Lloyd Nolan credited as playing...
Michael Shayne
- Ponsby, Brightons' Butler: [admiring the large mansion] Quite a little nest you have here, Ponsby!
- Ponsby, Brightons' Butler: Yes, sir. We think it rather cozy.
- Michael Shayne: Cozy, heh!
- [laughs]
- Michael Shayne: I'll bet if you walk in your sleep, you need a bicycle.
- Michael Shayne: What do I get paid off in?
- Larry Kincaid: Nice pictures of Washington and Lincoln with numbers on them - big numbers!
- Michael Shayne: [smelling one of Gordon's cigar] It's a good cigar. Hasn't got that awful smell of tobacco.
- Chief Painter: When are you gonna start talking straight?
- Michael Shayne: Not until my attorney gets out of law school!
- Chief Painter: [arriving to find Shayne at the murder scene] Shayne? What are you doing here?
- Michael Shayne: Ask me later. I haven't thought of an answer yet.
- Aunt Olivia: It was the great piano mystery. The body was found under the piano, his throat was strangled with piano wires, the soft pedal was found imbedded in his neck, and somebody had completely severed the head from the body. He was dead!
- Michael Shayne: [dryly] Oh, suicide, hmmm?
- Phyllis Brighton: [as Shayne returns to the mansion after being knocked unconscious] What happened to you?
- Michael Shayne: I tore my pants.
- Phyllis Brighton: Your head! What'd you do to it?
- Michael Shayne: It was open by mistake.
- Aunt Olivia: When I was young - I mean a little younger - in New York I played Madame Butterfly.
- Michael Shayne: You did?
- Aunt Olivia: Mmmm-hmmm.
- Michael Shayne: What race?