Vince Barnett credited as playing...
Charleston
- Jim Reardon: How well did you know the Swede?
- Charleston: Me? Mister, I guess me and the Swede were about as close as two guys can get. For nearly two years we weren't more than eight and a half feet apart. That's how big the cell was.
- Jim Reardon: When was the last time you saw him?
- Charleston: Mister, did you say 'when?'
- Jim Reardon: Yes.
- Charleston: Mister, when it comes to dates, 1492 is the only one I can remember.
- Charleston: Charleston don't talk, see. Even if he's worked over head to foot by experts.
- [takes a drink]
- Charleston: Charleston never talks.
- Jim Reardon: Good enough. You know what happened to the Swede?
- Charleston: I know plenty, mister. Plenty. Only I ain't tellin'.
- [takes a drink]
- Charleston: Old Charleston's the little monkey with his hands over his mouth.
- Charleston: If it's as big as you claim, it's not going to be any easy pickins. Nothing that big ever is. And that's what I want from here on in. Easy pickins.
- 'Dum-Dum' Clarke: It'd go just as hard with you if you were taken for stickin' up a shine parlor.
- Charleston: Yes, that's right, but the chances of being taken aren't as many. I don't know. Maybe - Maybe I'm just gettin' old. It's like you were saying before the Swede come in. I've done a lot of time. I've spent almost half my life in stir, and I don't intend to spend any more.