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Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Torchy Blane: Step aside, Gahagan, and let the lady in.
Detective Sergeant Gahagan: Now, quit kiddin' Torchy. You ain't no lady. You're a reporter. And I just got orders to throw you out.

Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: [to Torchy] Are you trying to be sentimental in a cemetary? There's a time and a place for everything. Now keep quiet!

Torchy Blane: Now, listen, you go in and tell that big lug...
Detective Sergeant Gahagan: I ain't gonna tell that big lug nothin' - I mean, Steve. Now, scram!

Torchy Blane: Oh, gee, Skipper. Listen. Aren't you going to stop by the apartment for just a few minutes? I get awful lonesome.
Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: Well, you can read the funny papers.

Captain McTavish: The thing that gets me is why anybody would want burial tablets to rob. Personally, they give me the creeps.
Allan Fitzhugh: Oh, well Captain you're not a collector of jade or you would understand.

Detective Sergeant Gahagan: Now, Torchy, you stop bumpin' my stomach.
Torchy Blane: You ought to start redoing Gahagan. That thing's in everybody's way.

Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: Take him down to the Station House and book him on suspicion until I have a chance the analyze these drinks.
Detective Sergeant Gahagan: Oh, I feel I could animalize those drinks me-self. Well, that's better Scotch than they sell at Moriarty's. Well, it's a shame to turn those drinks over to a shemist.

Torchy Blane: A guy had his head shot off in a car on East 62nd Street and Steve is trying to keep it out of the papers. Yeah. Hold a nice spot open for me on Page One. I'm gonna show that big palooka he can't get away with it.

Torchy Blane: Steve, where's his head?
Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: I don't know where his head is and I don't know who did it. And, once more, you're not going to gum things up by printing a line about this in the paper until I have a chance to find out.

Detective Sergeant Gahagan: [picks up a drink] I feel a poem comin' on: Scotch and Soda, I adore ye, I could drink ye, Till ye floor me.
Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: Put that down.
Detective Sergeant Gahagan: But to temptation, I won't yield, Because I might maybe, Lose my shield.
Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: Yeah and you might maybe lose your life; because, there might maybe be poison in there.

Torchy Blane: Hey, let go of me you big flat feet! You can't do this to me Steve McBride. You can't muzzle the press!

Lem Kee: Even I might be suspected. I am related to that family through my honored great grandfather's half-brother's uncle's sister on her mother's side. Do you wish to arrest me?

Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: What were you doing out on that balcony?
Torchy Blane: Every time I see a balcony the Juliet comes out in me. But, I'm cured. You Romeos play too rough.

Senator Baldwin: This, Lieutenant, is my Jade Room. I keep my treasures here. They're priceless. The most valuable collection in America.
Detective Sergeant Gahagan: Gee, this reminds me of a swell Chop Suey joint. I was in one in Chicago with a blonde and a honey.

Detective Sergeant Gahagan: This is certainly a fascinatiin' case. I could write a poem about it.
Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: Well, it's not that fascinating.
Detective Sergeant Gahagan: Oh, yes it is. Listen to this: This is a fascinatin' case, Steve will solve with ease, We'll prove to Captain McTavish, they ain't so clever, these Chinese.

Mr. Mansfield: They failed to keep their promise and they won't try again tonight because they'd lose face.
Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: What do you mean 'face'?
Captain Condon: Dr. Mansfield means that when a Chinaman makes an appointment to kill you, he plans to keep it to the second. If there's some delay, for some reason, then, he'll try and make an appointment he can keep. It's a question of pride.

Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: Torchy, what are you doin' wanderin' around a graveyard?
Torchy Blane: Oh, I'm a lost soul, Skipper, since you've been neglecting me.

Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: Will you stop being hysterical! What's the matter with you? These killings getting on your nerves?
Torchy Blane: Maybe yes. Maybe no. You know, there's an old Chinese proverb that says the goose observes more than the gander.
Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: Yes and it's a wise goose that knows when not to stick her neck out.
Torchy Blane: Don't you worry about me. I can always duck.

Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: Now, what are you up to?
Torchy Blane: I'm not up to anything, Skipper. This has been an exciting night and speaking man to man, I'm a woman after all.

Senator Baldwin: Is there something wrong?
Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: Is there something wrong? You know we're looking for a mob of Chinese killers and here you got the whole party cluttered up with Orientals.
Senator Baldwin: Come on now, Lieutenant. I don't like your tone. I offered to call the party off, you know. The fact that you weren't informed the entertainers were to be Orientals was merely an oversight.
Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: Yes and its oversights that get people killed.

Det. Lt. Steve 'Mac' McBride: Now, me personally, the last time I was left holding a bag was on my 13th birthday when I went snipe hunting.

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By what name was Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939) officially released in Canada in English?