Free and Easy (1931)
Edgar Bergen: Professor
Photos
Quotes
-
Cecil, a hobo : Are you going swimming now?
Charlie McCarthy : Yes.
Professor : Oh, yes. Yes. You see, we want to avoid the cop who chased us off yesterday.
Charlie McCarthy : Yeah.
Professor : He told us we weren't allowed to swim in the reservoir because the city used it for drinking water.
Charlie McCarthy : Well, they can't drink all of it. Can they?
Professor : No.
Cecil, a hobo : A bunch of high-tone cranks.
Charlie McCarthy : Yeah. Well, just so they leave enough for us to bathe in.
-
[first lines]
Sylvester, a hobo : Hey professor, whatd'ya say to a game of auction bridge?
Professor : No, count me out Sylvester. I'm going to take a swim down at the city reservoir.
Charlie McCarthy : Yeah, me too. I'm going to do my standing, sitting, squatting swan dive.
-
Cecil, a hobo : I hear the stocks dropped three points today.
Professor : You don't say? Isn't that too bad. Are we lucky fellas? Ah, this is the life! This is the life that gets you.
Charlie McCarthy : Yeah. Yeah, but, it gets you nowhere.
-
Professor : [referring to the fire that they're laying next to] You know, looking at the glowing embers is like gazing at a crystal; all sorts of weird images parade before my eyes.
Charlie McCarthy : Uh huh.
[obviously hungry]
Charlie McCarthy : You don't see any hot dogs, do you?
Professor : No, no.
-
Professor : [while seeing a gypsy] Shh, sh-she's going into a trance; many strange things may appear before our eyes.
Charlie McCarthy : [obviously hungry] Yeah, no chance of a small steak showing up?
Professor : No.
-
Professor : What's the matter?
Charlie McCarthy : [after having just seen a spirit] Oh, uh, did you see it?
Professor : No. Shh, I'm seeing things here.
[gazing at the gypsy's crystal ball]
Charlie McCarthy : Uh, 'you're' seeing things?
Professor : Yes.
Charlie McCarthy : You ain't seen nothing yet. I think Herbie's here.
Professor : Well you talk to him, I'm mad at him.
Charlie McCarthy : I don't want to pick a bone with him.
Kamisha, the Gypsy : Ah, we have a spirit here.
Charlie McCarthy : You're telling me?
Professor : Is it brother Herbie?
Charlie McCarthy : Well if it is, he's been on a diet.
[seeing as the spirit resembled a skeleton]
-
[last lines]
Charlie McCarthy : [riding in a train boxcar with the other hobos as they sing] Well well, cheer up professor. We've been chased out of better towns than this.
Professor : Heh, I suppose so. Well eh, where to now Mr. McCarthy?
Charlie McCarthy : Let me see... shall it be uh, The Royal Poinciana at uh, Palm Beach? Or uh, Sloppy Joe's, huh?
Professor : Heh, yes.
Charlie McCarthy : Hyahaha. Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my.
[the scene fades out as a scribbled note on the side of the boxcar reads 'Charlie McCarthy going south']