Edmond O'Brien: Johnny Midnight

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Aki : [Johnny in a tuxedo, humming "Lullaby of Broadway"]  Cool, dad! You come on like a high-class undertaker!

  Johnny Midnight : Don't knock it, Aki. Tonight's a special situation.

  Aki : I know it, daddy-o, and is she a gasser!

• Johnny Midnight : Aki!

  Aki : This may hit you like a shock, dad, but it's two a.m.

  Johnny Midnight : I don't hire you for your dialogue, beatnik. Black and hot.

  Aki : Ah, yes, coffee in one half-second!

• Delta : Johnny, level with me.

  Johnny Midnight : They won't hurt Dan. They'll send him back in good condition.

  Delta : Don't talk about my husband as if he were a railway express package!

• Delta : I fought my way up out of sewers like this one. Johnny's a gentleman, but I don't play by the rules.

  [grabs and twists Sugar's hair] 

  Delta : Where's my husband? Where's the money? Where's Dan?

  Sugar Kane : Don't! Please!

  Johnny Midnight : Then you better sing, Sugar, and sing fast!

• Johnny Midnight : Ohh, what did that gorilla hit me with anyway, the Empire State Building?

• Johnny Midnight : [Narration]  I called in a message for Lt. Carucci, then we headed to Astoria. They say the Queensboro Bridge is beautiful... and they're right. But Astoria is something else again. New York's the big town, and Astoria is a country cousin, full of holes and lost places. Jack's Gym was one of the lost places, a second-rate shrine for would-be Tarzans.

• Johnny Midnight : Mr. Delta Manning.

  Dan Walker : Don't call me that!

  Johnny Midnight : That hurts, doesn't it? Because you wanted out. But you wanted a nice, juicy fifty grand going-away present.

• [last lines] 

  Johnny Midnight : [Narration]  Trouble is, I'm a coward. Any man who got involved with Delta Manning needed a bomb shelter, and I just didn't qualify. But it was another day, and who knows what the city had waiting for me.