Full of great lines
"Whaddaya want me to do? Knock?!"
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Mrs. Gray, The Landlady - 'We thought you were dead'.
Eddie Bartlett - 'If I am they forgot to bury me'.
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'He came into this with his eyes open and he's going to leave with his eyes open. Except this time with pennies over 'em. Alright, beat it. Scram.'
Love that line from Bogie.
One thing you could always expect from a high quality gangster movie from the 30's and 40's is great dialogue.
'Cause I'm Black you think I did it?
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Panama Smith: "He used to be a big shot."
share Landlady: This letter just came...3 cents postage due.
Eddie: Just add it to my bill.
Landlady: Don't think I won't!
Eddie: Don't you think I think you won't!
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
After getting turned down for a date every day of the week by Jean, Eddie says
"mind if I drive by and blow the horn?"
Bogie: Far be it from me to start any trouble but I'll lay you eight to five right now that kid's gonna move in on your gal.
"Two more swords and I'll be Queen of the Monkey People." Roseanne
I also love the way Bogie's jaw muscles twitch as he delivers these lines.
shareOne thing you could always expect from a high quality gangster movie from the 30's and 40's is great dialogue.
Especially if it was a Warner Brothers gangster flick! WB OWNED the genre!
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They were all beauties and it is still unbeatable....WOW!
shareI love the line when Bogie's character calls up Nick Brown to tip him off that Eddie (Cagney) is on his way over to seek revenge. Brown then asks who it is that is calling him, and Bogart replies that, "It's your Aunt Sadie from Jersey City. What'a care who dis is?"
shareBogie as 'George': "I always say, when you got a job to do, get somebody else to do it."
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Cagney ,remarking on a threat made by Nick Brown (Paul Kelly):
"He makes a lot of noise with his mouth when he eats spaghetti, too."
He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good... St. Matthew 5:45
And a great line from Nick Brown: "Scram, sisters, spaghetti ain't good for you. It puts fat on the wrong places".
shareHow about when Cagney and Bogey rob the the warehouse, and Bogey recognizes, the guard,
"Well if it ain't our old sergeant!"
Or after George kills his old sergeant, Eddie says something like, "They give you the chair for that." And George replies, "And you'll be sitting on my lap.
I wanna buy your carbon offsets.
I can't believe everyone forgot my favorite, from the beginning...
When that one guy hesitates to shoot from the trenches and Bogie asks him why, he says something like, "It's just a kid...about 15 years old". Without hesitation Bogie sights in and fires, "Well, he won't be 16."
That line cracked me up.
share"It's just a kid...about 15 years old". Without hesitation Bogie sights in and fires, "Well, he won't be 16."
Laughed so hard at that! Best line in the movie by far! Loved it so much I told it to my coworker the next day. I knew the second I heard it it was going to go on to be one of those movie lines I trot out at every possible opportunity.
Peter, is your social worker in that horse?
"So ya thought I'd yell, copper, huh? Well I never did that in my life and I never will!"
cinefreak
When Cagney first comes back from the war, Frank McHugh asks him him if he learned to parlez vous. Cagney smiles knowingly and answers, "Just enough." Another subtle way to evade the Production Code.
shareI believe Bogie also coined an extremely UNaffectionate name for Warner Brothers, as well. That of "SING-SING WEST"!
JS
Yes, "Parlez Vous", "Just Enough" dialog was a very clever way around the Production Codes.
Another, non-verbal, scene slips around the Production Code: when Danny places the German helmet under the bed open side down, Cagney checks it and motions him to turn it open-side up. It can now serve as a chamber pot!
"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?"
I'm pretty sure he has Danny turn it open side down after he sees him placing it open side up......to *avoid* use as a chamber pot.
Roaring Twenties style dialog/post - "One of us is right and one of us is wrong, see? And the wrong guy is the dead guy, see?" :)
"Get them up, George! So you thought I'd yell copper, huh? I never did that in my life and I never will. If I want anything done, I do it myself!"
cinefreak
I can hear Cagney saying it now!
Bogart - something like - "Sure, Eddie sure! You always was a right guy. We'll go back in the cab business...."
And as he is about to be shot - "Crazy.....Eddie....crazy"!
I can hear Cagney saying it now!
Bogart - something like - "Sure, Eddie sure! You always was a right guy. We'll go back in the cab business...."
And as he is about to be shot - "Crazy.....Eddie....crazy"!
Yup! That's the one! Those guys knew how to generate excitement!
cinefreak
One of the best films ever!
Bogart to Jeffery Lynn - "Listen, Harvard. You came into this racket with your eyes open and if you tell any of it, you'll go out with your eyes open, only this time they'll have pennies on them. OK. Now get out of here. Go peddle your papers (or something.)
M<y posts on the film go back quite a ways on IMDB here.
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I think you are reading too much into it, honestly.
"There's ten thousand shell holes around here, and everyone has to come diving into this one."--Bogart used a similar line a few years later in Casablanca: "Of all the gin joints...." Small world.
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
Hewwo.
When Eddie's getting arrested for dropping off the bottle of booze in Panama's place, she says to the cop:
Panama: This guy's on the up an up. He's no bootlegger. I never saw him before.
Cop: You see him this time. That's enough.
Then Panama says to Eddie:
Panama: Hey buster, who do you know?
Eddie: I know a lawyer.
Panama: It would be better if you knew a judge.
Panama Smith to bar owner telling her to sing: "Get yourself a phonograph, jughead, I'm with him"
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