The St. Louis Kid (1934)
James Cagney: Eddie Kennedy
Quotes
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Ann Reid : You stupid numbskull, did you ever hear of sticking out your hand for a stop?
Eddie Kennedy : What're you trying to do, steal some gas out of our tank?
Ann Reid : Is that supposed to be funny?
Eddie Kennedy : Now look here sister...
Ann Reid : Don't sister me, if I was your sister I'd shoot myself.
Eddie Kennedy : Not a bad idea!
Ann Reid : You insolent...
[CRACK! - slaps Eddie across the face, hard!]
Buck : Hey! You can't do that to my pal!
[CRACK! - slaps Buck even harder, she must be a lefty!]
Eddie Kennedy : Hahahahaha!
[CRACK! - one more on Eddie for good measure!]
Eddie Kennedy : Oh, so you're one of those smacking dames are ya? Now come on, back that tin can off our truck! C'mon! Get out!
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Buck : [after reading aloud from a book in a dull monotone] Hey, what's this all about? It don't make sense.
Eddie Kennedy : It don't make sense the way you read it, you split-skull. It's all about the country, about the chickens and the cows, the people are happy and contented.
Buck : You really think the cows are contented?
Eddie Kennedy : Why shouldn't they be? They don't have to drive a truck for a living.
Buck : Yeahh, that's right, they don't.
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Messeldopp : [upon taking Eddie in the jail cell] Mr. Richardson, this is Mr. Kennedy. Richardson's a horse doctor from Moline
Eddie Kennedy : How are you?
[shakes his hand]
Richardson : I'll bet it was a woman got you into this!
Eddie Kennedy : Yeah - a woman had something to do with it. Why?
Richardson : I knew it! They're the scourge of the earth.
Eddie Kennedy : Oh. One of them put the bite on you?
Richardson : Women - tyrants, destroying the freedom of mankind.
Messeldopp : He's in for alimony.
Eddie Kennedy : Yeah - I got that.
Richardson : Why should I support a wife weighing 200 pounds? Have you any idea how much she eats?
Eddie Kennedy : No, I never met the lady.
Richardson : Ohh, it was a sad day when I asked her to be my wife.
Eddie Kennedy : Why'd ya do it?
Richardson : Well, she runs a boarding house and... I was behind with my bill.
Eddie Kennedy : Ah - real, real love.
[laughs]
Eddie Kennedy : That's what I like to see.
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Buck : [after drinking a big glass of milk] Ahh. Not bad. They say milk is full of that alphabet stuff.
Eddie Kennedy : What do you mean, "alphabet"?
Buck : You know - A-B-C-D... vi-ta-mines. It gives ya strength.