黑狱枭雄 (1965)

Lt. Robin Grey:

Why do you think it is, Corporal, that you have so much and the rest of us so little? One day, Corporal, you're going to make a slip. All this wealth you've got isn't going to check against my list. And when you do; when that happens... I'll be ready. And you'll be in there...

[points to the bamboo cage]

Lt. Robin Grey:

in my cage. I'm not playing at being provost marshall, you know. And I've never yet heard of a run of luck that didn't run out. And yours will - depend on it - because you're like all criminals: you're greedy.

Cpl. King:

Lieutenant, I'd like to point out to you that I don't have to put up with this crap from you. I'm not in your two-bit army, I'm in our two-bit army. If you're looking for something to live for, when we get out of this you come looking for me and I'll hand you your head.

Cpl. King:

How's that chair feel?

Peter Marlowe:

Fine.

Cpl. King:

Cost me eighty bucks.

Peter Marlowe:

Did it? Yes, well I'd never have guessed.

Cpl. King:

You'da said more, huh?

Peter Marlowe:

No, I don't think so. I don't think I'd have said anything really. I've never been a great 'chair price guesser'.

[King asks Marlowe to say something in Malay]

Peter Marlowe:

What sort of thing?

Cpl. King:

I don't care. Anything, I just wanna hear you.

[Marlowe says a sentence in Malay]

Cpl. King:

Hey, that's pretty good. You hear that, Max?

[to Marlowe]

Cpl. King:

What's that mean?

Peter Marlowe:

Well, it doesn't really have a literal translation. But, uh, roughly speaking, it means, "When do I have to kiss the - -- on the ass?"

[all the other prisoners in the barracks turn and look]

Cpl. King:

After the egg. Never before meals.

[Lt. Grey has come into King's hut while Marlowe is there]

Lt. Robin Grey:

You're slumming aren't you, Marlowe?

Peter Marlowe:

Don't be a snob, old man. Never make a good policeman if you're a snob. Everyone looks the same with their knickers down.

[Dr. Kennedy and Stevens are bandaging Marlowe's wound]

Stevens:

What's the matter with you, Stevens?

Stevens:

Oh, nothing.

Dr. Kennedy:

You're a liar, Stevens. You shave your legs and you're a liar. But you care. You care; that's what saves you.

Stevens:

Saves me from what, sir?

Dr. Kennedy:

Yourself, Stevens, yourself.

Stevens:

I thought you were gonna say from a fate worse than death, sir.

Dr. Kennedy:

There's no such thing.

Cpl. King:

[to Marlowe]

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You know, before this, everybody had it made but me. The closest I ever got was to read it out of magazines. I used to watch those real fancy dolls getting out of the big cars going to eat the big dinner. And they're always with pigs. You know, real pigs. Fat old guys; but they had it made.

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[last lines]

Peter Marlowe:

[speaking about King] It wouldn't have occurred to you would it, Grey, that you're only alive because of what he gave you?

Lt. Robin Grey:

What are you talking about? I never took anything from him. He never gave me anything.

Peter Marlowe:

Only hate, Grey. Only hate.