Mickey Rooney credited as playing...
Stanley Maxton
- Stanley Maxton: When I left the hospital, I was a Happy Jack. I-I had myself a set of drums and a jalopy. The sun was shining and the road to LA was good.
- Detective Lt. Bonnabel: Where does Jane Tafford work?
- Stanley Maxton: At a place called Fluffs - out on The Strip.
- Stanley Maxton: Sonny was as good as his word. He paid for the drums and took me up to his place on The Strip - a fancy layout with all the fixin's, all the refreshments, liquid - and - otherwise.
- Delwyn 'Sonny' Johnson: Where are you gonna wind up beating a drum all your life?
- Stanley Maxton: Well, I figured if I saved up enough dough, in a few years, I could buy a little club of my own.
- Stanley Maxton: You play your cigarettes right and you'll find you got a steady customer. Here, honey, keep the change.
- Stanley Maxton: I work for an insurance company and I make triple what I could make in the band business.
- Fluff: I'll give you 20% over scale and look at the company you'll be, Jack Teagarden, Louis Armstrong.
- Stanley Maxton: They're real wonderful. They're the greatest cats in the world, but, no thanks.
- Fluff: Kid, it looks like you're on a spot.
- Stanley Maxton: You don't want somebody to throw a bomb in your place, do you?
- Fluff: Well, if it isn't an atom bomb, I think I could take it.
- Stanley Maxton: These guys don't play for laughs.
- Fluff: You were that good a salesman, eh?
- Stanley Maxton: I couldn't sell a dollar bill for 88 cents.
- Fluff: Listen, let me tell you something, this is a free country. You can work, play, pray, and think as you please. And if anybody tells you, you can't? Fight 'em!
- Stanley Maxton: Oh, that's easy to say.
- Fluff: Yeah, well, look! If you don't, you're gonna be licked all your life.