Freddie Bartholomew credited as playing...
Claude
- Robert 'Buck' Murphy: [Headed to the principal's office] Hey, Limey. You didn't see me throw that football; you understand?
- Claude: I didn't?
- Robert 'Buck' Murphy: No. You know what we do with squealers around here?
- Claude: Uh-uh.
- Robert 'Buck' Murphy: We stuff 'em in a sack and drop 'em in the river.
- Claude: You do? That seems awfully drastic.
- Claude: Dad, do I have to go back with mother?
- Jay Pierce: Why, of course, at the end of six months.
- Claude: Why can't I stay here with you?
- Jay Pierce: Well, because your mother loves you and wants you with her, the same as I do, hm? You love your mother too, don't you?
- Claude: Well, of course. But she's always on boats or in Europe and I don't get a chance to get to know boys like Buck and Gig and Six Toes..
- Jay Pierce: Well, you'll be back yet again at the end of six months.
- Claude: Well, I know, but, Dad, couldn't I hide when the time came and you could say you didn't know where I was?
- Jay Pierce: Well, that would fix things.
- Principal: Murphy, did you throw that football?
- Robert 'Buck' Murphy: I don't know who threw it.
- Principal: Stevens?
- 'Gig' Stevens: I don't know.
- Principal: Pierce, this is this your football, isn't it?
- Claude: Yes, sir.
- Principal: Did you throw it?
- Claude: No, sir.
- Principal: Do you know who threw it?
- Claude: I really can't say, sir. I'm sorry.
- Principal: I cannot overlook deliberate lying.
- Jay Pierce: [Noticing Claude's shiner] Tell me about the fight.
- Claude: Well, it wasn't much of a fight. But I was kind of glad when the bobby came along.
- Claude: Why are they going to electrify his father tonight?
- Robert 'Buck' Murphy: He killed Joe Sullivan and the Connors brothers in a gang fight. Red Stevens is one of the toughest guys around here.
- 'Six-Toes': But he didn't have an alibi.
- Robert 'Buck' Murphy: Oh, he had an alibi, alright. But the guy wouldn't shut his face off.
- Claude: Face off?
- Robert 'Buck' Murphy: Squeal, you dope.