Charlton Heston credited as playing...
Mike Vargas
- Vargas: This isn't the real Mexico. You know that. All border towns bring out the worst in a country. I can just imagine your mother's face if she could see our honeymoon hotel.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Well, Captain, I'm afraid this is finally something you can't talk your way out of.
- Quinlan: You want to bet?
- Dist. Atty. Adair: Well, here comes Hank at last. Vargas, you've heard of Hank Quinlan, our local police celebrity.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: I'd like to meet him.
- Coroner: That's what you think.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Susie, one of the longest borders on earth is right here between your country and mine. An open border. Fourteen hundred miles without a single machine gun in place. Yeah, I suppose that all sounds very corny to you.
- Susan: I could love being corny, if my husband would only cooperate.
- Quinlan: Our friend Vargas has some very special ideas about police procedures. He seems to think it don't matter whether the killer's hanged or not, as long as we obey the fine print in the rulebook.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Captain, I don't think a policeman should work like a dog catcher.
- Quinlan: No?
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Putting criminals behind bars, no! In any free country, a policeman is supposed to enforce the law and the law protects the guilty as well as the innocent.
- Quinlan: Our job is tough enough.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: It's supposed to be tough! It has to be tough.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: This could be very bad for us.
- Susan: For us?
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: For Mexico, I mean.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: You are a policeman, aren't you?
- Quinlan: Aren't you? You don't seem very fond of the job.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: There are plenty of soldiers who don't like war.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: You're an honest cop!
- Pete Menzies: Sure, I am. And who made me an honest cop? Hank Quinlan.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Come on, Menzies.
- Pete Menzies: I am what I am because of him.
- Schwartz: Intuition?
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Why not? Quinlan doesn't have a monopoly on hunches.
- Vargas: [to Quinlan] What make you so very sure it was dynamite?
- Quinlan: My leg.
- Vargas: Your what?
- Pete Menzies: His game leg. Sometimes he gets a kind of twinge, like folks do for a change of weather. "Intuition," he calls it.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Can you tell me who's in charge here?
- Blaine: I can't even tell you what happened.
- Blaine: Why aren't you back in Mexico City? Isn't that dope trial coming up?
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Grandi's? It's next Thursday. I'd hoped to go back on the morning plane.
- Quinlan: It was one of the Grandi kids.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: What makes you so sure of that, Captain?
- Quinlan: Intuition.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Intuition?
- Quinlan: Vargas and his Keystone Cops has given the Grandi family quite a few headaches lately.