Key Largo (1948)

Lionel Barrymore: James Temple

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Quotes 

• Johnny Rocco : There's only one Johnny Rocco.

  James Temple : How do you account for it?

  Frank McCloud : He knows what he wants. Don't you, Rocco?

  Johnny Rocco : Sure.

  James Temple : What's that?

  Frank McCloud : Tell him, Rocco.

  Johnny Rocco : Well, I want uh ...

  Frank McCloud : He wants more, don't you, Rocco?

  Johnny Rocco : Yeah. That's it. More. That's right! I want more!

  James Temple : Will you ever get enough?

  Frank McCloud : Will you, Rocco?

  Johnny Rocco : Well, I never have. No, I guess I won't. You, do you know what you want?

  Frank McCloud : Yes, I had hopes once, but I gave them up.

  Johnny Rocco : Hopes for what?

  Frank McCloud : A world in which there's no place for Johnny Rocco.

• James Temple : Are you thieves or what? You want money, is this a robbery?

  Toots : Yeah, Pop, we're gonna steal all your towels.

• James Temple : [Praying]  Make the big wave. Send it crashing down on us. Destroy us all, if need be. But punish him.

  Johnny Rocco : Shut up, old man! l'm warning you!

  James Temple : Hear me. Hear me!

  Johnny Rocco : I'll kill you!

  James Temple : Make a big wave. Send it against us. Take us all. But destroy him.

• James Temple : A relief train was dispatched from Miami. The barometer was down to about 26 inches when that train pulled into Homestead. Engineer backed his string of empty coaches into the danger zone... and the hurricane hit. Knocked those coaches right off the track. Two hundred miles an hour, that wind blew. A tidal wave twelve feet high went right across the Key. Whole towns were wiped out. Miles and miles of track were ripped up... and washed away. Nothing was left. More than five hundred bodies were recovered after the storm. And for months afterwards... corpses were found in the mangrove swamps.

• Johnny Rocco : Now what you were saying, that's the truth only you don't believe it. I can see right through you. What you're really thinking is "I'm better than Rocco. He's filth, Like the old man said". Right?

  James Temple : Right!

  Johnny Rocco : He's got a gun, you're thinking, and I haven't. You figure it's the gun? Well listen soldier, thousands of guys got guns but there's only one Johnny Rocco!

• James Temple : [angrily and contemptuously addressing Rocco]  You shouldn't have been deported. You should've been EXTERMINATED!

• Frank McCloud : Rocco, I must apologize for Mr. Temple. He doesn't know what he's talking about, or, who to.

  Frank McCloud : [addressing Temple]  Sir, Johnny Rocco was more than a king. He was an emperor. His rule extended over beer, slot machines, the numbers racket, and a dozen other forbidden enterprises. He was a master of the fix. Whom he couldn't corrupt, he terrified. Whom he couldn't terrify, he murdered.

  James Temple : [contemptuously glaring at Rocco]  You filth. You city filth.

  Frank McCloud : Oh, Mr. Temple, you're hopelessly old-fashioned. Your ideas date back years. You're still living in the time when America thought it could get along without the Johnny Roccos.

  Frank McCloud : [turning to Rocco]  Welcome back, Rocco. It was all a mistake. America's sorry for what it did to you.