises you made!
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Skip McCoy : So you're a Red, who cares? Your money's as good as anybody else's.
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Skip McCoy : You boys are talking to the wrong corner. I'm just a guy keeping my hands in my own pockets.
FBI Agent Zara : If you refuse to cooperate you'll be as guilty as the traitors who gave Stalin the A-bomb.
Skip McCoy : Are you waving the flag at *me*?
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Skip McCoy : Pack up the pitch with the charge or drive me back to my shack.
Capt. Dan Tiger : I'll drive you back in a hearse if you don't get the kink out of your mouth!
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Skip McCoy : [to Capt. Tiger] You're sittin' on a hot rock. I'd like to see you jump!
