The Big Heat (1953)

Jeanette Nolan: Bertha Duncan

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• Bertha Duncan : Did Mr. Stone send you?

  Debby Marsh : No. I've been thinking about you and me, how much alike we are.

  [glances at the expensive furs they're both wearing] 

  Debby Marsh : The mink-coated girls.

  Bertha Duncan : I don't understand you. What are you here for, Miss Marsh?

  Debby Marsh : Debby. We should use first names, Bertha. We're sisters under the mink.

• Dave Bannion : [having figured out Bertha's blackmail scheme]  Our city is being strangled by a gang of thieves, and you protect Lagana and Stone for the sake of a soft, plush life.

  Bertha Duncan : The coming years are going to be just fine, Mr. Bannion.

  Dave Bannion : There aren't going to be any... "coming years" for you. None at all.