- Inspector Slimane: When one can't use guns, one must work with brains.
- Commissioner Janvier: I prefer guns!
- Inspector Slimane: In your case, honest sir, such a preference is unavoidable.
- Gaby: It's late. I must go.
- Pepe le Moko: Suppose you don't come tomorrow?
- Gaby: Suppose I don't? Can't you ever get away from the Casbah?
- Pepe le Moko: Why do you ask?
- Gaby: Can't you?
- Pepe le Moko: No. I'm caught here, like a bear in a hole. Dogs barking, hunters all around, no way out of it. Do you like that? Maybe it's lucky for you.
- Gaby: I don't like it. And it's not lucky.
- Pepe le Moko: You're right. If you don't come back, I might do anything. I might go down to your hotel to get you.
- Gaby: Tomorrow, Pepe.
- Pepe le Moko: Tomorrow?
- Gaby: I never break a promise.
- Inspector Slimane: You're important now because you're free. Once you're behind bars, people forget all about you.
- Andre Giraux: Where are you going?
- Gaby: A walk.
- Andre Giraux: But where?
- Gaby: On the Champs-Élysées.
- Andre Giraux: May I ask you to give me a sensible answer.
- Gaby: Then ask a sensible question. Where could I go? I don't know anyone in Algiers. I just walk straight ahead.
- Andre Giraux: Straight ahead? And where does that take you?
- Gaby: I'll know when I get there.
- Pepe le Moko: What did you do before?
- Gaby: Before what?
- Pepe le Moko: Before... the jewels.
- Gaby: I wanted them.
- Commissioner Janvier: By his looks, I'd say he was too lazy to make an arrest.
- Inspector Slimane: I'm merely careful.
- Commissioner Janvier: Which means to say that you're looking out for your own skin.
- Inspector Slimane: It's the only skin I have.
- Pepe le Moko: You're beautiful. That's easy to say. I know that other people have told you. But what I'm telling you is different, see? For to me you're more than that.
- Inspector Slimane: I'm sorry, Pepe. He thought you were going to escape.
- Pepe le Moko: And so I have, my friend.
- Pepe le Moko: Did you ever see a clock that pointed to two and struck four when it is really quarter-past-twelve? Well, your friend Regis is like that. He doesn't ring true.
- [first lines]
- Commissioner Janvier: I'm not interested in hearing excuses about local conditions. No doubt there are local conditions. Here's a criminal who's exploits have made him notorious throughout Europe. He escaped from France with a fortune in jewels and for two years he's been living here in Algiers, within a stone's throw of your headquarters.
- Louvain: As you say, Commissioner.
- Commissioner Janvier: I'm here to settle this - and I want it done quickly.
- Louvain: We've been trying to settle the case of Pepe le Moko for two years.
- Commissioner Janvier: In Paris, we handle more difficult cases every day.
- Louvain: Too bad you didn't arrest him before he escaped from France. Merely an oversight, no doubt.
- Louvain: It's only a step from the modern city, the Casbah; but, when you take that step - you enter another world. A melting pot for all the sins of the earth.
- Pepe le Moko: You know what I like about you?
- Inspector Slimane: No. But, I'm humbly waiting for you to tell me.
- Pepe le Moko: Your face. It's a perfect face for your job. To look that false is almost the equivalent of being honest.
- Pepe le Moko: [admiring Gaby's diamond bracelet] This is something.
- Gaby: Isn't it. And it hardly weighs anything. Look.
- Pepe le Moko: At least 20,000 francs, hmm?
- Gaby: Add a zero.
- Pepe le Moko: Oh, I mean, what I would get for it.
- [Gaby laughs]
- Pepe le Moko: Here, put it on again.
- Gaby: You put it on.
- Opening Title Card: ALGIERS - Where blazing desert meets the blue Mediterranean, and modern Europe jostles ancient Africa. A stone's throw from the modern city, the native quarter, known as the *Casbah*, stands like a fortress above the sea. Its population includes many tribes and races, drifters and outcasts from all parts of the world - - and criminals who find this a safe hiding place from the long arm of the law.
- Pepe le Moko: No. Pearls don't suit you at all, Carlos. You're not the type.
- Grandpere: He'd look better with rings in his ears.
- Pepe le Moko: Yes and one in his nose.
- Grandpere: He's definitely uncouth.
- Pepe le Moko: You took the words out of my mouth.
- Pepe le Moko: So, you wanted to take another look at the strange, wild animal?
- Gaby: Strange - but, not so very wild.
- Pepe le Moko: How do you like my cage?
- Gaby: I don't know - yet.
- Pepe le Moko: What are you laughing at?
- Gaby: Nothing.
- Pepe le Moko: Too bad.
- Gaby: Too bad?
- Pepe le Moko: Too bad I don't know you better.
- Gaby: Why?
- Pepe le Moko: Because, I would slap your face. When people laugh around me, I like to know why.
- Andre Giraux: I won't allow you to behave like this.
- Gaby: I'm glad you told me.
- Andre Giraux: What do you mean?
