The Enforcer (1951) Quotes with Sound Clips

The Enforcer (1951)  posterListen to memorable quotes from the classic 1951 film noir "The Enforcer" (aka "Murder, Inc." in the UK).

Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Dist. Atty. Martin Ferguson), Zero Mostel (Big Babe Lazick), Ted de Corsia (Joseph Rico), Everett Sloane (Albert Mendoza)

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1 If you're smart, you can be a hero. If you're dumb, you can be dead.

— Joseph Rico (Ted De Corsia)

2 Who calls him on the phone? -If you're a good swimmer, you can ask the guy who found out. He's at the bottom of the river.

— Big Babe Lazick (Zero Mostel)

3 Yeah. 9:00. And listen... No guns, no cops, no tricks.

— Joseph Rico (Ted De Corsia)

4 A blimp like you ain't got a girlfriend, have you?

— Joseph Rico (Ted De Corsia)

5 Don't ever say that. A murder's a contract. The hit is the sucker that gets killed. Remember those words and use them. Then, even if the cops tap a phone, they don't know what you're talking about. Got that? -Yes, sir.

— Joseph Rico (Ted De Corsia)

6 I've given it a lot of thought. The business I got needs no investment. You can carry it around in your hat. All you need is a telephone.

— Albert Mendoza (Everett Sloane)

7 Today, I went into the most dangerous business in the world. -What's that? -The murder business. But I'm taking the danger out of it.

— Albert Mendoza (Everett Sloane)

8 You think you can shut people up by killing them, but you're wrong. Even the dead can talk.

— Dist. Atty. Martin Ferguson (Humphrey Bogart)

9 How can that be? What's wrong with the law that we can't touch him? Oh... I know. Our kind of laws are designed to protect the innocent. It's not enough that we know a man is guilty. We have to prove it.
10 I've got a few souvenirs for you, pictures of some people you killed. Little memories you can hang on to.

— Dist. Atty. Martin Ferguson (Humphrey Bogart)

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