Louis Jouvet credited as playing...
L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: I have to admit, I've taken a liking to you, Miss Dora Monier.
- Dora Monier: Me?
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: Because I have to say, you're just my type. When it comes to women, we'll never have a chance.
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: We move in all kinds of circles, meet a lot of people. I learned engraving from a counterfeiter, accounting from a swindler. A taxi dancer tried to teach me the tango, but nothing doing. It wasn't up my alley.
- Dora Monier: I wasn't his type. Brignon was a bourgeois, very shy. I'm too off-putting. He needed these young girls he could dominate.
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: A dirty old man.
- Dora Monier: Yes.
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: So you admit having taken these photos?
- Dora Monier: Why not? Aren't nude photos still legal?
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: It depends which ones. But that's Vice business. I'm only interested in the models.
- Dora Monier: Unfortunately, I don't know them. He picked them up everywhere. They came in all shades and sizes.
- Violette: Ah, he's such a nice man. Not like Fernand.
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: Fernand?
- Violette: My boyfriend. He can be so rude.
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: Great. Who cares?
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: I do some Sunday photography. Nothing exciting. I shoot houses, old shops, small streets. Barnivel got me hooked.
- Dora Monier: Barnivel?
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: You don't remember him? A great old guy. Unfortunately, he had this thing about poisoning people. He wiped out his whole family. His wife, two daughters, his brother-in-law. He photographed them on their deathbed. A real artist.
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: What were you doing there? Were you Brignon's mistress or merry Maurice's?
- Dora Monier: Why not both at once?
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: Don't play the saint. I know your kind. You're a go-getter.
- Jenny Lamour: A go-getter? What's that supposed to mean? You poor man. I was born in the dead of winter in a two-room flat. Six of us lived there for 12 years. Twelve years of the landlord yelling for the rent. Stomach-aches because of bad meat. Washing ourselves in the sink. It took my dad six years to die in the back room. Is wanting to leave that go-getting?
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: Of course.
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: Albert! You got nailed?
- L'inspecteur qui arrête Albert: Like a dope. In a raid.
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: I warned you about staying in Pigalle.
- Albert: I ain't in the clink yet.
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: You really care for your friend.
- Dora Monier: For better or worse. I love her.
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: I know.
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: A sordid business.
- Le commissaire principal de la P.J.: It usually is.
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: You get excited, all geared up...
- Le commissaire principal de la P.J.: You expect a good case...
- L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: And it boils down to the usual. Diddly-squat.