Bernard Lee credited as playing...
Inspector Valentine
- French Widow: [referring to smoking] Disgusting habit!
- French Cavalry Officer: But a very useful one sometimes. A friend of mine, Captain Chavasse of the Foreign Legion, leg half shot off. No anesthetic. Smoked a pipe all through the operation. Never felt a thing.
- Inspector Valentine: Good lord. What was he smoking?
- French Cavalry Officer: Opium.
- Inspector Valentine: [after failing to commandeer a taxi with a couple kissing in the back] Don't the police in France come before a pair of lovers?
- Inspector Dubois: In Paris, on a warm afternoon? I'm afraid not.
- Inspector Valentine: [the inspector has just phoned in an all-points bulletin for a stolen milk truck] Your accomplices haven't got a chance. They'll be intercepted within half an hour.
- Lady Warren: Half an hour? Then you've time for a glass of sherry.
- Inspector Valentine: No thank you.
- Lady Warren: Or perhaps a glass of milk? The milkman seems to have left rather a lot today.
- Inspector Valentine: Well?
- Inspector Dubois: He is going to the wine harvest, and the grape waits for no man.
- Inspector Valentine: Nor does Father Brown.
- Inspector Valentine: You'd've made things much easier for us both if you'd told us what you know of Flambeau.
- Father Brown: I cannot tell you what I do not know. All I know is that he walks upon two legs and his head grows above his shoulders.