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Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane in Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)

Tom Kennedy: Gahagan

Torchy Gets Her Man

Tom Kennedy credited as playing...

Gahagan

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  • Charles Gilbert: [after hearing Gahagan slurping his soup] How did you find your soup?
  • Gahagan: Oh, I just looked into the dish and there it was and it was swell.
  • Torchy Blane: Hmm. So, I heard.
  • Gahagan: [about his betting system] Okay, I'll tell it to you, but yuh gotta keep mum.
  • Torchy Blane: I'll be very secree-tive.
  • Gahagan: I don't care about that, but yuh gotta keep it mum.
  • Gahagan: [Introducing Torchy] This is Torchy Blane of the Herald, Lt. McBride's finance.
  • Tom Brennan: Have a cigar.
  • Gahagan: Oh, thanks. "Colorado Cabaggio"
  • Tom Brennan: "Colorado Cubana"
  • Gahagan: Oh, yeah. My Greek ain't so hot. I'll smoke it a little later. Nothing like a good cigar. It reminds me of a poem I once wrote: "When your head is all a muddle, And noise is all ajar, And you got no one to cuddle, You'll get a joy in a cigar." Not bad!
  • Tom Brennan: Well, not good.
  • Gahagan: Yeah, but not bad.
  • Marie - Gang Moll: You can't do this to me.
  • Gahagan: How can I do what I ain't doin'?
  • Gahagan: Swell guy, that Brennan.
  • Steve McBride: What did he do kiss you?
  • Gahagan: Huh?
  • Police Captain McTavish: Say, where did you get that lipstick on your face?
  • Gahagan: Lipstick? It must've come from that dame that kissed me.
  • Steve McBride: Listen, Gahagan, when the Captain sends you on an important errand, you're not supposed to stop and play kissin' games.
  • Gahagan: I didn't stop. And, anyway, it wasn't me she thought she was kissin'.
  • Gahagan: I feel a poem comin' on: "Capt' McTavish is a Scotchman, McBride and me is Micks, If I tell Torchy one more thing, They'll send me to the sticks."
  • [laughs]
  • Gahagan: Not bad, not bad.
  • Gahagan: I'll tell you how it works. First, I concentrate. Sort of, go into a trance. Then I make me mind go blank.
  • Torchy Blane: That should be very easy.
  • Gahagan: Make my mind go blank? It's the easiest part of the system.
  • Gahagan: Remember, keep my system to yourself. Only me and you and Steve know anything about it.
  • Torchy Blane: Did you let Steve in on it?
  • Gahagan: Oh, sure. But, you know Steve. I think the system is a little too much for his mental fatality.
  • Tom Brennan: I'll smoke it later. Nothing like a good cigar after dinner.
  • Gahagan: That's right. Reminds me of a poem...
  • Tom Brennan: I heard it!
  • Gahagan: That's right. You did.
  • Torchy Blane: Gahagan, a light begins to glimmer in the gloom.
  • Gahagan: What gloom glimmers where?
  • Gahagan: Oh, Torchy!
  • Torchy Blane: What's the matter?
  • Gahagan: Oh, I feel a poem comin' on: "If my job I should lose, You can blame a dame, You can't blame booze, And I'll tell you where to put the blame, Upon the head of Torchy Blane."
  • Gahagan: Gee, those Feds must be dumb dicks!
  • Gahagan: [climbing over a gate] I feel that somthin' is gonna happen to my pants.

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