Glenn Ford credited as playing...
David G. Stannard
- David G. Stannard: [home from work 2 hours early, getting intimate with his wife] Now I see why the unemployed have so many children.
- Police Chief Jim Backett: You could pay the ransom, and get your boy back, or you could not pay and not get him back.
- Charlie Telfer: Or you could refuse to pay, and lose. Or you could refuse to pay, and you still get him back. You see, Stannard, the odds are still 2 to 1 in your favor.
- David G. Stannard: You mean my paying the ransom won't affect the odds of my getting him back at all? Then why pay? Why do people pay?
- Police Chief Jim Backett: It'd be easier for police if nobody did.
- David G. Stannard: What do you mean?
- Charlie Telfer: No ransom, no kidnapping racket, no profit margin.
- David G. Stannard: When you catch that kidnapper, I want you to lock me in a room with him for 20 minutes and throw away the key. Anybody should have that right with the man who steals his kid!
- David G. Stannard: Hot or cold, I have to press on like my son's still alive. That's the barrel they have me over. They don't have to trust me. I have to trust them.
- Charlie Telfer: Exactly. Trick, or treat.