Background to Danger (1943)

Peter Lorre: Nikolai Zaleshoff

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• Nikolai Zaleshoff : How did you know the gun wasn't loaded?

  Joe Barton : By its weight.

  Nikolai Zaleshoff : There might have been one bullet in it.

  Joe Barton : That's the chance I had to take.

  Nikolai Zaleshoff : YOU had to take?

• Nikolai Zaleshoff : [Petulantly]  I want some vodka! I WANT SOME VODKA!

• Nikolai Zaleshoff : Oh, you Americans, always in a hurry, hurry, business, business!

• Nikolai Zaleshoff : [to Joe]  You're a marked man. You're wanted for murder.