The Age of Consent (1932)
Richard Cromwell: Michael
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Quotes
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Dora Swale : [as Mike enters the restaurant where she is a waitress] Hello, pollywog.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Hello, Dora.
[while looking for an empty booth to sit in, he overhears a couple talking loudly]
Unseen Female I : Whaddyou care if they're sharp or not? You can rub your beard off with a towel.
Unseen Male I : Wait'll you start to shave. Alright, alright, what about free love?
Unseen Female I : There's nothing free about MY love, Romeo. Just remember that.
Unseen Male I : You for sale?
Unseen Female I : Let's broaden the conversation.
Unseen Male I : When I get on a subject I like to stay with it. Hey, how about that butter?
[Disgusted with what he's hearing Mike gets up and moves to a different booth]
Unseen Female II : Stop it!
Unseen Male II : [Brays stupidly] I'm gonna find out things for myself. How do I know? Ya may be knock-kneed.
[Brays again]
Unseen Female II : I thoughtcha came to college to develop your brain.
Unseen Male II : Aw, who cares about brains? I come from a long line of people who work with their hands.
[Brays yet again, and we hear a slap]
Unseen Male II : Alright, alright, whaddya wanna talk about?
[Girl giggles incessantly]
Unseen Male II : That's not so funny.
[Mike rolls his eyes and moves a second time]
Dora Swale : Are you working out for the track team or is this a new game?
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : I don't like free love with my meals.
Boy in next booth : Trouble is with you, you're old fashioned.
Girl in next booth : Maybe so, but what was good enough for my grandmother is good enough for me.
[She picks up her purse and starts to leave]
Boy in next booth : Well I don't want to be honorable with you unless it's absolutely necessary.
Girl in next booth : I'll call ya up sometime when I break training.
[laughs and walks out]
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Don't they ever talk about anything else?
Dora Swale : What else is there to talk about? How about somethin' to eat?
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Oh, I don't know what I want.
Dora Swale : Gimme three guesses?
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : People ever talk about marriage any more?
Dora Swale : Some of the older people.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Why don't you get married? What do you hang around a dump like this for?
Dora Swale : Scrambled eggs are nice.
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Michael 'Mike' Harvey : You're a good-lookin' girl.
Dora Swale : Ya think so?
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : You're bright...
Dora Swale : Oh, I get it. Bein' bright don't getcha nowhere--just lookin' dumb. When I first got this job, I usta go home nights and study grammar. I thought it might help me if I talked better. But after goin' out with a couple of these apes around here, I threw the grammar out the window and went in for self-defense.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Well, after all creation didn't stop when they made THESE gorillas. You oughta know some nice fellas that...
Dora Swale : Sure, you mean in my own class.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Oh well, I didn't mean...
Dora Swale : Oh, it's ok. Listen precious, it ain't much fun after workin' hard all day and goin' home nights and just goin' to bed, but it's much better than sittin' around the rest of your life listenin' to some iceman's helper yawnin' himself to sleep.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Yeah, I guess you got life pretty tough at that.
Dora Swale : Oh, I ain't complainin'--not as long as YOU think I'm goodlookin'.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : What's that got to do with it?
Dora Swale : Oh, it just helps me go on.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Don't look at me--I'm gonna be a missionary.
Dora Swale : You'd make a SWELL missionary.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : [not sure if he's been insulted] What do you mean by that?
Dora Swale : Oh, you arouse my savage instincts.
[Mike grins broadly.]
Dora Swale : She hit ya pretty hard, didn't she?
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Whaddya mean?
Dora Swale : How about the chicken patties? We're trying to get rid of them.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Alright, wheel 'em in.
Dora Swale : [shouting] Chicken patties for one!
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Michael 'Mike' Harvey : [checking out Duke's car] It's a new one, isn't it?
Duke Galloway : Oh, just a little trinket that dropped out of Papa's pocket.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Gee, the old one was all right. This one seems more like a hotel.
Duke Galloway : Heh, yeah, only better, you don't have to register.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Is that all you think about?
Duke Galloway : Life, liberty and the pursuit of women.
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Michael 'Mike' Harvey : [sees Betty walking by] Hey.
Betty Cameron : Oh. Hello, Michael.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Well, how's your biology?
Betty Cameron : Well, you may not know it, but cytomorphosis is a protoplasm, but isn't the nucleus.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Think of that.
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Betty Cameron : [Michael stands outside the diner, watching Duke flirt with Betty at Duke's car. Betty sees Michael, smiles] Hello, Michael.
