Quotes

Tarzan's Desert Mystery

Boy: [reading Jane's letter] My darlings, I can't begin to tell you how much I miss you both, and how happy I will be when this horrible war is over and I can come home to you again.
Tarzan: Tarzan happy too.
Boy: [continues reading] Many of the soldiers in the hospital where I am working have just been brought home from Burma. And in addition to their wounds are suffering from jungle fever. Would be wonderful if you could send me some of the fever medicine which cured Boy when he was so ill, for I'm certain that it would help our soldiers, too. You'd do this for me, won't you Tarzan?
Tarzan: Tarzan get. Read more.
[Boy scans letter to find instructions from Jane to not allow Boy to go with Tarzan into the desert]
Tarzan: Read more! Boy, read more!
Boy: Now, let's see. Where was I? Just a... just a... Oh! Here I am!
[crosses fingers behind his back]
Boy: Because the trip will take several days, you must not think of leaving Boy and Cheeta this time. The great desert will be very educational for them.
Tarzan: Jane say Tarzan take Boy?
Boy: That's right, Tarzan.

Boy: Well Tarzan, what are we waiting for?
Tarzan: Boy and Cheeta go back to escarpment now.
Boy: Aw Tarzan, be a sport. We wanna help you get the fever medicine.
Tarzan: Jane asks Tarzan to get fever medicine. Boy stay home.
Boy: Well Tarzan, I don't remember reading anything like that in Jane's letter.
Tarzan: Then Boy read letter again.
[hands letter to Boy]
Boy: Well, let's see.
[pretends to read]
Boy: Of course you must not think of leaving Boy and Cheeta this time. The great desert will be very educational for them.
Tarzan: Boy read letter like Jane say?
Boy: Certainly, Tarzan. Just like Jane say.
Tarzan: Why Boy lie?
Boy: I had my fingers crossed!
[sees that Tarzan is not amused]
Boy: It's lonesome on the escarpment without you, Tarzan.
[Tarzan is still not moved]
Boy: Alright. Come Cheeta! Goodbye Tarzan. Hurry home!
[starts to walk away]
Tarzan: Boy wait! Tarzan take!

Boy: [to Connie] You oughta see our house in the jungle. It's really peaceful.
Tarzan: Boy wish he were home, eh?
Boy: Well, uh... Why don't you come and live with us, Connie?
Connie Bryce: Oh! Listen, you better not tempt me.
[Cheeta dances for joy]
Boy: Cheeta says yes. What do you say, Tarzan?
Tarzan: Connie used to big cities. Connie get lonesome here soon.
Connie Bryce: I've been lonesome all my life.
[Uncomfortable with the conversation, Tarzan leaves]
Connie Bryce: What's the matter, Boy? Did I say something to upset him?
Boy: It's alright, Connie. But you see, Tarzan's lonesome, too. For Jane.
Connie Bryce: Oh. Is that the girl you mentioned in your prayers? Is she your mother?
[Boy nods]
Connie Bryce: You both must love her very much.
Boy: Of course we do.
Connie Bryce: Gee, she's a lucky girl.
Boy: Tarzan and I are the lucky ones.

Boy: Tarzan's been to Bir-Herari and so has Jane. She's told me all sorts of things about the desert people. They wear clothes all the time! Can you imagine that?

Paul Hendrix: Again, I remind you, that my offer to you still holds good. You have only to speak to become my full partner.
Prince Selim: Thanks. I'm not that easily bribed.

Connie Bryce: Well, now, about this message, am I supposed to memorize it or is it to be written on my back in invisible ink?

Connie Bryce: That old yawner about this being a small world certainly ain't no lie. A few weeks ago I'm playing five-a-day stands in flea-bitten vaudeville houses, then - voom! - I'm in Africa entertaining the soldiers who chased Rommel out. And then out of the clear blue sky I'm hired by a handsome Sheik to ride across yon buurning desert sands on a secret mission.

Achmed: Because the English I so well speak, I, Achmed No-Gosh Say-Golly, by my friends to address you, have been select.
Connie Bryce: Well, shoot.
Achmed: Is it true, oh mystic lady, that one within this box placed - may in half be sawin' - and afterward in one piece, put together, be?
Connie Bryce: Well, if it isn't true then I'd died a thousand horrible deaths. What's on your mind, Rudy?
Achmed: This magic, we wish to learn.
Connie Bryce: Oh, I get it. A free show, eh?
Achmed: My friend, Kushmet. Three wives with the tempers of she-camels he possesses. Upon two of which, the most homely, he would this strange magic perform - with failure. Thereby bending to his will, the mind of the third.

Connie Bryce: Criminy, who in the world would suspect a gal magician with a vaudeville show that's strictly from hunger.

Connie Bryce: I'm being framed. They're trying to give me a fast shuffle. I mean, I'm being accused of something I didn't do!

Connie Bryce: [singing] They will holler Boola Boo
[speaking]
Connie Bryce: Nice going, chump.
Prince Selim: Say, where did you learn song?
Connie Bryce: Oh, I've had a very liberal education. I've been intercepting Yale passes for years.

Connie Bryce: Ameer has twice sent couriers to you with confidential messages.
Prince Selim: But, I never received any such messages?
Connie Bryce: Well, wake up, chum. There's dirty work at the crossroads. Somebody bumped those two guys off.

Connie Bryce: This is gonna make up for all that sand I swallowed. Boy, am I relaxed.
Tarzan: Good to rest after struggle.
Connie Bryce: Good? It's heavenly!