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The Cheaper The Crook, The Gaudier The Patter
Steven den Beste sees a pattern.
[Update at 2:30 PM PDT]
By the way, extra points to anyone who gets the reference in the post title...
Posted by Rand Simberg at June 05, 2003 09:01 AM
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Maltese Falcon.
Poor Wilbur...
Posted by Toren at June 5, 2003 04:40 PM
I think Elisha Cook Jr.'s character was Wilmer not Wilbur
Posted by Roelof at June 6, 2003 04:54 AM
...and the line that preceeded it..
"Keep on riding me. They'll be picking iron out of your liver..."
.But Bogie had the best line... In the hotel corridor outside Gutman's hotel room suite, Spade moves behind Wilmer
and uses the gunsel's own coat to pin his arms and then take his guns away. He tells a
disgruntled Wilmer: "Come on. This will put you in solid with your boss." In front of
Gutman, he embarrasses and humiliates the bungling Wilmer by handing the weapons
over to the gunman's boss, explaining: "Here. You shouldn't let him go around with
these. I know he might get himself hurt...A crippled newsie took 'em away from him, but
I made him give them back!"
Posted by at June 9, 2003 02:27 PM
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