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Quotes from Background to Danger (1943)

13 quotes
George Raft
'Mac' McNamara: [Last lines Asking about Joe and Tamara] What are you going to do in Moscow?
Joe Barton: We're gonna cement Russian-American relations.

George Raft
'Mac' McNamara: Where are you headed for now?
Joe Barton: A wild ride on a Turkish merry-go-round.

George Raft
Joe Barton: [Dryly to Robinson] You still talk as much as ever.

George Raft
Joe Barton: There's a couple of numbers that won't do you any good. They're in Brooklyn.

George Raft
Joe Barton: When you flop in your country you end up in a coffin.

Peter Lorre
Nikolai Zaleshoff: [Petulantly] I want some vodka! I WANT SOME VODKA!

Peter Lorre
Nikolai Zaleshoff: [to Joe] You're a marked man. You're wanted for murder.

Peter Lorre
Nikolai Zaleshoff: How did you know the gun wasn't loaded?
Joe Barton: By its weight.
Nikolai Zaleshoff: There might have been one bullet in it.
Joe Barton: That's the chance I had to take.
Nikolai Zaleshoff: YOU had to take?

Peter Lorre
Nikolai Zaleshoff: Oh, you Americans, always in a hurry, hurry, business, business!

George Raft
Mailler: [Pointing a gun] Keep moving. Understand?
Joe Barton: [Reacting to the gun] That's on language I do understand.