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- What would he be doing in church?
- Robbing the poor box or copping a plea.

5 seconds sound clip from the The Enforcer (1951) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:28:52.183 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I'll give you a 6-2 and even the body's name is Smiley Schultz.

- Hey, Tailor. You know a friend of Smiley Schultz's, a fellow they call Big Babe?

- Don't bother me. Who knows Big Babe?

- I know him, mister. He lives around the corner. I just saw him.

- Where?

- He jumped into his car and yelled at his wife he was on his way to st. Anne's Church.

- Thanks.

- This is Martin Ferguson. Dispatch a car to st. Anne's Church. Pick up Babe Lazich, wanted for murder. Hold.

- What would he be doing in church?

- Robbing the poor box or copping a plea.

- Always worries me when these hoodlums get religion.

- Don't take me out here! Let me stay inside! They won't do nothing to me in a church! Leave me alone, put me down! They'll burn me, too!

- All right, let 'em through, there. Let 'em in there. All right, go on home.

- Ahem.

- Yeah, what do you want?

- Is that fat hooligan called Big Babe?

- Yes, sir, Big Babe Lazich. He lives in the neighborhood.

[...]

The Enforcer (1951) Sound Clip

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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