- Miles Ravenscourt: Someone who is quite determined to be most unpleasant about it has a cheque of mine for a thousand which is probably bouncing at this very moment. So if you are determined not to share the money, in a few days from now, you'll be sharing some very lurid headlines.
- Sir Francis Ravenscourt: You can't threaten me any more. Public disgrace couldn't be worse than sitting here being reminded that I'm your father.
- Miles Ravenscourt: You really do hate me, don't you?
- Sir Francis Ravenscourt: I don't hate you. I Ioathe and despise the very sight of you.
- Mike Morgan: What did I do it for? Money. The money we were saving together, the money I was going to buy that shop with. And look what I got for my trouble - stone deaf in one ear, half blind and only one hand. What sort of a man does that make me?
- Mike Morgan: [about his boxing match] Do me a favor, don't watch tonight.
- Angela Morgan: I never do watch. I just shut my eyes and pray you don't get hurt too much.
- Denise Lynn: Todd has become the biggest thing in pictures and he's asked little me to be with him in his next picture.
- Eddie Blaine: How exciting. I saw your last picture by the way. Who was the guy you said your line to?
- Denise Lynn: I'm afraid Eddie that your life in the Air Force has coarsened your mind.
- [first lines]
- [four men are seen inside a moving car]
- Narrator: [voice over] Four men. Four men, each from a different walk of life: a clerk, an airman, a prize fighter, and a gentleman of leisure. A few weeks ago, they were strangers. Now, here they are driving together to... what?