Peter Virgil Quotes in Romance on the High Seas (1948)

Peter Virgil: There's something I just gotta do, I cant help myself.

Georgia Garrett: Well if you cant help yourself, you can't help yourself.

Peter Virgil: I gotta find the cable-gram.

Peter Virgil: Run, run, run... When you see a pretty woman.

Michael Kent: Are you a good detective?

Peter Virgil: Naturally, why?

Michael Kent: Where did you do your traning?

Peter Virgil: In the army. Intelligence G2.

Michael Kent: Well how are you at the job?

Peter Virgil: We won the war didn't we?

Michael Kent: My wife is leaving day after tomorrow on a South American cruise and, well, she insists on going without me.

Peter Virgil: Hm. And to a man of your suspicious nature that means only one thing: Another man on the boat.

Michael Kent: Well, you see, I don't know, but that's what I want you to find out.

Peter Virgil: Well, you've come to the right man. I have handled so many of these cases.

[phone rings]

Peter Virgil: Excuse me.

[picks up phone]

Peter Virgil: Hello?...Oh yes, how are you?...Well, certainly I shadowed your wife. I hate to tell you this, but you were right, she's been two-timing you.

[we hear a thud on the other end of the line]

Peter Virgil: Hello? Hello?

[aside to Mr. Kent]

Peter Virgil: He fainted.

[hangs up phone]

Peter Virgil: Sometimes there's a shot. Now where were we?

Michael Kent: Well, Mr. Virgil, I want you to get on the same boat with my wife and shadow her.

Peter Virgil: Hey now, wait a minute! That means I'll have to leave all of my business!

Michael Kent: I'll make it up to you.

Peter Virgil: Well, I can tell you right now without batting an eyelash it'll cost you $1000 a week.

Michael Kent: Well, that's a little steep, isn't it, old boy?

Peter Virgil: Yes, yes it is, but, uh, I'll probably get seasick.

Michael Kent: Well, all right, all right, I'll book your passage.

Peter Virgil: Hm. Now, uh, move your chair a little closer, will you? There's a little confidential information I must have.

[phone rings]

Peter Virgil: Excuse me.

[picks up phone]

Peter Virgil: Hello?

[we hear a gunshot on the other end of the line]

Peter Virgil: Well, whaddya know? He didn't even wait for me to tell him!