“Any other actor might play it and maybe get away with it, but I look like that kind of a guy. There’d be just one thing for the public to think: ‘George Raft, himself, is like Trigger.’ Listen, do you know what I would have had to do in that picture? First I had to kill a feeble-minded boy. And then I had to rape a girl—in a corn crib, see. Then I take her to a sporting house. That’s the part they asked me to play. That’s the part I refused to play.”
