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Film Quotes by William Schallert

5 quotes
The Man from Planet X
Year: 1951

Director:
Edgar G. Ulmer
Dr. Mears: [to the Man from Planet X]
[laughs]
Dr. Mears: To think - a fantastic gnome like you had to hurdle out of space to put this power in my hands. Well, now that we've made contact, I'm gonna tear out every secret you've got!
The Man from Planet X
Year: 1951

Director:
Edgar G. Ulmer
Dr. Mears: A man who controls this formula controls the industry of the world.
Harry: [Harry picked up Dawn at a miniature golf course and is closing the deal in a cheap hotel room] We didn't discuss your price.
Dawn Wetherby: [with false confidence] Oh, the usual.
Harry: The usual? Now what's that?
Dawn Wetherby: Ten-uh-Twenty dollars.
Harry: [gets out money] Twenty dollars for twenty minutes?
Harry: [Dawn smiles innocently as he hands her the money. She tucks it in her breast pocket]
[Harry is Puzzled]
Harry: How long you been at this?
Dawn Wetherby: Not too long.
Harry: [sighs] Nobody tell you not to stick the money in your pockets? The pros always hide the money from the customer, honey. In the shoe.
Dawn Wetherby: Oh, I guess I forgot.
Harry: [wearily] I guess. How old are you anyway?
Dawn Wetherby: Fif-Eighteen.
Harry: It's Crazy! Hollywood's crawling with hookers, and I wind up with an amateur.
Port Sinister
Year: 1953

Director:
Harold Daniels
[Kolvac and Collins find Garry's seaplane]
John Kolvac: No vital damage as far as I can see. It's just out of gas.
Collins: That's damage enough.
In the Heat of the Night
Year: 1967

Director:
Norman Jewison
Mayor Webb Schubert: What made you change your mind about Tibbs?
Gillespie: Who said I did?
Mayor Webb Schubert: [refering to Tibbs' slapping of a white man] Last Chief we had would've shot Tibbs two seconds after he slapped him and claimed Self Defense !
-- William Schallert (as Mayor Schubert) in In the Heat of the Night (1967)