The Racket (1928)
Louis Wolheim: Nick Scarsi
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[first lines]
[McQuigg ducks into a doorway when one of Scari's henchmen shoots at but purposely misses him. Scarsi emerges from behind the door]
Nick Scarsi : Hello, Mac.
Police Captain James McQuigg : Hello, Nick.
Nick Scarsi : Take a tip, Mac... change your racket.
Police Captain James McQuigg : I like my racket... and I haven't shot yet.
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Chick : What about McQuigg?
Nick Scarsi : Leave that copper to me.
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Joe Scarsi : Are there going to be any women at the party?
Nick Scarsi : No women! Women are poison to me.
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Helen Hayes : You can get away with murder, but you can't pull that stuff on me!
Nick Scarsi : Lay off this kid, you dirty little gold digger! He's not in the racket - and he's not going to be!
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Nick Scarsi : Beat it!
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Police Captain James McQuigg : [Arresting Nick] This time - it's a horse on you.
Nick Scarsi : Maybe.
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Police Captain James McQuigg : This is the last murder you'll ever get away with in my district! I'm going to drive you out!
Nick Scarsi : I've given you lots of chances - but you're just a dumb harp. So *you're* going out!
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Nick Scarsi : I sent my driver in here to see that Hayes girl... Did he do something wrong?
Police Captain James McQuigg : I thought he was in the pen for some bank job.
Nick Scarsi : He must've got paroled.
Police Captain James McQuigg : Yeh... A lot do, since they equipped that penitentiary with revolving doors.
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Nick Scarsi : Are you trying to frame *me*?
Police Captain James McQuigg : In purple satin, under glass.
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Helen Hayes : So you're Scarsi, the Awful - - afraid of women, but death on kids! Nobody ought to be afraid of you... Not when you had to slug this baby!
Nick Scarsi : What'd he get in my way for?
Helen Hayes : There's your confession!
Police Captain James McQuigg : All of which proves that women are still poison to you.
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Nick Scarsi : I'll show you what it means to fool around with *me*!
District Attorney Welch : Who'd believe you?
Nick Scarsi : I've got everything on paper - - ready for a double-cross by you! How you made that high hat grand jury fold up last month... How the Old Man had that kid in the Treasurer's Office *accidentally* killed by a train! Who do you suppose I pay for the breweries I own? Who do you suppose I pay for the alcohol I get? I'll talk your whole rotten Organization into suicide!
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Nick Scarsi : Did you imagine I'd let any lousy politicians, who'd knock their own mothers over the head for a vote, tell *me* what to do?
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Nick Scarsi : I'm off you worms! I'm going to deliver my Wards to the reform gang for a laugh! To lick *you*, we'll have an election for a change that's square!