Adolphe Menjou credited as playing...
Police Lt. Frank Kafka
- Police Photographer: [Referring to photographing the dead body] How about one with the sheet off, Lieutenant? Just one, that's all.
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: Not a chance!
- Police Photographer: Why not? What's the matter?
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: Listen, food's too expensive to spoil people's appetite for breakfast. I wouldn't want a dead girl on my front page.
- Police Photographer: You've got one anyway.
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: I don't like dead girls on the front page or anywhere else.
- Police Sgt. Joe Ferris: [Interjecting] Should've been with me last night. You wouldn't have liked a couple of live ones. I had a lot of trouble last night.
- Police Sgt. Joe Ferris: No word from the boyfriend yet.
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: He'll probably turn up as soon as he reads the papers. From what I know about musicians, they're not that neat when they decide to get rid of their dames.
- Police Insp. Anderson: [noticing that curious onlookers are sticking their heads out of nearby windows] You know, some solid citizens are gonna' get their brains blown out if they don't pull their heads in... not that they got any brains to begin with.
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: Why don't you tell 'em?
- Police Insp. Anderson: I'm waiting for the sound truck...
- Police Insp. Anderson: [Sound truck has arrived, Anderson comes over the loudspeakers] This is Inspector Anderson speaking. Will the people please get their heads out of their windows? I repeat: get your heads out of the windows. There may be shooting here!
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: Maybe he wanted to stop himself for years. Maybe nobody else paid any attention either.
- Police Lt. Frank Kafka: Food's too expensive to spoil people's appetite at breakfast. I wouldn't want a dead girl on my front page.