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Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, Robert Taylor, and John Hodiak in The Bribe (1949)

John Hoyt: Gibbs

The Bribe

John Hoyt credited as playing...

Gibbs

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  • Gibbs: Rigby, this is a very important case. Graft of public assets. War surplus racket. It means a lot to the taxpayers, and incidentally to your own record. You've been chosen because you're a good cop - if you'll excuse the expression.
  • Rigby: I'll excuse it, chief. It's not a dirty word by me.
  • Gibbs: We've discovered that a very smooth racket is being worked in some of the war surplus auctions. Private operators are purchasing huge lots of war surplus material as scrap - most of it is fit only for scrap. But, delivery is being manipulated, so that when the scrap is sent to the junk yard, surplus airplane motors are included in each lot. This scrap is being routed out to South America as ballast in freighters. That's okay as far as the scrap's concerned, but the motors are also carried. Illegally shipped out of the country. They are segregated and unloaded en route, we believe in Central America, where they're conditioned and tested, and then picked up by purchasers who are paying exorbitant prices. The men who are engineering this graft are really cashing in. No regular fees, no shipping charges, and NO income tax. Just several million dollars of illegal profits.
  • Rigby: Right out of Uncle Sam's hide, huh?
  • Gibbs: Bringing in as many motors as possible, with engine numbers intact and identifiable, is your job.
  • Gibbs: The men who are engineering this graft are really cashing in. No regular fees. No shipping charges. And - no - income tax. Just several million of dollars in illegal profits.
  • Rigby: Right out of Uncle Sam's hide.

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