- Gaby: We've got to be honest. Why do you think I'm marrying you? Look at yourself and then look at me.
- Inspector Slimane: So, you're the one to betray him. You couldn't wait to run to me. You call it love; but, it means you'd kill him before you'd let him go free. That's what you've done. As sure as if you'd held a gun in your hands.
- Gaby: Your hotel bores me. The Head Waiter looks like an undertaker. And every time I step into this apartment, it looks more like a funeral parlor. Goodbye, darling.
- Andre Giraux: I know where you're going.
- Gaby: Huh?
- Andre Giraux: You're going to the Casbah!
- Louvain: Pepe le Moko lives in the Casbah.
- Commissioner Janvier: Why not go in? Take him out?
- Louvain: You can't arrest a King in his own Palace.
- Louvain: As a civilized man, you don't like fantasy.
- Commissioner Janvier: As a police officer, I don't believe in it.
- Inspector Slimane: To arrest him in the Casbah, distinguished colleague, would be simple. To get him out, would be impossible.
- Inspector Slimane: Was there anything special about her?
- Pepe le Moko: Yes. Pearls. The color I like. Handcuffs I can appreciate. Platinum and diamonds. And she didn't buy that perfume in Algiers.
- Inspector Slimane: So, all you noticed was the jewels and perfume?
- Pepe le Moko: Was there anything else?
- Inspector Slimane: What about the eyes?
- Pepe le Moko: Well, they all have eyes. But, all of that chichi and jingle - you don't see much of that in the Casbah.
- Inspector Slimane: But you do where she comes from.
- Gaby: I'll come back.
- Pepe le Moko: When?
- Gaby: As soon as I can.
- Pepe le Moko: When?
- Gaby: Tomorrow.
- Pepe le Moko: How can I be sure?
- Gaby: I never break a promise.
- Pepe le Moko: Do you know what you are to me? Paris. That's you. Paris. With you, I escape. Follow me? The whole town. A Spring morning in Paris. You're lovely. You're marvelous. And you know what you remind me of? The subway. Close your eyes. Listen. Can you hear it?
- Gaby: That's my heart beating.
- Pepe le Moko: Does it go like a subway train?
- Gaby: Faster.
- Pepe le Moko: You're all silk and you jingle when you walk and with all that chichi you make me think of the subway. Isn't that funny?
- Pepe le Moko: It's not your fault.
- Ines: I won't let you do it. I won't let you! You'll be killed.
- Pepe le Moko: Then, blame it on the Casbah.
- Andre Giraux: I was puzzled when you phoned.
- Inspector Slimane: My mission is rather a delicate one. But, necessary. I merely wish to suggest that your fiancée is a little too fond of - shall we say, the local color of the Casbah.
- Andre Giraux: What is all this?
- Inspector Slimane: The Casbah's hardly the place for a woman alone. She attracts too much attention, excites too much desire.
- Louvain: Seen from a bird's eye view, the Casbah is a great staircase. Each step is a terrace rising from the sea.
- Ines: Why don't you believe me, Pepe? All I want is to please you. I couldn't lie to you.
- Pepe le Moko: Couldn't you? What about all that time you kept telling me that you didn't like me?
- Ines: But, this is serious.
- Pepe le Moko: Ah, so? Love is not serious?
- Pepe le Moko: That was nice of him.
- Ines: That's what I thought.
- Pepe le Moko: Is that all that you thought?
- Ines: Was there anything else for me to think?
- Pepe le Moko: [laughs] That's what I like about you.
- Ines: What?
- Pepe le Moko: Never mind.
- Pepe le Moko: Hold out your hand.
- [reveals a ring]
- Pepe le Moko: Don't grab! It's unlucky.
- Ines: Are you going to give it to me, Pepe?
- Pepe le Moko: No. It's for some fat, old woman.
- Ines: Let me have it, Pepe. Sometime, I'll get fat.
- Commissioner Janvier: No evidence?
- Louvain: Nothing! Are you satisfied?
- Commissioner Janvier: I'm never satisfied!
- Pepe le Moko: He's funny, my friend Slimane. He looks normal, doesn't he? But, he has delusions of grandeur. He thinks he can arrest me.
- Inspector Slimane: Exactly what I'm going to do, Pepe.
- Pepe le Moko: Sure. Sure-sure-sure-sure. How you make me laugh.
- Regis: He's a bad boy; but, a good son. So, it isn't the good son that we'll lock up; but, the bad boy.
- Inspector Slimane: How is Carlos?
- Tania: How should he be?
- Inspector Slimane: Don't tell me your charming husband has been beating you again?
- Tania: You know how it is with a man.
- Inspector Slimane: Well, I can't say I do.
- Tania: They seem to take to it naturally.
- Inspector Slimane: We had one rather unpleasant experience.
- Pepe le Moko: Yeah?
- Inspector Slimane: With you.
- Pepe le Moko: She didn't think so.
- Pepe le Moko: What did she say?
- Inspector Slimane: Well, you know women. They talk about nothing. I hardly listen.