Clipped Wings (1953)

Leo Gorcey: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney

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• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : [as Sach sits in a children's airplane ride machine]  Dhat thing will not circumnavigate unless you put a dime in it.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Naw, we tried to see 'im, but he's still refined to quarters.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Don't get excited, now. We gotta go about this thing in a regular perspectus of the law.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : If they harm one hair on Dave's head, they have to answer to me. Whatever they do to Dave, they have to do to me!

  Louie Dumbrowsky : But, Sach, if David is found guilty, they'll stand him up against a wall and shoot him.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Well, I guess Dave's in this thing alone.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Good old Sach - vacuum-packed.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Sgt. Brosky, I was just amusin' the boys and myself with a little filet of idle banter.

• Louie Dumbrowsky : Tell me the truth, Slip. How did you escape?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Escape? Louie, you don't escape from the guard house. Dhat would be perjury. I just stood on my indelible rights and I told fellas a piece of thing or two, so they opened the doors and let me out. What else could they do?

• Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : [mistaking recruitment forms for visitor forms]  Sure ask a lot of questions for two guys just visitin' my friend Dave.

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Don't ya understand they gotta keep a certain amount of security on dhese bases, hence dhese impoitinent interrogations.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : [returning to the form]  Let's see. "Born." Yes. "Parents." One of each -- two.

• Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Bars, bars, bars... They do somethin' to me!

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Yeah, they keep ya in.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : You know, sometimes I think Fate is a very declining obstacle.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Dhis is the millennium! We got important matters to attend to and you're teain' and fudgin' it up all afternoon. I'd like to belt you but I don't wanna bend the hat .

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : You coitainly got us into an ambidextrous mess THIS time!

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : *I* got us into an ambidextrous mess? YOU were the guy! You said the right, but the guy said...

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Ehhh, shut up! Dhere's Barracks H, and dhere's Barracks C. Well, I guess dhis is where we disintegrate, and I'm coitainly glad!

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : But I'm gonna miss you, Chief.

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, I ain't gonna miss YOU.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : But I'm gonna miss you.

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, I regurgitate -- dhat means to repeat -- I ain't gonna miss YOU!

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : I just got the necklace of an idea.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Sach, I think we better get out to the air base and have a private filibuster with Dave and find out the facts, then we'll rent a mouthpiece and get him released on a writ of habeas corpuscle.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : You're right, Chief. How far is that air base?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : About thirty miles as the crow flies.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Do I look like a crow?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : No, but if they ever declare open season on pelicans, you better duck.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : That's ridiculous. Dave wouldn't do a thing like that. It's absolutely inedible.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Yeah, you and your book! Suppose you're at 6,000 feet and dhere's a tropigraphical error in the book. Whadda gonna do, come down and get a new one?

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : This is a fine evolution of movement.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, here we are, fourth building to the right!

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Oh, Chief, the man said fourth building on the left.

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Dhere you go buttin' in again with that freight train nose of yours! What, do you t'ink I got, a regular mitosis of the ear? I hoid what the man said! Just follow me!

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : I'll follow ya but I got a feeling you're gonna be sorry.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : You coitainlty got a wonderful deception of what an hour is.

• Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Chief, how come we never carry guns?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Because wit' you around I'd wind up in the electric chair.

• Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Well, they must be around here somewhere. The car couldn't get here by itelf.

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Dhat's a very declamatory reduction.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Correction, Colonel. I t'ink maybe the Rover Boys here can do a better job of embellishing on the details., especially since I just gave each one of 'em a shot of their own truth cereal. Start talkin', ugly.

  Cralia Dupree : I have a dozen aliases, but my real name is Cralia Dupree. I've been tryin' to steal your military secrets. I'm guilty of espionage and criminal conspiracy. These papers incriminate me.

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Dhat's a better job than I thought you could do. Now you, mustache.

  Joe Eckler : I have been working with Dupree and all his underhanded doings and am equally guilty of espionage. These papers will put me in prison where I belong.

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Now, that's what I might call a capital confession. Last but not least, we'll hear a few words from the overstuffed bundle of spoiled vegetation.

  [snaps fingers] 

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Shorty, start talkin'.

  Anders : I am the biggest rat of them all. Here are my papers.

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Colonel, I think that ought to wrap up the while thing.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : I want cha to keep both chore feet confirmly planted on terra cottage.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Oh. no, oh no. After a crack-up like that, I must go right back up in the air. It says so in my flying lessons.

  Louie Dumbrowsky : [nearly choking on his cigar]  Did you say you were taking flying lessons?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Don't pay any attention to him, Louie. I think dhe ride in that whirly-gig is infected the corregations of his brain shells.