The Jade Mask (1945)

Al Bridge: Sheriff Mack

Quotes 

• Charlie Chan : No barber shaves so close but another barber finds some work to do.

  Sheriff Mack : Reckon what he says is what you might call a cutting remark.

• Roth : If anyone knew where the formula was kept, I would, but I know nothing about it at all.

  Charlie Chan : [to Sheriff Mack]  To get information from him is like putting empty bucket into empty well.

  Sheriff Mack : Yeah, he is kind of dried up.

• Sheriff Mack : As my grandpa used to say: it's wonderful what doctors know. It's what they don't know that kill you.

• Sheriff Mack : [to suspects]  When it comes to talkin', you people just don't enter into the spirit of the thing!

• Sheriff Mack : This is way beyond me. Seems to me when folks asked me to run for sheriff, I missed a fine chance to keep quiet.

• [last lines] 

  [Sheriff Mack is on road driving when Birmingham runs up to him] 

  Birmingham Brown : Pardon me, Sheriff, but is this the road back to the city?

  Sheriff Mack : Yep. It's about three miles straight down that road.

  [notices Birmingham running alongside him] 

  Sheriff Mack : Hey, I didn't know my car had stopped.

  Birmingham Brown : You didn't. I just slowed down. Goodbye!

  [runs off, overtaking the car]