Frank Lovejoy credited as playing...
Bob Duffy
- Bob Duffy: Look, Phyl. I happen to be a sentimental guy that comes from a family of 12 kids. I get lonesome without eleven people around... or even one.
- Bob Duffy: [after his matchsticks collapse at the bar] The way they build things nowadays. No foundation. Just like people.
- Phyllis Horn: There's one legitimate thing about me. The way I love you.
- Bob Duffy: Put it in your column.
- Bob Duffy: Ever since the beginning, you've been in and out of my life like a night visitor. This time don't bother to check in.
- Phyllis Horn: This time there happens to be a war. I didn't start it. I'm sorry there is one. But as long as there is, I'd be a chump if I didn't make it work for me.
- Bob Duffy: I don't like war profiteers. You sell agony by the paragraph.
- Phyllis Horn: I'd like to speak my peace before I go.
- Bob Duffy: Just so you keep it under a thousand words.
- Phyllis Horn: Only two words. I'm scared. I mean it, Duffy. Ever since I sold my first script for five dollars I've been fighting to get to the top. Stepped all over people. Been ruthless, conniving. Fought like a man in a man's world and I made it. But I don't want to lose you, Duffy. 'Cause this is home plate. If I lose you I'll roam around like a homeless alley cat with no place to come back to. Don't throw me out.
- Bob Duffy: Why is it the only time you sound like a woman is in this crummy room?
- Phyllis Horn: 'Cause it's ours, Duffy.
- Bob Duffy: I shouldn't let you in.
- Phyllis Horn: You couldn't keep me out. It's always been that way, Duffy.
- [They kiss]