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Film Quotes by Alan Ladd

50 quotes
This Gun for Hire
Year: 1942

Director:
Frank Tuttle
Willard Gates: Raven... how do you feel when you're doing...
[indicates murder headlines]
Willard Gates: this?
Philip Raven: I feel fine.
-- Alan Ladd (as Philip Raven) in This Gun for Hire (1942)
The Badlanders
Year: 1958

Director:
Delmer Daves
The Marshal: Oh, that suite is taken. So is every room in the hotel. And every other hotel in town. You might try the stable across the bridge.
Peter Van Hoek: I like horses, Marshal, but not as roommates.
-- Alan Ladd (as Peter Van Hoek) in The Badlanders (1958)
One Foot in Hell
Year: 1960

Director:
James B. Clark
Dan: How are you going to live now? How are you going to live without anybody to hate?
Mitch: I got a hundred thousand dollars. I don't need anybody.
One Foot in Hell
Year: 1960

Director:
James B. Clark
Dan: You know somethin'? The way you plan things, sorta slow and careful - you must want that money real bad.
Mitch: Not as much as I once wanted a dollar and eighty-seven cents.
This Gun for Hire
Year: 1942

Director:
Frank Tuttle
Ellen Graham: Why don't you go to the police?
Philip Raven: I'm my own police.
-- Alan Ladd (as Philip Raven) in This Gun for Hire (1942)
The Blue Dahlia
Year: 1946

Director:
George Marshall
Joyce Harwood: Well, don't you even say 'Good night'?
Johnny Morrison: It's good-bye, and it's tough to say good-bye.
Joyce Harwood: Why is it? You've never seen me before tonight.
Johnny Morrison: Every guy's seen you before somewhere. The trick is to find you.
-- Alan Ladd (as Johnny Morrison) in The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Two Years Before the Mast
Year: 1946

Director:
John Farrow
Captain Francis A. Thompson: Mr. Foster, remove his shirt.
2nd Mate Foster: Aye, aye, sir.
Charles Stewart: Never mind. I'll take it off.
-- Alan Ladd (as Charles Stewart) in Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
The Blue Dahlia
Year: 1946

Director:
George Marshall
Eddie Harwood: Half the cops in L.A. are looking for you.
Johnny Morrison: Only half?
-- Alan Ladd (as Johnny Morrison) in The Blue Dahlia (1946)
The Blue Dahlia
Year: 1946

Director:
George Marshall
Man recommending a motel: [walking into the cheap motel] Clean sheets every day they tell me.
Johnny Morrison: How often do they change the fleas?
-- Alan Ladd (as Johnny Morrison) in The Blue Dahlia (1946)
The Big Land
Year: 1957

Director:
Gordon Douglas
Joe Jagger: Well, you know my problem. What's yours?
Chad Morgan: I should have killed a man the other day.
Joe Jagger: Killed a man? What for?
Chad Morgan: He needed it.