Love on the Run (1936)

Franchot Tone: Barnabus Pells

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• Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Woman, thy name is screwball!

• Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : You could've been sitting in the theater the night Lincoln was shot and you wouldn't have covered me.

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : I'd have told you, I swear.

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Oh, yeah, you'd have told me Lincoln shot Booth.

• Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Knock knock.

  Sally Parker : Who's there?

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Machiavelli.

  Sally Parker : Machiavelli who?

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Machiavelli good suit for ten dollar.

• Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : I'm stickin' like summer underwear.

• Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Baby, you call the shots and I'll pull the trigger.

• Sally Parker : Now stop it, Barney. Poor Michael.

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Woman, thy name is screwball.

• Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : [Barney is tied to a chair, lying on the floor and talking to his copy desk on the phone. As Mike and Sally untie the knots, he spells Mike's name, to share the by-line, into the phone]  M for maniac.

  Sally Parker : I for I love you, darling.

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : I for I love you darling. C for crackpot.

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : H for how soon are we going to get married?

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : H for how soon are we going to get mar... No, I'm not drunk.

  Sally Parker : A for any time you say.

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : A for any time you say. Aw, shut up!

• Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Now, those are things that cut deeply.

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : I'll try to think of some more of them.

• Michael 'Mike' Anthony : You doubt me, Mr. Pells?

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Naw, I don't doubt you. I just think you're lying.

• Baron Otto : No, Mr. Pells, don't go, don't go.

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Okay, baron. Okay.

  Baron Otto : I just to explain my whole purpose in this flight. Where we go, and how we go, and why we go.

• Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : I believe you, Anthony. You hope.

• Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Miss Parker, I'm no mere reporter. I'm the best correspondent in Europe.

  Sally Parker : You write good stories?

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : The best. All the news that's fit to print.

  Sally Parker : I don't want that kind. You can print anything about me.

• Sally Parker : Can he do anything else?

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Nothing that won't land him in jail.

• Lieutenant of Police : Mr. Pells, these are necessary police details. We must not leave a stone unturned.

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : How many people did you ever find under stones?

• Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Even a humming bird will turn and become a vicious monster if given sufficient provocation, Mr. Anthony.

• Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : I want you to know you're persuading me, but you haven't convinced me.