Film Quotes by Walter Abel
9 quotes
Year: 1942
Director:
Mark Sandrich
Director:
Mark Sandrich
Linda Mason:
What would you like?
Danny Reed: Orchids, the finest you've got.
Linda Mason: Corsage?
Danny Reed: No, no. A dozen, loose, looking like they don't care!
Danny Reed: Orchids, the finest you've got.
Linda Mason: Corsage?
Danny Reed: No, no. A dozen, loose, looking like they don't care!
--
Walter Abel
(as Danny Reed)
in
Holiday Inn
(1942)
Year: 1947
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Charles Gibson:
22 potential agents. Most of them have a foreign background. All of them can speak French. One of them can speak German.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: Mmmm-hmmm.
Charles Gibson: You got to find out who that is.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: All right.
Charles Gibson: That's not as easy as it sounds.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: Why?
Charles Gibson: Because one of the students in the group is a German agent.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: A German agent? Looks like you know.
Charles Gibson: Yeah.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: Man or woman?
Charles Gibson: When you find out, you tell me.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: Mmmm-hmmm.
Charles Gibson: You got to find out who that is.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: All right.
Charles Gibson: That's not as easy as it sounds.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: Why?
Charles Gibson: Because one of the students in the group is a German agent.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: A German agent? Looks like you know.
Charles Gibson: Yeah.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: Man or woman?
Charles Gibson: When you find out, you tell me.
--
Walter Abel
(as Charles Gibson)
in
13 Rue Madeleine
(1947)
Year: 1942
Director:
Mark Sandrich
Director:
Mark Sandrich
Danny Reed:
How'd he get that far in five minutes?
Ted Hanover: The lady must have been willing.
Danny Reed: The world can't do this to us!
Ted Hanover: The lady must have been willing.
Danny Reed: The world can't do this to us!
--
Walter Abel
(as Danny Reed)
in
Holiday Inn
(1942)
Year: 1942
Director:
Mark Sandrich
Director:
Mark Sandrich
Danny Reed:
If I'm not the best manager in the business, I'll eat a garage mechanic's shirt!
--
Walter Abel
(as Danny Reed)
in
Holiday Inn
(1942)
Year: 1936
Director:
Fritz Lang
Director:
Fritz Lang
District Attorney:
[after several witnesses had lied on the stand] I wonder if I haven't been calling the defense witnesses by mistake.
--
Walter Abel
(as District Attorney)
in
Fury
(1936)
Year: 1945
Director:
Richard Wallace
Director:
Richard Wallace
Harry Archer:
Somehow, I just can't believe that I'm the father-in-law of that "Holy cow"!
--
Walter Abel
(as Harry Archer)
in
Kiss and Tell
(1945)
Year: 1941
Director:
Mitchell Leisen
Director:
Mitchell Leisen
Inspector Hammock:
I'll be the doggonedest dog to end all doggoned dogs! Maybe I'm just dumb.
--
Walter Abel
(as Inspector Hammock)
in
Hold Back the Dawn
(1941)
Year: 1957
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
T.D. Shawnessy:
War is the most monstrous of man's illusions. Any idea worth anything is worth not fighting for.
--
Walter Abel
(as T.D. Shawnessy)
in
Raintree County
(1957)
Year: 1957
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
John Wickliff Shawnessy:
[People are gathering in the town center] What's going on here?
Ellen Shawnessy: You haven't heard? They've attacked Fort Sumter. It means war sure as anything.
T.D. Shawnessy: I'm not so sure. Now, say what you will, Americans will never fight each other. We'll settle our difficulties peacefully.
Ellen Shawnessy: You haven't heard? They've attacked Fort Sumter. It means war sure as anything.
T.D. Shawnessy: I'm not so sure. Now, say what you will, Americans will never fight each other. We'll settle our difficulties peacefully.
--
Walter Abel
(as T.D. Shawnessy)
in
Raintree County
(1957)