The Big Gamble (1931)

William Boyd: Alan Beckwith

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• Alan Beckwith : Nice day, isn't it - for a wedding. I hope we'll be good friends.

  Beverly : I hope so.

• Alan Beckwith : I just want to go out of the world the same way I came into it: all even.

• Alan Beckwith : We're going to live under the same roof for a year. My only hope was to keep us from being as unpleasant as possible.

  Beverly : Oh, how could it be anything but unpleasant?

• Squint Dugan : What's the matter? Didn't your wife like them roses?

  Alan Beckwith : No, I changed my mind. Take 'em home to your girl.

  Squint Dugan : My girl, nuttin', I'll give 'em to me wife. The shock will probably kill her.

• Alan Beckwith : Every time I step out of the house you start doggin' it after me. I'm beginning to get a little annoyed.

  Squint Dugan : You're annoyed? You should have my bunions.

• Alan Beckwith : I'll tell North all about it myself, eh, Mr, eh?

  Squint Dugan : Dugan, Squint Dugan.

• Beverly : It was nice of you to think of me.

  Alan Beckwith : It's getting to be a habit.

• Alan Beckwith : What's going on here?

  Andrew North : I was just satisfying your wife's curiosity -- as to why you married her.

• Alan Beckwith : I'm going to try my luck at one last gamble.