Odd Man Out Quotes

  • Inspector: In my profession there is neither good nor bad. There is innocence and guilt. That's all.

  • Inspector: I'm sorry, Father, but it's my duty to bring this man to justice.

    Father Tom: That's the duty of all of us.

  • Lukey: [about painting a portrait of the wounded Johnny McQueen] There's something to be said about him before he dies.

    Tober: And about all of us.

    Lukey: I understand what I see in him.

    Tober: What is it?

    Lukey: It's the truth about us all.

    Tober: Is that all?

    Lukey: He's doomed.

    Tober: So are we all.

  • Shell: Is he really dying, Tober?

    Tober: We're all dying.

  • Shell: [asking about faith] What is it, Tober?

    Tober: It's life.

  • [the police are searching Grannie's home for evidence]

    Grannie: Give 'em to me. Them's my sweets!

  • Johnny McQueen: I remember. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I understood as a child. But when I became a man, I put way childish things. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become a sounding brass or a inkling cymbal. Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though I have all faiths so that I could remove mountains and have not charity... I am nothing.

  • [the police are closing in on Johnny and Kathleen]

    Johnny McQueen: Kathleen, where are you?

    Kathleen Sullivan: It's all right, Johnny. I'm here.

    Kathleen Sullivan: Is it far?

    Johnny McQueen: It's a long way, Johnny, but I'm coming with you. We're going away together.

    [Kathleen pulls a small pistol from her pocket and fires a couple of random shots. The police respond with a hail of gunfire]

  • [last lines]

    Policeman in final scene: There's their gun, sir.

    Inspector: [softly, after examining Kathleen's tiny revolver] Two shots fired.

    Policeman in final scene: Yes sir. That's when we had to fire back.

    [the ship that was to have carried Johnny and Kathleen to safety blasts its horn mournfully as the clock strikes twelve midnight]

Extended Reading
  • Jermain 2022-04-20 09:02:55

    The photography is very strong and the lens is amazing. The story is a bit gritty, the male protagonist lacks initiative, and the rest are revolving around his actions that have long been stagnant. A fugitive half-dead at heart, walking through snowy London.

  • Archibald 2022-04-07 09:01:08

    Odd man out, the misfit, refers to every character in the film, even the sheriff has a bit. Ukiyo-e with small size and big ambition. There are certain barriers to understanding the religious elements in the second half.