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Helen Broderick and James Gleason in Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)

James Gleason: Police Insp. Oscar Piper

Murder on a Bridle Path

James Gleason credited as playing...

Police Insp. Oscar Piper

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  • Police Insp. Oscar Piper: [sarcastically] Hildegarde, you're as funny as a cry for help.
  • Police Insp. Oscar Piper: [In frustration] Well, I'm a speckled ape!
  • Hildegarde Withers: [Dryly] This is no time for a confession, Oscar.
  • Police Insp. Oscar Piper: I don't see why I always have to miss my breakfast for these accidents!
  • Hildegarde Withers: [Arriving on the scene to hear Oscar's complaint] I had an uncle who thought the World War would have been an accident.
  • Police Insp. Oscar Piper: Hildegarde, this may be what the French call a crime of passion.
  • Hildegarde Withers: Oscar, don't you think we ought to try to keep this case clean?
  • Police Insp. Oscar Piper: [as Hildegarde tries to get into the police car with Oscar] Well, where do you think you're goin'? What are you always following me for?
  • Hildegarde Withers: I don't know, Oscar. I guess it's because you always bring out the mother in me.
  • Police Insp. Oscar Piper: [Seeing Hildegarde going through a pair of empty pants] Are you sure you were never married?
  • Hildegarde Withers: There's a time and place to be funny.
  • Hildegarde Withers: How can you find out if a man has false teeth?
  • Police Insp. Oscar Piper: Get 'im mad enough to bite yuh.
  • Police Insp. Oscar Piper: There ain't a dame on earth I can't forget in six months.

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