Whispering Smith (TV Series)

The Mortal Coil (1961)

Audie Murphy: Tom 'Whispering' Smith

Quotes 

• John Richards : Mrs. Richards and I attended a party at Mayor Adams' house last night.

  Whispering Smith : We heard about it.

  John Richards : A decision was reached to promote a civic betterment program.

  George Romack : Civic betterment? What's that?

  Whispering Smith : George, you know what civic betterment is.

  George Romack : No.

  Whispering Smith : Remember them birdbaths the mayor's wife put it? We got the cleanest birds in Colorado Territory.

  George Romack : But the birds never used...

  John Richards : Never mind that!

• John Richards : I want all these men brought in for questioning... Smitty?

  Whispering Smith : Why?

  John Richards : We've got to do something! I know how you feel about Denton, but you've got nothing to go on!

  Whispering Smith : What's your natural reaction when the first words out of a man's mouth is he has an iron-clad alibi?

• John Richards : You're as stubborn as a mule, aren't you?

  Whispering Smith : I don't mean to be, Chief, but Claude Denton did benefit by his brother's death and he did come up with that big alibi unasked and he did have a key to that house.

  John Richards : And he was in Leadville at the time of the murder! Smitty, he's got an air-tight alibi. At least a dozen people in Leadville saw him have his supper, go up to his room and come down for breakfast the next morning.

  Whispering Smith : Yeah - and come down to breakfast ten hours later.

  John Richards : Are you trying to tell me that he could have ridden from Leadville to Denver and back again in one night? That's a good 120 miles. No horse could make that trip.

  Whispering Smith : Anybody ever try?

• George Romack : Boy, you were sure great! How did you make yourself look so much like Denton?

  J. Burton Hamilton : Makeup is one of the most important tools in the actor's kit.

  Whispering Smith : Well, you certainly are an artist with it.

  George Romack : Yeah, but that scheme you thought up to trip Denton wasn't so bad, Smitty.

  Whispering Smith : 'Fraid I can't take credit for that scheme, George. Someone else thought of it first about... How long ago was it Mr. Hamilton?

  J. Burton Hamilton : Two hundred and sixty six years to be exact, Mr. Smith, though I'm quite sure Mr. Shakespeare didn't write it for the benefit of the Denver police department.