Keenan Wynn: George Winters aka Pinky Hamilton

Quotes 

• [Eric has discovered that a clerk is really a great jazz pianist thought to have died in a train wreck thirty years before] 

  Pinky Hamilton : If you tell another soul, I shall sue you for defamation of character, for slander and libel and I shall take away your last penny and possession. You have heard my last word. Watch it!

  Eric Jason : I have the perfect defense, Mr. Winters.

  Pinky Hamilton : And that is what?

  Eric Jason : Your photograph... and it says your name is Pinky Hamilton. As a matter of fact, it looks exactly like you. Oh, don't take it too hard, Mr. Winters. Like I told you, it's money in the bank. You can quit that little old desk job, buy a sloop and follow the sun!

• Pinky Hamilton : Look that's all gone now. That's out of my life!

  Joe Scranton : You don't have to get nervous, Pinky. He thinks I came here to kill him.

  Pinky Hamilton : I'm sure of it.

  Joe Scranton : You see, he's got it stuck in his head. Crazy... I hold a grudge ten years, maybe twenty, but there is a statute of limitations. It's been a long time since I wanted to rub you out, Pinky.

• Eric Jason : The way he talks - sometimes I get the sneaky feeling he just wants to be friendly.

  Pinky Hamilton : Boy, I can tell you weren't raised in Chicago.

  Eric Jason : But he acts like he's lonesome, like a Civil War veteran when they're all dying out.

  Pinky Hamilton : You're sayin' after a guy knocks off all his buddies, he's gotta turn to his enemies for company.

  Eric Jason : Don't knock it, Pinky. Let's hope it's so.

• Pinky Hamilton : You know what "Chicago Style" really means? A big show of brotherly love while somebody's pouring prussic acid in your soup.