Edward G. Robinson credited as playing...
John Allen
- John Allen: Listen, Bud, I don't think I'm gonna horn in on your party tonight.
- Bud Clark: Gettin' stuck up, all of the sudden, are you? Me and Annie ain't good enough for you any more?
- John Allen: It ain't that and you know it. It's only that, well, I don't know who the dame is Annie's going to bring along for me. I ain't so keen about a blind date.
- Bud Clark: Aw, she'll be all right. Annie knows you're particular about dames! She'll get ya a good number.
- John Allen: Yeah? Well, how about that truck horse she picked out for me last time?
- Bud Clark: I give her the devil for it, didn't I?
- John Allen: Yeah, a lot of good it did me. I was stuck with her for a whole evenin'. Boy, all that dame wanted to do was eat - eat and dance. I felt like I was handlin' the rear end of a fire truck.
- John Allen: Do you girls have to dance with everybody who has a ticket?
- Shirley Day: Why not?
- John Allen: Well, it must be sort of tough lettin' every guy paw you.
- Shirley Day: They don't paw me! Not if they know what's good for 'em.
- Shirley Day: What do you do for a living?
- John Allen: Well, I'm a riveter.
- Shirley Day: Oh, that's where you get such a big muscle, ain't it. You make good money at it too, don't you?
- John Allen: Sixty-two fifty per!
- Shirley Day: Boy! You and Rockefeller!
- John Allen: I think education is the biggest thing in the world.
- Shirley Day: Oh, not that I'm against education. I got a good one myself.
- John Allen: You have?
- Shirley Day: Yeah. I went a year to high school.
- Bud Clark: What are you hanging around her so much for then?
- John Allen: Well, she's good company. She knows things. She goes to school.
- Bud Clark: She goes to school.
- John Allen: Yeah.
- Bud Clark: I'll say she's a wise hen! She's found out your nuts about that education stuff and she's tryin' to hook you with that bait!
- Bud Clark: She was born crooked! It ain't in her nature to play square.
- John Allen: Now, don't say that. She's on the level, in that way, with men, I mean. I know she is.
- Bud Clark: Yeah? Where'd she get all them glad rags she was dolled up in when she come to ya? From dancin'? She only made five cents a dance. There's a limit to how much you can make addin' up pennies in a night. Why, she wouldn't have made enough to buy them clothes even if she was a - a - merry-go-round!
- John Allen: She's worked hard!
- Bud Clark: Sure, she has. And I'll tell you where she did it too. The same place she still goes every afternoon.
- John Allen: She goes to the movies!
- Bud Clark: Yeah?
- John Allen: I don't know what keeps me from killing you.
- Shirley Day: If you did, the goose would stop layin' the golden eggs!
- John Allen: It ain't fair! It ain't fair to let a rat live and kill a man! No! It ain't reasonable. It don't make sense!
- Shirley Day: [Getting ready to leave for the dance hall in a tight-fitting dress] Well, Big Boy, what do I look like now?
- John Allen: [Contemptuously] Just like what you are!
- John Allen: [Referring to Bud's racetrack winnings] Say, you ain't gonna blow him the whole 38?
- Bud Clark: Well, I sure am! You don't spend easy money fast, no more will ever come to you.
- John Allen: Oh, yeah, but, it seems crazy to spend all that jack on a couple-a dumb dames!
- John Allen: [to Bud] Yeah, now look here, anytime I take a dame out, she knows what it is to be out. I satisfy!
- Bud Clark: You're in a bad way. Better take some aspirin. First thing I know you'll be goin' sourer on me, you'll be clippin' some of those coupons and gettin' yourself a study book to carry around!
- John Allen: Well, that mightin' be a bad idea, at that!
- Bud Clark: Oh, no. Not while you're bunkin' with me. I ain't gonna live with no lily!
- John Allen: The girl I'm gonna fall for is gonna have real class.
- Bud Clark: Yeah? I ain't seen no poodle dogs chasin' ya.
- John Allen: Yeah, well she's gonna have an education. A girl you can learn somethin' from. Ain't no use in both of us bein' dumb.
- Bud Clark: No wonder the girls don't like ya.
- John Allen: Oh, they like me well enough. Say, didn't that fire wagon slobber all over me?
- Bud Clark: That's because you was feedin' her good. If Annie's got you a thin one this time, I bet she won't even give you a tumble.
- John Allen: Yeah, well that'll be her tough luck.
- Shirley Day: Say, big boy, you sure are a swell little hoofer.
- John Allen: You ain't so bad, yourself.
- John Allen: That's what's the trouble with your job. You know, it makes a guy think you're - well, what he said you were. You hadn't ought to work there any more.
- Shirley Day: I don't.
- John Allen: Gee and it was my fault you got canned.
- Shirley Day: Oh, no! Nothing would have happened if I hadn't slapped him myself. But, then, I couldn't let him play around with me that way, could I?
- John Allen: No! Not if you're decent.
- Shirley Day: Well, that's one thing I am! I may work in a tough joint, but everybody that knows me, knows I'm on the level.
- John Allen: Well, that's the only way for a girl to be.
- Shirley Day: I'll speak to Tony myself. I'm sure he'll take me on again.
- John Allen: Oh, no, no. Say, that would give all those fellas a chance to get fresh with you again.
- Shirley Day: It'll only be for a short time.
- John Allen: It sure is tough on a pretty girl, ain't it.
- Shirley Day: You really think I'm pretty?
- John Allen: Why, yeah.
- Shirley Day: I'm glad you think so.
- John Allen: I get a big kick out of Shirley.
- Bud Clark: Aw, you could do better with a mule!
- John Allen: You think I'm stuck on her; but, I ain't. I got my eyes open. I know what I'm doing.
- Bud Clark: But, do you know what she's doing? That's what counts!
- Shirley Day: I know you don't care a rack about me.
- John Allen: [drunkenly] Sure I do, Shirley. I like you a whole lot! I said I did.
- Shirley Day: You never kiss me.
- John Allen: Well, I did. Just awhile ago.
- Shirley Day: Oh, I don't mean like that. I mean kiss me because you must do it! Because you can't keep yourself back! Because your whole insides burn up just for me.
- John Allen: Oh, shucks, Shirley.
- Shirley Day: That's how I am with you.
- [passionate kiss]