The Big Shakedown (1934)

Allen Jenkins: Lefty

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Quotes 

• Lefty : Listen, Sweetheart, get smart.

• Lefty : What's eatin' the kid?

  Dutch Barnes : Thinks he's gonna quit.

  Lefty : What do you think?

  Dutch Barnes : I think he ain't.

• Dutch Barnes : Lefty, what's our racket?

  Lefty : Beer!

  Dutch Barnes : Beer, huh, you're five minutes late. We're going in the drug business.

  Lefty : Not me. I got a brother doing twenty years for going into the drug racket and all they found on him was two decks of coke.

• 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.

• Lefty : Give me a bottle of Hercules beer.

  Norma Nelson : No can do. I can give you Blue Seal or Nightclub.

  Lefty : I want Hercules.

  Norma Nelson : Well, I want a seal skin coat too, but I can't have it.

• Mae LaRue : I got tossed out on my ear.

  Lefty : Your ear?

  Mae LaRue : Well, maybe it wasn't my ear. I was just trying to be a lady.

• Slim : Hey, Lefty, why do you keep going out with that dame?

  Lefty : Because I liked her.

  Slim : Liked her what?