Animal Crackers (1930)

Louis Sorin: Roscoe W. Chandler

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Quotes 

• Capt. Spaulding : One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Then we tried to remove the tusks. The tusks. That's not so easy to say. Tusks. You try it some time.

  Roscoe Chandler : Oh, simple: "tusks."

  Capt. Spaulding : [shakes Chandler's hand]  My name is Spaulding. I've always wanted to meet you, Mr. Chandler. As I say, we tried to remove the tusks. But they were embedded so firmly we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa, but that is entirely ir-elephant to what I was talking about.

• Ravelli : [asking Roscoe Chandler about his new identity]  How did you get to be Roscoe W. Chandler?

  Roscoe Chandler : Say, how did you get to be an Italian?

  Ravelli : Never mind that, whose confession is this?

• Roscoe Chandler : Now tell me, Capt. Spaulding, you've been quite a traveler. What do you think about South America? I'm going there soon.

  Capt. Spaulding : Is that so! Where're you going?

  Roscoe Chandler : Uruguay.

  Capt. Spaulding : Well, you go Uruguay and I'll go mine.

• Roscoe Chandler : Now, please, Chandler is my name. Roscoe W. Chandler.

  Ravelli : Yeah, but I don't care about the name. You see, some place I met you before; because, your face is a very familiar. Now, wait, let me see. Were you ever in Sing-Sing?

• Roscoe Chandler : Hooray for Capt. Spaulding! Three cheers for Capt. Spaulding! Three cheers for Capt. Spaulding! Three cheers...

  [Harpo arrives with three chairs] 

  Mrs. Rittenhouse : No one asked for the chairs. Put them right were you found them. Now, get out.

• Roscoe W. Chandler : Now tell me, Captain, ah, Chandler, ah, excuse me, Spaudling.

  Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding : That's right. I'm Spaulding and you're Chandler. Let's have no more of that either.

  Roscoe W. Chandler : All right.

  Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding : It's bad enough being Spaudling.

  Roscoe W. Chandler : Now tell me, Captain Spaudling... Spaulding is the name?

  Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding : That's right, that's right. I'm Chan... I'm Spaulding.

  Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding : [Speaking directly to the camera]  Can I look at a program a minute? I might be the News Weekly for all he knows. Or Coming Next Week.

• Roscoe Chandler : Listen, here. I have me a check for $5,000. Now, I give it to you. Here.

  Ravelli : Hey, is it good?

  Roscoe Chandler : Well, of course it is good. Who would give me a bad check?

  Ravelli : I would!