Tony Curtis credited as playing...
Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter
- [Lepke's last words before the FBI takes him in for questioning.]
- Lepke: Call Bernice. Tell her I'm gonna be a little late for dinner.
- Lepke: You know, we could do with better movies. How about a nice love story or something, instead of this gangster shit?
- Bernice: You look at me as if you know me. Do you?
- Lepke: [Smiling] Do I?
- Robert Kane: Um... Louis, I'd like you to meet... um... Bernice Greenbaum. Bernice, I'd like you to meet Louis Buchalter. He's an old friend.
- Bernice: Well, Bobby's known me all his life. How... how come we've never met?
- Lepke: Um... I was away a lot.
- Bernice: Oh, at college?
- Lepke: Well, sort of. I... uh... got a good education.
- Bernice: [At a speakeasy] I can't believe this.
- Lepke: You've never been in a joint like this before?
- Bernice: Papa always wants to know where I'm going. He wouldn't believe it if he could see it. I mean... a place with your own key?
- Lepke: I'll give you a key to the world if you want. I'll take you to places your Papa wouldn't even believe. I'll take you to the top. Miami Beach... Hollywood... how would you like that?
- Bernice: You don't have to do all that for me. I'm happy just getting out of Brooklyn every once in a while.
- Lepke: Give him back the money.
- Little Augie: Why, for God's sake?
- Lepke: Look. The guy's in politics. He's thick with the unions. We do him a favor, he's gonna do us a favor.
- Little Augie: Shut up with your crap. The strike ends tomorrow, Lepke.
- Lepke: I say it's a bad mistake.
- Little Augie: $50,000 bucks is a bad mistake? You're out of your mind. I run this joint. Don't you forget it.
- Robert Kane: Look, I don't have to tell you how much I appreciate what you've done for me. You know how much I love you and Bernice.
- Lepke: Yeah, I know. You know this is getting into something more serious. What do you want? Sit down.
- Robert Kane: [He sits] I want to go to Washington.
- Lepke: You've been subpoenaed?
- Robert Kane: [laughs nervously] No, I've been offered a job... in the Justice Department
- Lepke: The Justice Department. You're kidding? You want to be a cop?
- Robert Kane: No, I'll be working in the Legal Department.
- Lepke: That's still a cop. Hey, I hope you don't come running after me.
- Robert Kane: Louis, I'm asking you to let me go. I've got one life to live and I just want to see if I can make it on my own, that's all.