Manpower (1941)

George Raft: Johnny Marshall

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• Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : [Last Lines]  Did anyone yell headache when I was coming down?

  Johnny Marshall : Sure.

  Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : I'm glad nobody got hurt.

  [Hank dies] 

• Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : You know, I can't figure it. I like the dames, but they don't go for me. I'm strictly a cold wire in that department.

  Johnny Marshall : For every guy in this world, there's a dame. You just gotta wait.

  Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : Yeah, I'm waitin'. Only I want to whisper "I love you" with my own teeth!

• Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : Johnny, what are you doing for supper tonight?

  Johnny Marshall : Oh, nothing exciting.

  Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : Well, come on home with me.

  Johnny Marshall : Nah, it's getting to be a habit.

  Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : What's the matter? Don't you like the food?

  Johnny Marshall : Oh sure, I like it. But if I show up at your house this week for another meal, Fay'll wind up calling the cops. And after all, you're practically still on your honeymoon.

  Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : I'm only asking you for supper.

• Johnny Marshall : [the phone rings]  I'll get it. Oh, if it's that blonde, are you in or out?

  Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : Well if it's her, I'm in and ready to go out!

• Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : You know, I can't figure it. I like the dames, but they don't go for me. I'm strictly a cold wire in that department.

  Johnny Marshall : For every guy in this world, there's a dame. You just gotta wait.

  Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : Yeah, I'm waitin'. Only I want to whisper 'I love you' with my own teeth!

• Johnny Marshall : They'll be other nights, Baby.

  Polly : Not for me, there won't. Not with that jerk of all trades!

  Johnny Marshall : What's wrong with you, Sister?

  Polly : He's worn a path right up my ankles.

• Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : I still can't understand why I had to throttle that dame to make her kiss me.

  Johnny Marshall : It's the way you move in. You're with a dame two minutes and she wants to bat your brains out.

  Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : Well, I wouldn't say that. I know plenty of dames who went completely daffy over me.

  Johnny Marshall : Oh, who are you kidding. Every time I've seen you up at bat, you strike out. But, you mug, even if the dames don't love you, I do.

  Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : Yeah? What's that gonna get me?

• Jumbo Wells : As I was tellin' ya, that dame was so thin that every time she took a drink of tomato juice, she looked like a thermometer.

  Eddie Adams : I like a dame that's built like a hot water bottle.

  Omaha : I wish I was home with a good book and a brunette.

  Johnny Marshall : Don't kid us, you can't read.

  Omaha : That's what I say.

  Jumbo Wells : No brunettes for me. I'm strictly a blonde-of-the-month club man.

• Pop Duval : Kid me if you want to, but those wires, I felt them, you haven't! They're as treacherous as a snake. You'll find out like I did.

  Johnny Marshall : Forget it Pop. The worst thing that could happen is that they send you home in a box. And everybody rates that, sooner or later.

  Eddie Adams : I'll take later.

  Jumbo Wells : Yeah, much later.

• Johnny Marshall : When is the doc checkin' you out?

  Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : Oh, in about a week. Yeah, but this leg will never be right. I got to settle down on the ground like a squirrel with the gout.

• Pop Duval : How's Hank?

  Johnny Marshall : He's doin' fine.

  Pop Duval : Did you tell him how I can't stand to go in a hospital?

  Johnny Marshall : He knows it. He don't like it himself.

• Johnny Marshall : Your daughter wound up gettin' pinched in a Frisco gin joint for clippin' a sucker's wallet. That wasn't your fault.

  Pop Duval : It wasn't her fault either. She was innocent.

  Johnny Marshall : Yeah. Yeah, you told me.

• Fay Duval : Have you got a cigarette? I bet I look like something that came in with the tide. I sure could use some powder and lipstick.

  Johnny Marshall : Sorry, I left mine at home.

• Drug Store Clerk : What can I do for you, sir?

  Johnny Marshall : I want a lipstick. You heard me.

  Drug Store Clerk : Yes, sir. Eh, what shade?

  Johnny Marshall : Any color, as long as it's red.

• Johnny Marshall : It's a good thing that stuff ain't fattening.

  Fay Duval : I could use a couple of pounds. The rest cure didn't do my figure any good.

  Drug Store Clerk : It didn't do it any harm.

  Johnny Marshall : Go on, jerk yourself a soda.

• Fay Duval : [props her leg up]  Say, doc, you got something to take out a spot?

  Drug Store Clerk : Oh, yes, ma'am. We always keep it handy.

  [walks over with the spot remover and rubs an area of Fay's dress above her propped up knee] 

  Fay Duval : How's the view from your angle?

  Johnny Marshall : I've seen as good.

  Drug Store Clerk : There! Any other spots?

  Fay Duval : No, what do you think I am? A leopard?

  Drug Store Clerk : Oh there's one.

  [touches Fay's bottom and Fay slaps away his hand] 

  Fay Duval : I'll handle that one.

• Johnny Marshall : What are you gonna do in LA?

  Fay Duval : Oh, I'll get by, one way or the other.

  Johnny Marshall : Why don't you try the other way for a change.

  Fay Duval : Because there's too many guys like you - crawling around.

• Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : Say, how does this dame stack up?

  Johnny Marshall : Oh, just a dame.

• Johnny Marshall : Why do you even waste your time with a dame like that?

  Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : Oh, she seems all right, Johnny. You didn't give her a chance. I feel sorry for the filly. I wonder how she's fixed for dough?

• Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : What's the difference between a robe and a negligee?

  Johnny Marshall : A robe covers you up.

  Jumbo Wells : Well then, let's look at the negligees.

  Mrs. Calkin - Saleslady : You gentlemen will be seated. I'll have some very nice items modeled for you.

  Jumbo Wells : Johnny, what about the underwear?

• Johnny Marshall : Let's get this over with and beat it. I don't know what I'm doin' in here anyway.

• Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : Hi ya, squirrels! What's cookin'?

  Eddie Adams : Ah, some dame down in Santa Monica got a washing machine on the fritz.

  Jumbo Wells : Ah, tell her not to worry. I'll go down and wash her.

  Johnny Marshall : Why don't you try it on yourself?

• Fay Duval : What makes you think I couldn't level with the guy?

  Johnny Marshall : You couldn't even level with yourself. You got that clip joint in your blood and you'll never lose it.

• Fay Duval : All right, go on. Hit me again if that makes you feel any better. I've been hit before and harder.

  Johnny Marshall : That wasn't anything the way you're gonna be smacked if I ever catch you out of line again.

• Fay Duval : For a change, I'm going to do what I want to.

  Johnny Marshall : I'm not asking what you're going to do, sister. I'm telling you!

• Johnny Marshall : [the phone rings]  I'll get it. Oh, if it's that blonde, are you in or out?

  Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry : Well, if it's her, I'm in and ready to go out!