The Front Page (1931)

Slim Summerville: Pincus

Quotes 

• Irving Pincus : Can we help it if the people rise to support this administration's stand against the Red menace!

  Sheriff Hartman : Personified by Mr. Earl Williams. The guy who loses his job he's held for 14 years, joins a parade of unemployed, and, because he's goofy from lack of food, waves a red handkerchief.

  Irving Pincus : Williams is a dangerous radical! And he killed a policeman.

  Jimmy Murphy : Williams is a poor bird who had the tough luck to kill a colored policeman in a town where the colored vote counts!

• Irving Pincus : He won't find he's insane.

  Roy B. Bensinger : No?

  Irving Pincus : No! Because he ain't! Williams is as sane as I am.

  Molly Molloy : Saner.

• Roy B. Bensinger : Now, Pete, how about a favor that certain party is asking? Once and for all, will you hang this person at 5 AM instead of 7? It can't hurt you and we can make the City Edition.

  Irving Pincus : Roy, we can't hang a fella in his sleep just to please the newspaper.

• Irving Pincus : The newspapers are gonna put their shoulders to the wheel. They got to impress on these Bolsheviks that a death warrant for Earl Williams is a death warrant for every bomb-throwing, unAmerican, Red in this town!

• Irving Pincus : We're gonna reform the Reds with a Rope. That's our slogan! You can quote me, if you want to. Sheriff Hatman pledges...