Mr. Ricco (1975)

Eugene Roche: George Cronyn

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• Joe Ricco : It's a long jump, George.

  George Cronyn : Yeah, and it gets more tempting every year!

• Joe Ricco : You look worse than usual.

  George Cronyn : I slept in the car last night. Mary threw me out of the house.

• Joe Ricco : I envy you. You've got such a clear cut view of the law, it's not complicated with minor details like the Bill of Rights or due process.

  George Cronyn : I don't live in a courtroom where everything's always regulated and neat. Sometimes I come home with blood on my shirt instead of ink!

• Mrs. Callahan : The man from the mayor's office called about the murders. Nothing, huh?

  George Cronyn : We're up the creek without a paddle.

  Mrs. Callahan : Ah, you been there before, Captain.

  George Cronyn : Yeah, but that doesn't make it smell any better. Mrs. Callahan, where's my cup?

  Mrs. Callahan : Somebody stole it.

• George Cronyn : All you have to do is stall. In the meantime, I'll be laying on the old charm with a shovel. She'll come around. You'll see.

  Joe Ricco : Well, from what I've seen, you'd get a hernia from working up a teaspoon full of charm.

  George Cronyn : That's Cronyn the cop. You've never been exposed to Cronyn the lover.

  Joe Ricco : Spare me.

• George Cronyn : I don't need you to tell me my job, I've been doing it for 20 years. 20 years of being shot at and beat up on by sick, filthy creeps whose own mothers would've flushed 'em down the toilet if they'd a known how they were gonna turn out. And in all those years, not once did John Q. Citizen or any slick mob beast offer to pull my tail out of a jam. It was always another cop laying his life on the line to save me!

  Joe Ricco : Maybe it's about time you quit or have you forgotten that a cop is not the law, he just enforces it.

• Joe Ricco : Why would Frankie Steele try to kill me?

  George Cronyn : Well, to know you is to love you.

• Joe Ricco : I still don't believe that Steele's the man we want?

  George Cronyn : You don't? Well, after he shoves a shotgun up your ass and a split second before he pulls the trigger, give me a call on the phone and tell me that your positive. I'll move in and make the arrest, okay? Is that how you want me to handle it?