- Nancy Hobbs: What do I do now, Johnny?
- Johnny O'Clock: Dry your eyes and blow your nose in the order named.
- Inspector Koch: It's my opinion that you both had reasons to murder Blayden.
- Guido Marchettis: It's my opinion that you're whistling through your teeth.
- Inspector Koch: Where can I get in touch with you if I need you.
- Nancy Hobbs: I don't know. Here, I guess.
- Inspector Koch: Here?
- Nancy Hobbs: A room is a room.
- Inspector Koch: You're alright.
- Nancy Hobbs: Yeah. Hard as nails. Nothing ever moves me. Now get out of here and let me cry by myself.
- Inspector Koch: In return for certain information...
- Johnny O'Clock: You'll do what?
- Inspector Koch: I'll give you a break.
- Johnny O'Clock: My arms or my legs?
- Johnny O'Clock: Punchy?
- Punchy: Yeah.
- Johnny O'Clock: Did you see Blayden leave the club last night?
- Punchy: Me? I never see nuttin'.
- Slatternly Woman Tenant: [reading the police report lying on the table] It says here she had poison in her stomach. What does that mean?
- Inspector Koch: It means you're a very nosy woman. Will you get out of here and let me work.
- Slatternly Woman Tenant: All right, handle it yourself then.
- [the waiter at Joe's puts down two filled shot glasses the moment Johnny and Nancy sit down]
- Johnny O'Clock: Who ordered these?
- Waiter: Did ya ever eat here?
- Johnny O'Clock: No.
- Waiter: You'll need 'em.
- Chuck Blayden: You get in my way and I'll kill you.
- Johnny O'Clock: You took the words right out of my mouth.
- Guido Marchettis: [to Johnny O'Clock] Me and Turk were talking over old times. I've been telling him how many years we've been together, all the things we've been through, remember Johnny?
- Johnny O'Clock: Yeah, I remember.
- Guido Marchettis: That's why I know I'll never have to worry about you!
- Nelle Marchettis: [Choking on her drink, and laughing at Guido's ironic statement]
- Guido Marchettis: [to his wife Nelle] What's the matter with you?
- Nelle Marchettis: [Still laughing] I, uh I choked on a piece of scotch!
- Inspector Koch: It says in my book that any confession obtained by so-called 'third degree' methods is not admissable in court.
- Johnny O'Clock: It's nice to know you can read.
- Inspector Koch: There is nothing you have to say to me?
- Johnny O'Clock: Spiderman, spinning webs.
- Inspector Koch: I feel sorry for you.
- Inspector Koch: [scoffingly] You're stupid. Smart boy. Stupid!
- Johnny O'Clock: Stupid? How much money have you got?
- Inspector Koch: How much time have you got to live?
- Inspector Koch: [at the front desk of the hotel] Excuse me.
- Phil: [in dealing with other guests] In a minute.
- Inspector Koch: Thank you.
- Phil: [a few seconds later in cleaning up the cigar ashes Koch has flicked onto the counter] We have ashtrays.
- Inspector Koch: Oh, excuse me.
- Phil: [looking up to deal with Koch directly now] We're all filled up.
- Inspector Koch: Oh, I imagine. Nice hotel.
- Phil: Thank you.
- Inspector Koch: Looking for a man. I think he lives here.
- Phil: [sarcastically] You're not sure?
- Inspector Koch: His name is Johnny O'Clock.
- Phil: "Johnny O'Clock." That's a funny kind of name.
- Inspector Koch: Does he live here?
- Phil: [matter-of-factly shaking his head negatively] Never heard of him.
- Inspector Koch: How about Joe Finch? Phil Briggs? George Baker?
- [Phil shakes his head negatively after each name]
- Phil: I thought you were looking for one man.
- Inspector Koch: I am, he just has different names? Perhaps if I described him to you...
- Phil: [as he turns ready to walk away] I'm sorry, I really haven't the time...
- Inspector Koch: [grabbing Phil's arm to bring him back] Oh well...
- Inspector Koch: [flashing his police badge to Phil] About six foot tall, dresses very well. Dapper you might say.
- Phil: [now cooperatively] He's in fifteen fourteen.
- Inspector Koch: Thanks. You're very cooperative.
- [last lines]
- Johnny O'Clock: [injured with a gunshot wound, pointing a gun at Koch, catching him by surprise as he enters the room] Don't bother raising your hands. Just keep 'em at your sides.
- Inspector Koch: You're out of your mind.
- Johnny O'Clock: That's right... crazy. Crazy smart.
- Inspector Koch: Put that gun down.
- Johnny O'Clock: I tell you what you're gonna do, Koch. You're gonna walk me out the front door, past everybody. If they stop us, you'll tell 'em I gave myself up, you arrested me.
- Inspector Koch: You think I'd say that.
- Johnny O'Clock: Listen to me. I got a bullet in my gut, and fire in my brain. It wouldn't take much for me to let you have it right now.
- Nancy Hobbs: [desperately in hearing Johnny's words as she rushes to his side] Johnny, you don't know what you're doing. You don't know what you're saying.
- Johnny O'Clock: All I know is in this gun.
- Inspector Koch: All I know is that I got to bring you in. When we get to the door, I'll tell 'em to shoot.
- Johnny O'Clock: All right, so they'll shoot...
- Nancy Hobbs: No! It's not all right, not for me, it isn't. Oh Johnny, give yourself up.
- Johnny O'Clock: Nancy, I haven't got a chance. All my life, this guy's been chasing me...
- Nancy Hobbs: Johnny, it's the pain. You're weak, you're hurt...
- Johnny O'Clock: [defiantly] I know what I'm saying. He's been looking to get something on me. Now, he's got it. Even if I told the truth...
- Inspector Koch: [yelling back] What is the truth.
- Johnny O'Clock: [about Marchettis' shooting] It was self defense.
- Inspector Koch: His wife said you shot him in cold blood, for money.
- Johnny O'Clock: That's a lie!
- Inspector Koch: If it's a lie, it'll come out.
- Johnny O'Clock: In storybooks. This is too good a frame.
- Inspector Koch: Nobody's out to frame you, O'Clock.
- Inspector Koch: [to Nancy] If you want him alive, tell him to drop that gun.
- Nancy Hobbs: [increasingly passionate as she goes on] No. I don't want him alive. I want him dead. I want to cry for him. I haven't had enough tears, I want more. I want to be able to say, "Do you know who I'm crying for? Johnny O'Clock! Do you know who he was? The smartest man in the world." I know, because he told me so. "Johnny O'Clock's not a fool," he said. "No fool!" That's why he's dead... because he's no fool!
- [Nancy quickly turns to hide her head as she wants to cry in peace. After a long pause, Johnny throws the gun on the ground, it making a loud thud]
- Nancy Hobbs: [running to Johnny's side to embrace him while Koch picks up the gun] Johnny, Johnny...
- Johnny O'Clock: [matter-of-factly to Koch] Well, it looks like it's going to be a hot day.
- Inspector Koch: Not too hot.
- Johnny O'Clock: Wanna bet?
- Inspector Koch: Bet? I'll lay ya odds.
- [Nancy and Koch support Johnny on either side as the three of them exit the room together]
- [first lines]
- Newsboy: [yelling the nature of the paper's headline] Paper, paper, read all about it. Big gambler shot while resisting arrest.
- Johnny O'Clock: Anything else you wanna know?
- Nancy Hobbs: Anything else I ought to know?
- Johnny O'Clock: Close the book. She was a nice kid. Let it go at that.
- Nancy Hobbs: The words don't go with the music!