The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)

Melvyn Douglas: Police Lieutenant Kenny Williams

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• Lieutenant Kenny Williams : It was a plain case of murder.

  Police Lieutenant Bixler : Murder?

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : Do you remember those snakes?

  Police Lieutenant Bixler : Do I!

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : Well, women don't usually keep snakes for pets. Isn't that right?

  Rinaldo : That's right.

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : And they don't usually run around with midgets. Isn't that right?

  Rinaldo : That's right.

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : So, I immediately thought of a circus. Isn't that right?

  Rinaldo : That's right.

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : Circuses employ strange people with unusual talents. Isn't that right?

  Rinaldo : You said it!

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : So, I saw the possibility of a murder. Isn't that right?

  Rinaldo : That's right.

  Police Lieutenant Bixler : Say, who is this guy? Charlie McCarthy?

• Lieutenant Kenny Williams : At least we had some chicken soup together. They'll never be able to take that away from us!

• Lieutenant Kenny Williams : And what gave you boys the idea it was suicide?

  Police Lieutenant Bixler : The doors were all locked from the inside. We had to break in! The fingerprints on the knife are the same as on the corpus corpus delicti. In fact, she was holding the handle just like this - when Richard Morris set in.

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : Your Latin stinks.

• Police Lieutenant Bixler : The woman was lying, sprawled out on a rug near the fireplace.

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : "The woman was lying, sprawled out on a rug" - what are you doing Victor, writing your memoirs?

• Lieutenant Kenny Williams : [On the phone]  Hello, Maxine. Hello, honey.

  Maxine Carroll : What's the idea of letting me sit alone in a restaurant. I had to pay my own check! What kind of a guy are you, anyway?

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : Oh, listen, honey, don't get mad, you get wrinkles.

• Police Captain McGovern : Wait a minute. You wouldn't happen to have any ideas on how to catch the Phantom Slugger would you?

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : Why sure. Dress this monkey up in women's clothes and send him out in the street as a decoy.

  Detective Deever : What?

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : Well, you can do it, Deever, you're the prettiest cop in the force. Look at that waistline Chief. Nice and slender. And those beautiful big, brown eyes. Just pour a pint of perfume over him and you'd be prefect.

  Detective Deever : Cut out those rattle-brain ideas of yours, this is the Police Department not the Follies.

• Lieutenant Kenny Williams : Listen, either you do this for me or I'll have the Warden take away your Sunday baseball.

• Maxine Carroll : Where do we intend to go for dinner?

  Lieutenant Kenny Williams : Oh, I thought we'd go around to Tony's.

  Buck Moseby : [Pretending to be Charlie Jones]  Oh, not on a night like this! Why don't we go out in the open where they got trees and bushes.

  Effie Perkins : Oh, now, Mr. Jones, no bushes.

• Lieutenant Kenny Williams : I don't particularly like making a jackass out of myself. But, its for a good cause.

• Lieutenant Kenny Williams : I'd walk down on Main Street in a Turkish towel before I'd let any woman control my life.

• Lieutenant Kenny Williams : Listen, you saw this dame.

  Maxine Carroll : Well, just a peek.

• Maxine Carroll : The world is full of nice, normal men, and I become engaged to a crazy cop.

  Police Lieutenant Kenny Williams : Darling, I wish you wouldn't keep referring to me as a cop. I'm a grade-A detective - homicide squad. It's a vastly different thing.

• Cab Driver : Hey, lady. Do you know that guy you slugged is a detective?

  Police Lieutenant Kenny Williams : [dressed as a woman]  So what?

  Cab Driver : Oh, nothin', nothin', I just thought I'd mention it.