Lots of good stuff in this movie, but here's my two favorites.
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!!!deleted!!! (5308671) — 10 years ago(May 01, 2015 01:55 PM)
Lots of good stuff in this movie, but here's my two favorites.
[when Sid Hudgens is found dead]
Bud White: What happened?
Detective at Hush-Hush Office: Somebody beat him to death and stole a bunch of files. Must've dug up garbage on the wrong guy. Got it narrowed down to a thousand suspects.
With Exley & White at the Victory Motel in a position tantamount to the end of Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.
Ed Exley: All I ever wanted was to measure up to my father.
Bud White: Now's your chance.
Bud White: [after Exley gives him a puzzled look] He died in the line of duty, didn't he?
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wak127-108-364206 — 10 years ago(July 30, 2015 05:57 PM)
Good one. And it was said the Crowe way.
" Well, just dont shoot me" The actors were so good they made even lines like this one great.
" Shotgun Ed "
" dope fiends"
A very entertaining movie. They were smart enough to add in bits of humor here and there . -
BrokenBells — 10 years ago(October 03, 2015 02:41 PM)
Yeah, every other line is memorable, but these are two of my faves:
White: "The Nite Owl case made you. Do you want to tear all that down?"
Exley: "With a wrecking ball.. You want to help me swing it?"
Captain Smith: "Go back to Jersey, sonny. This is the City of the Angels, and you haven't got any wings." -
jurado-78605 — 10 years ago(November 26, 2015 05:24 PM)
Dudley: It's best not to mess with a man when his blood's up.
Exley: His blood is always up.
Bud White and Exley burst into the D.A.'s office
Secretary: Should I call the police?
D.A.: These are the police. -
aka-tus — 10 years ago(March 01, 2016 06:04 AM)
do you have any proof?
the proof had his throat slit.
is that how you used to run the good-cop/bad-cop?
maybe that's why he's under a house in Elysian Park and he doesn't smell too good.
will someone tell that mime to shut up? -
leathanl — 9 years ago(July 31, 2016 08:07 PM)
D.A.: "Dudley Smith is a highly decorated member of this police department. I'm not going to smear his and Peirce Patchet's name without"
Exley: "Without what? Them smearing yours first? What do they have on you Lowe? Pictures of you and Matt Reynolds with your pants down?" -
mark-1589 — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 02:30 PM)
Ellis Loew: Come on, don't try this "Good Cop-Bad Cop" crap on me. I practically invented it. So what if some homo actor is dead? Boys, girls, ten of them step off the bus to L.A. every day.
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Bud White: Now, I know you think you're the A-number one hotshot. Well, here's the juice: if I take you out, there'll be ten more lawyers to take your place tomorrow. They just won't come on the bus, that's all!
[White drags Loew into his office and dangles him out of the window by his legs until he confesses]
Ed Exley: Was that how you used to run the "Good Cop-Bad Cop?"