Whispering Smith (TV Series)

Double Edge (1961)

Audie Murphy: Tom 'Whispering' Smith

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Whispering Smith : [narrating]  When you're hunting a hold-up gang, the roadway to a deserted old house sometimes looks inviting - sometimes.

  [Smith hears a shot and sees a man crash through an upstairs window and fall to the ground below] 

• Whispering Smith : [narrating]  I had heard the scream - I was sure of that. There was no sign of the screamer... none at all.

• John Richards : Just disappeared, Smith.

  Whispering Smith : Just disappeared, Chief.

  John Richards : Just disappeared, George.

  George Romack : That's what the man said, Chief. I heard him.

  Whispering Smith : All right, you two, but I'm telling you I saw it - the body of Frank Molloy.

• John Richards : Do you know what she could do if we couldn't produce a body? She could go to the mayor and the city counselmen. We'd all be out on the street.

  Whispering Smith : Chief, I swear I saw him.

  John Richards : Will you stop saying that! I don't care what you think you saw... but I'll tell you what you'd better see. You'd better see Frank Molloy - alive or dead - and you better bring him back here so I can see him! Understand?

• Whispering Smith : You know that scream I heard?

  George Romack : Yeah.

  Whispering Smith : It came at least 30 seconds after the shot.

  George Romack : So?

  Whispering Smith : It was a fake to get me into the house so they could get rid of that body.

  George Romack : You know somethin' else, Smitty? That scream you heard ain't nothin' to the one Richards' gonna let out when we come back without Molloy.

• Peggy Casson : Is this an official visit?

  Whispering Smith : Nooo, I'd like to think of it as a friendly little visit.

  Peggy Casson : What's on your mind, *friend*.

• [referring to Frank Molloy] 

  Whispering Smith : There's been talk you've been holding his hand.

  Peggy Casson : Talk's wrong. I've just been listening to his troubles. You know me, Smitty, as long as a man can buy, I can listen.

  Whispering Smith : Tell you anything interesting?

  Whispering Smith : Hmm, mostly that the Arabs are right.

  Whispering Smith : The Arabs?

  Peggy Casson : Mm-hmm. An Arab prizes his horse first, his wife second and never trusts a friend.

• Whispering Smith : I'd like to try something.

  John Richards : Is it legal?

  Whispering Smith : I'll nail Molloy's killer so no jury will ever turn him loose.

  John Richards : Well, I'll take that for "yes".

• Whispering Smith : Well, what you brought you two out here? I wouldn't worry about Monty and Pete - they're well taken care of. Well?

  Jim Conley : All right, so we're in love. Any law against that?

  Whispering Smith : No, there isn't. But there's a law against murdering a husband who finds out about it.