The Big Shakedown (1934)
Charles Farrell: Jimmy Morrell
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Quotes
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Mae LaRue : [Bursting in on Dutch and Lil in Dutch's office] I told you he was in!
[Sizing up the situation]
Mae LaRue : Hello, lover.
Dutch Barnes : [Straightening his tie nervously] Hello, Mae.
Lily 'Lil' Duran : Hello Mae? You bet he's in; he's in my hair.
[turning to Dutch]
Lily 'Lil' Duran : Why you double-crossing, two-timing slug. So that's why you want to send me to Europe, huh?
Dutch Barnes : Now wait a minute, honey, wait a minute.
Lily 'Lil' Duran : Oh, wait a minute - breezin' me off so you can play post office with this queen. What gutter'dja pick her out of?
Mae LaRue : [Doing a Mae West hand-on-hip hair fluff] I don't believe I know you.
Lily 'Lil' Duran : [Kicking her in the rump] Well how's this for an introduction?
Mae LaRue : Why I'll knock your head off and throw it right in...
[They start to wrestle]
Lily 'Lil' Duran : You and what army?
[They continue fighting and hair-pulling and yelling at each other. After thirty seconds or so, Dutch intervenes]
Dutch Barnes : [Pushing the women apart] Now listen, you two dames. What's the matter with ya?
Lefty : [to Slim] Get Jimmy.
[Lefty and Dutch go into the next room and close the door]
Dutch Barnes : [to Lefty] *There's* a couplea phone numbers for the ashcan!
Lefty : Maybe we'd better go in for nail files.
[as a next line of business]
Dutch Barnes : Shut up. Where's Jimmy?
Lefty : Slim's sending him in.
Jimmy Morrell : [Entering] Mr. Barnes, what's happened?
Dutch Barnes : My tomatoes blew up.
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Norma Nelson : Well, the Depression's over.
Jimmy Morrell : Yeah?
Norma Nelson : I just made a 15 cent sale.
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Jimmy Morrell : But, I can't make Pearly Dent toothpaste. That wouldn't be honest.
Dutch Barnes : All you have to do is make the stuff and keep your mouth shut. We'll do the rest.
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Jimmy Morrell : How are you, honey?
Norma Nelson : It's a wonder you wouldn't come around and see me sometime.
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Jimmy Morrell : Of course I knew it was wrong, but, well, when you get mixed up with racketeers, Mr. Sheffner, it isn't easy to quit.
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Dutch Barnes : Jimmy, how would you like a little bonus, huh?
Jimmy Morrell : Bonus?
Dutch Barnes : A grand. A thousand bucks. You're a swell kid. I want to help you. I want to help you get somewhere. But, you've got to play ball with me.
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Jimmy Morrell : Oh, if I had more nerve, I'd...
Dutch Barnes : Not more nerve, less gab.
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Jimmy Morrell : I'm gonna take what's comin' to me and you're gonna *get* what's comin' to you.
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Dutch Barnes : When I want to know anything, I'll ask you. In the meantime, you make the stuff the best way you can. And remember what I told you. I takin' no squawks.
Jimmy Morrell : This is no squawk. I won't do it!
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[last lines]
Jimmy Morrell : That's what we're here for: To give people what they want. Credit, gossip, stamps... medical advice, slugs for the telephone. We're gonna be just a neighborhood drugstore again. I don't know. I may never be a success - but I'll never be a sap again.
Norma Nelson : Never?
Jimmy Morrell : Well, hardly ever.
[kiss]
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Jimmy Morrell : Black snakes aren't poisonous.
Boy Buying Ice Cream : Black snakes ain't poisonoua? Listen - if a black snake can make you jump off a fifty-foot cliff, it don't have to be.