[Michael approaches]
Duke Galloway : *Well*, where've you been? We've been looking all over for you.
Betty Cameron : Still angry, Michael?
Duke Galloway : [teasingly] Michael, have you been angry?
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : I hope you'll pardon the intrusion, but some of the denizens of this eating emporium have recently been nauseated at the spectacle of some of our younger people *necking* in the street.
[Betty looks distressed]
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : So, I've been asked to recommend a more secluded spot... out on the Jericho Turnpike, where... one may indulge in amorous display, minus the intrusion of prying eyes.
[Betty recovers]
Betty Cameron : I'll take the matter up with the board of directors. Pardon me, please.
[turns up the jazzy music playing on the car radio, which drowns out what she says to Duke. She gets into the car with Duke]
Betty Cameron : Now, as I understand it, you go out to the Jericho Turnpike and then...
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : You turn left, and you come to an old apple tree, bearing white blossoms.
[Michael strolls away towards the diner]
Betty Cameron : [to Duke] Jericho Turnpike, turn left, old apple tree...
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : You can't miss it, it's right next to a pig pen.
Duke Galloway : If we see any of your relatives, do we give them a message?
[both laugh]
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Michael 'Mike' Harvey : [trying to eat in the diner, after Betty demands an apology, stands up and throws down his napkin] I came in here to take on a little nourishment, and you insist on making a scene.
Betty Cameron : I'm not making a scene!
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : You *are* making a scene.
Betty Cameron : I'm not making a scene.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : You *are* making a scene.
Betty Cameron : I'm not.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : You *are*,
[looks over his shoulder]
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : you're making a scene right now.
Betty Cameron : I'm here demanding an apology.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Well, you're not gonna get one. Why doncha go away from here...
Betty Cameron : What about my pride?
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : What about your dignity?
Betty Cameron : Never mind my dignity. I'm gonna follow you around till I *do* get an apology.
[Mike again looks over his shoulder]
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Oh, you *are*?
Betty Cameron : Yes I am.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Well, that'll be interesting.
[escapes to the men's room]
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Prof. David Mathews : Maybe I can help you. We had our problems when I went to school, you know.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Yes. But things were different in those days.
Prof. David Mathews : Oh, I don't know. We had the same campus and automobiles. And if I remember correctly we had women also. They are quite a problem, you know.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Yes. But girls are wilder than they were then.
Prof. David Mathews : Yes, I suppose so.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : They can smell a good time three blocks away. If a fellow doesn't happen to be fixed so that he can give them a good time. They find it someplace else.
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Michael 'Mike' Harvey : I don't see why you shouldn't go out with Galloway if you want. You're the only one on campus he's missed.
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Michael 'Mike' Harvey : I have done everything you've asked, haven't I?
Betty Cameron : You haven't kissed me.
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Michael 'Mike' Harvey : It's all a matter of age.
Prof. David Mathews : See here, young man. I'm beginning to dislike that word.
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Michael 'Mike' Harvey : I won't change and I won't let you change. If I have to use every feminine wile that I know about.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Please, darling. There is no telling what might happen.
Betty Cameron : Do you love me?
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Duke Galloway : [to Mike referring to Betty] Well, precious. Here is the body but the soul belongs to me.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : [to Betty] Think you'll ever get over it?
Betty Cameron : I'll never dance with him again unless he wears boxing gloves.
Duke Galloway : Now don't forget that blue number.
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Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Did they hold fraternity dances in your day?
Prof. David Mathews : Yes indeed.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : I don't suppose things have chanced much at that.
Prof. David Mathews : No, not much. Only we used to spark instead of neck.
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Dora Swale : Hello, precious.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : You still here?
Dora Swale : It's only 12 o'clock. I have the rest of the night all to myself.
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Michael 'Mike' Harvey : [drunk & dancing] Turn off the heat, baby. I haven't got fire insurance.
Dora Swale : Neither have I.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : No firm would take it. It is too big a risk.
Dora Swale : What?
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Too big. Too big a risk. The booze sure packs a wallop.
Dora Swale : The old man got it off a fire boat.
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Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Is that day breaking or my head cracking open?
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Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Nothing ever comes true. Nothing at all.
Betty Cameron : I guess it - it doesn't.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Nothing ever comes true.
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Prof. David Mathews : Sorry, Michael.
Michael 'Mike' Harvey : It's alright, Prof. It's just life I guess and I got to go through with it.