Morocco (1930)

Paul Porcasi: Lo Tinto

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Quotes 

• Lo Tinto, Nightclub Owner : Sing your number once and then sell the apples. That's the most important thing. Sell the apples! 10 % is yours, 90 % is mine. You'll make a fortune!

• Lo Tinto, Nightclub Owner : Don't waste your time down there. There's no money in the pit!

  Amy Jolly : Isn't there?

  [proceeds to the pit] 

• La Bessiere : What's wrong, Lo Tinto?

  Lo Tinto, Nightclub Owner : What's wrong? She's been drinking like a fish. And don't send her anymore flowers in pots! She threw the last one at me an hour ago!

• Lo Tinto, Nightclub Owner : [At the nightclub, to the newly arrived Amy Jolly]  Now, you may have heard of me, or not. My house is patronized by the finest society in Morocco... Now, what was I going to say?... Oh, yes: Pick yourself a protector. It will give you prestige. An officer in the Legion. They will tell you that the officers in the Legion are unimportant, that the common Legionnaire is the thing. They will tell you that Private so-and-so is a Russian prince or an ex-general, that he joined the Legion to forget his past. Don't believe it! The Private is a 'nobody' at 75 centimes per day... Pick the officers - THEY have the money!