The Crimson Kimono (1959)

Glenn Corbett: Det. Sgt. Charlie Bancroft

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• [last lines] 

  Mac : Come on, Charles, let's belt a few, hmm?

  Det. Sgt. Charlie Bancroft : Mac, you're a pearl.

  Mac : Thank you, dear boy. But I prefer something made by man... to something made by an oyster.

• [first lines] 

  Det. Joe Kojaku : [continuing the interrogation in the police's murder investigation]  Did she have a Japanese boyfriend?

  Casale : I told you, I never mixed in her personal business.

  Det. Sgt. Charlie Bancroft : What did you have against her?

  Casale : Who said I had anything against her? She was shifty as smoke, but I liked her.

  Det. Sgt. Charlie Bancroft : [about the shooter]  Then why didn't you try and stop him when he went for her with a gun?

  Casale : Ahhh, I didn't like her that much!

• Det. Sgt. Charlie Bancroft : [picking up the phone]  Homicide. Bancroft.

  Mac : [clearly drunk, drinking from a small bottle of bourbon]  Macalister reporting - front and center.

  Det. Sgt. Charlie Bancroft : Huh?

  Mac : There's nothing like 100-proof heaven to make the mind clear, and the... and the memory sharp.

• Christine Downs : You don't look like a cop.

  Det. Sgt. Charlie Bancroft : Well, now, that word doesn't fit those full lips of yours.

  Christine Downs : Oh?

  Det. Sgt. Charlie Bancroft : Well, you see, we don't like being called "cops," like girls don't like being called "broads".