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James Dunn, Robert Bice, Sam McDaniel, and Florence Rice in The Ghost and the Guest (1943)

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The Ghost and the Guest

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  • Ben Bowron: The least I can do is give him a decent burial. What'll it be? Under the cypress or the oleander?
  • Webster Frye: The oleander, it's poisonous.
  • Webster Frye: [points at holes in wall] Termites?
  • Ben Bowron: No, bullets.
  • Harmony Jones: My body's willing, but my knees won't raise to the occasion.
  • Harmony Jones: I begs to be excused. I's allergic to corpses.
  • Webster Frye: This place is busier than a meet market with meat.
  • Webster Frye: Go away will you, I'm married!
  • Little Sister Mabel: Ooh yeah, but I'm not! I'm only engaged to Ted. You know? The beefy one?
  • Harmony Jones: In two hours we could be in New York with millions of people around and all of em alive.
  • Police Chief Bagwell: Where's the cellar?
  • Webster Frye: [points down]
  • Police Chief Bagwell: I know that!
  • Ben Bowron: When I hang em, they stay hanged.
  • Webster Frye: I'll fix the place up nice and sweet and get some skeletons and use them for venetian blinds.

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