This is a great gangster film and should be considered a classic for the dialogue alone. Tom Regan, bursting into a room of scantily clothed showgirls, "Close your eyes, ladies, I'm coming through." Tom Regan going back into the bedroom with Myrna after just conversing with his boss and her lover Leo and Myrna asking what him what he told Leo: "I told him you were a tramp and he should dump you." Tom after being informed that Rug Daniels had just been found dead and without his toupee: "Maybe it was Indians". Tom Regan offers a corrupt cop a drink, the cop being there to bust up a rival's gin joint at Leo's behest and the cop doing nothing but leaning up against a car replies: "Not now Tom, I'm on duty." Johnny Caspar asking Leo for permission to kill Bernie, Leo: "So you want to kill him". The Dane: "For starters."
Tom: "Intimidating helpless women is part of what I do. Myrna: "Then go find one and intimidate her.
Tom Regan was a cold heartless SOB, but his wit and loyalty to his boss, somehow made him a likeable guy in my book. The dialogue in this movie is a notch above anything you usually see in movie these days.
Even the minor characters were unforgettable. Mink, the motormouthed weasel, Frankie (the huge gangster who gets his butt whipped because he is a gentleman and gives Tom a minute to prepare himself and Tom whacks him with a chair), Johnny Caspar's overweight and not too bright son.