Don't Talk (1942)

Donald Douglas: FBI Agent Jack Sampson

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  MGM Crime Reporter : Once again, as the MGM crime reporter, it is my privilege to bring you another episode in our Crime Does Not Pay series. For obvious reasons, the events and characters depicted herein are fictitious. My I present Mr. Jack Sampson, special agent in charge of a field division office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

  FBI Agent Jack Sampson : Our war program, the most unprecedented in history, calls not only for the production of tanks and guns, planes and ships, but also for the building of a defense against enemy agents within our borders, agents who once again threaten, as they did in 1917. Let us review a typical cast that began in the early morning hours of November 29th, 1941, in a large industrial plant, where a quantity of ferro-manganese, an ore vitally essential in the manufacture of machine tools, was awaiting the furnace...

• [last lines] 

  FBI Agent Jack Sampson : Your president has said this war will be won by industrial production. To speed this victory, wartime industry is now protected by every precaution your government's vigilance can effect. You, the citizenry of America, constitute the first line of industrial defense. Be on guard. Build a wall of silence around your business, your activities. And at all times exercise the caution of thinking twice before talking once.

• FBI Agent Jack Sampson : That manganese was a secret shipment, wasn't it?

  Jules Harmon : That's right.

  FBI Agent Jack Sampson : Who handled it?

  Jules Harmon : Five of my dependable men. They wouldn't talk.

  FBI Agent Jack Sampson : Sometimes, Mr. Harmon, a man might talk without meaning to.

• FBI Agent Jack Sampson : Where do you get shaved?

  First Tool Works Employee : At Joe's. He's at 5th and Adams.

  FBI Agent Jack Sampson : Patronize any barrooms?

  First Tool Works Employee : A couple. The Circle and Max's Place

  FBI Agent Jack Sampson : Where do you eat?

  First Tool Works Employee : Unusually just across the street from the plant at the Elite Cafe.

  FBI Agent Jack Sampson : Who's your barber?

  First Tool Works Employee II : I shave myself. Say, what's all this about? I told you I don't talk about my work.

  FBI Agent Jack Sampson : Just the same, one or two of you might have dropped an idle word that was picked up by some big-eared bartender or bellhop.