Dark Alibi (1946)

Sidney Toler: Charlie Chan

Photos 

Quotes 

• Charlie Chan : [to Morgan]  Government work keep me hopping like dissatisfied flea from dog to dog.

• Anthony R. Morgan : Charlie, what can one man do against the entire legal force of the state?

  Charlie Chan : Ancient proverb say, "One small wind can raise much dust."

• Charlie Chan : Please continue.

  Mrs. Foss : That's all I have to say.

  Charlie Chan : That's what woman always say, yet go right on talking.

• Birmingham Brown : [Driving]  Mr. Chan, is this the shortest way to prison?

  Charlie Chan : No, shortest way is commit crime.

• Charlie Chan : [to Birmingham and Tommy]  Always sitting! Wish you would wear out brains instead of seat of pants.

  Tommy Chan : Pop, we have been thinking...

  Charlie Chan : Most impossible.

  Birmingham Brown : Oh, yes sir, Mr. Chan. We've been thinkin'.

  Charlie Chan : And now you have a headache.

• Charlie Chan : [Encouraging June]  Remember old saying: "Earthquake may shatter rock, but sand upon which rock stood still right there in same old place."

• Charlie Chan : Skeletons in closets always speak loudest to police.

• Charlie Chan : You two not afraid?

  Tommy Chan : Afraid of what, Pop?

  Charlie Chan : That you sit down so often you get concussion of brain.

  Tommy Chan : Pop, I got a swell idea!

  Charlie Chan : Good. Save it for old age.

• Charlie Chan : I will sit in car while you two enjoy nervous breakdown.

• Mrs. Foss : Being a detective is an ugly trade.

  Charlie Chan : Ugliest trade sometimes have moment of joy. Even gravedigger know some people for whom he would do his work with extreme pleasure.

• Emily Evans : Listen, are you trying to pin something on me?

  Charlie Chan : [holding her skimpy dance costume]  No, merely at moment trying to figure how you pin upon yourself such very few feathers.

• Charlie Chan : Son Tommy is noisy woodpecker on family tree.