Man Against Crime Quotes

Mike Barnett: You're an out-of-towner, Thorton. Before you pushed a parcheesi game, you should have read the penal code.
Thorton: Maintaining a public nuisance. I can afford that, too.
Mike Barnett: That's Section 971, but can you afford Section 995?
Thorton: What's that?
Mike Barnett: It has to do with swindling. Roughly it means that a friend of mine is calling the cops right now.
Thorton: Yeah?
Mike Barnett: Yeah! So you be handy in the morning when the District Attorney institutes a civil suit against you to recover three times what you took from those people out there. That's 995 - can you roll a higher number?

Movie: Man Against Crime
[Fenway's late arrival caused him to miss a fatal payroll robbery]
Mike Barnett: Well, three people know about this for sure. I think I'll start with them.
Fenway: Three people? Which three people?
Mike Barnett: The late Mr. Theodore Hummel, the late Mr. Adams and the half hour late Mr. Fenway.

Movie: Man Against Crime