It's all right, Paine. He's only a scribbler with too much drink in him.
— Major Calloway (Trevor Howard)
4 seconds sound clip from the The Third Man (1949) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:09:17.999 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Pin it on a dead man. Some petty racket with gasoline or something.
- Just like a cop. You're a real cop, I suppose.
- So it wasn't petrol. So it was tyres or saccharin or...
- Why don't you catch a few murderers for a change?
- Well, you could say that murder was part of his racket.
- It's all right, Paine. He's only a scribbler with too much drink in him.
- Holly Martins, sir? The... the writer? The author of Death at Double-X Ranch?
- Calloway. I'm English, not Irish.
- You're not going to close your files at a dead man's expense.
- So you're going to find me the real criminal? Sounds like one of your stories.
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