The Third Man (1949)

Trevor Howard: Maj. Calloway

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• Maj. Calloway : Go home Martins, like a sensible chap. You don't know what you're mixing in, get the next plane.

  Holly Martins : As soon as I get to the bottom of this, I'll get the next plane.

  Maj. Calloway : Death's at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals.

  Holly Martins : Mind if I use that line in my next Western?

• Maj. Calloway : [to Holly]  You were born to be murdered.

• Maj. Calloway : We should have dug deeper than a grave.

• Maj. Calloway : I told you to go away, Martins. This isn't Santa Fe. I'm not a sheriff and you aren't a cowboy. You've been blundering around with the worst bunch of racketeers in Vienna, your precious Harry's friends, and now you're wanted for murder.

  Holly Martins : Put down drunk and disorderly too.

  Maj. Calloway : I have.

• Holly Martins : I guess nobody really knew Harry like he did... like I did.

  Maj. Calloway : How long ago?

  Holly Martins : Back in school. I was never so lonesome in my life until he showed up.

  Maj. Calloway : When did you see him last?

  Holly Martins : September, '39.

  Maj. Calloway : When the business started?

  Holly Martins : Um, hmm.

  Maj. Calloway : See much of him before that?

  Holly Martins : Once in a while. Best friend I ever had.

  Maj. Calloway : That sounds like a cheap novelette.

  Holly Martins : Well, I write cheap novelettes.

• Holly Martins : Listen, Callahan!

  Maj. Calloway : Calloway. I'm English, not Irish.

• Maj. Calloway : Next time we'll have a foolproof coffin.

• Maj. Calloway : It had meningitis. They gave it some of Lime's penicillin. Terrible pity, isn't it.

• [last lines] 

  Maj. Calloway : Be sensible, Martins.

  Holly Martins : l haven't got a sensible name, Calloway.

• Maj. Calloway : l never knew there were snake charmers in Texas.

• Maj. Calloway : lt wasn't the German gin.

• Holly Martins : There was a third man there. l suppose that doesn't sound peculiar to you.

  Maj. Calloway : l'm not interested in whether a racketeer like Lime was killed by his friends or by an accident. The only important thing is that he's dead.

• Holly Martins : Did you ever hear of "The Lone Rider of Santa Fe"?

  Maj. Calloway : Can't say that l have.

  Holly Martins : "Death at Double-X Ranch"? Uh, "Raunch".

• Maj. Calloway : Miss Schmidt, you were intimate with Lime, weren't you ?

• Maj. Calloway : He gave you the number of the Casanova Club. That's where a lot of friends of Lime used to go.