The Molly Maguires (1970)
Richard Harris: Detective James McParlan
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Quotes
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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.
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Davies : Don't get confused about which side you're on.
Detective James McParlan : I could always tell the buttered side from the dry.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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[last lines]
Detective James McParlan : I'll see you in hell.
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[first lines]
Detective James McParlan : Lager
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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.