The Detective (1954)

Launce Maraschal: Texan Millionaire

Quotes 

• Texan Millionaire : [the Texan approaches Father Brown and Lady Warren as they attempt to spot Flambeau among the bidders]  Lady Warren? I am Sam Johnson out of San Antonio, Texas. If isn't often we from Texas get a chance to shake a real, live lady by the hand now!

  Lady Warren : It isn't often that we in London have the privilege of of meeting a real, live Texan.

  Texan Millionaire : You sure talk like a lady. You know, I've come five thousand miles to buy this set of yours. It'll go well down on my ranch.

  Lady Warren : Will it really?

  Texan Millionaire : Yeah ma'am. I've got myself a real swell games room. Solid gold poker chips, solid gold checkers, and a solid gold ping pong table.

  Lady Warren : With solid gold ping pong balls?

  Texan Millionaire : No ma'am. They wouldn't bounce. Well, better get set to rope this steer.

  [He goes to his seat] 

  Lady Warren : I feared for a moment he was going to take my hand back to Texas with him, even though it isn't made of gold.

  Father Brown : I doubt if even Flambeau could have invented him.

• Auctioneer : Now, who will open the bidding for me at ten thousand pounds?

  Texan Millionaire : Fifty thousand dollars.

  Auctioneer : I am bid... seventeen thousand, eight hundred and fifty-seven pounds, two shillings and ten pence. I think it would be easier, sir, if we were to conduct the bidding in pounds sterling.