Directed by Wim Wenders and written by Thomas Pope (adaptation), Dennis O'Flaherty, Ross Thomas, based upon the novel by Joe Gores.

Samuel Dashiell Hammett

• Why is he tailing me all over town? Does he think I'm pretty or what?
• I knew you gone sour, Ryan, but I didn't know you gone simple.

Jimmy Ryan

• Her name wasn't really Sue Alabama... It was Sue something Greek and unpronounceable.
• She primed him and I went in on the cleanup.
• Sex was nearly all Sue Alabama ever needed, and she could use it the way some guys use a blackjack.
• I can't figure him for a cannon. The only thing Pen Pal would ever use is the U.S. Mail... Extortion.

Sue Alabama

• He needed one hand for the money and the other for the gun... He wasn't good enough to handle both.

Others

The Punk: Whose there? You don't want a belly full of daylight!

English Eddie Hagedorn: You have a unique persuasive style, sir. Perhaps a little lacking in finesse, but then, polish isn't everything.

Dialog

Ryan: That'll stop a kitten if you're lucky.

Sue Alabama: It'll stop a tiger if you know how to point it.

Ryan: At least you didn't hit the money.

Sue Alabama: I didn't aim at the money.

Sue Alabama: Give me two hours.

Ryan: Why?

Sue Alabama:For old times' sake.

Ryan: I'll give you one.

Sue Alabama: Okay, one.

Ryan: (Voice Over) I didn't give her an hour, of course... I didn't even giver her 15 minutes... They picked her up at the Union Station with a ticket to Chicago in her bag.

The Punk: You son of a bitch! I'll strangle you with your own guts!

Hammett: People lose teeth talking like that.