The Molly Maguires (1970)

Richard Harris: Detective James McParlan

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Quotes 

• Miss Mary Raines : You heard what the Father said. There's no future for what you joined except hell.

  Detective James McParlan : Well I'm a miner now. I'll be traveling in that direction anyway, just out of habit.

• Davies : Don't get confused about which side you're on.

  Detective James McParlan : I could always tell the buttered side from the dry.

• Jack Kehoe : I'm thinking... you'd better be what we think you are.

  Detective James McParlan : I'm what you think!

  Jack Kehoe : 'Cause if you're not... there's no hole deep enough to hide this time.

• Davies : Yes, I need them caught in the act... no chance of an alibi. And not just two of them. I want the organisation. I want it smashed. Any bastard who even dreams of making trouble, I want him to wake up sweating blood at what happened to the Molly Maguires.

  [McParlan starts to leave] 

  Davies : Not yet! I can't send you away unmarked.

  [he floors McParlan with his truncheon] 

  Detective James McParlan : [bleeding]  Well... it's a pleasure working with a man who likes his job.

• Detective James McParlan : Dougherty, then? You've time enough for that. He's not hanged yet.

  Jack Kehoe : You're a cool one.

  Detective James McParlan : That's the difference between us, Jack.

  Jack Kehoe : I have no coolness in me at all.

• [last lines] 

  Detective James McParlan : I'll see you in hell.

• [first lines] 

  Detective James McParlan : Lager

• Miss Mary Raines : [answering her door and seeing James for the first time]  What do you want?

  Detective James McParlan : [after a pause when taken aback at seeing Samantha for the first time]  I'll settle for a room.