20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)

Spencer Tracy: Tommy Connors

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• Tommy Connors : I'd give a million bucks to be alone with you for a little while honey. Do you love me?

  Fay Wilson : Yeah.

  Tommy Connors : Well don't come up here dolled up like that anymore.

  Fay Wilson : Why, Tommy?

  Tommy Connors : What's the matter with you? Do you want me to go crazy? You have me foaming at the mouth like a cream puff.

  Fay Wilson : On, I'm sorry, Tommy, I never thought about that. I just want to look nice for you.

  Tommy Connors : That's alright. But, you know you don't have to come up here looking too hot!

• Tommy Connors : What are you guys trying to do? Make a monkey out of me?

  Policeman : Go on and sit down.

  Tommy Connors : Say, I guess you don't know who I am. Maybe the warden didn't tell ya. I'm Tommy Connors.

  Policeman : Oh yeah? What of it?

  [Tommy punches him] 

  Policeman : Why, you!

• Policeman : Hey you, come on out.

  Tommy Connors : If you're coming in to give me the works, you'll have to come in and drag me out.

  Policeman : Oh, no, no, no. No more of that. You've got a big pull around here. The warden said you don't have to wear a uniform.

  Tommy Connors : Well, certainly. Ha, okay let's go boys.

• Policeman : Come on.

  Tommy Connors : Hey wait a minute. Wait a minute. What about my clothes?

  Policeman : You said you didn't want any uniform and the warden said it would be all right.

• Fay Wilson : Tommy!

  [runs to him and kisses him] 

  Fay Wilson : Darling. Are you okay?

  Tommy Connors : Yeah, sure. Gee, it's swell to see ya. How are you? All right?

  Fay Wilson : Yeah. Oh, darling, I'm glad to see ya. Are you okay?

  Tommy Connors : Sure.

• Fay Wilson : I don't want anything. Get out.

  Joe Finn : So you changed your mind huh? Just a trouble making broad. And you're not gonna get a chance to squawk.

  Tommy Connors : She ain't gonna squawk. And neither am I.

  Joe Finn : Conners!

  Tommy Connors : Yeah, yeah, it's me. And I got here just in time to rub you out, you dirty...

  [punches him] 

  Fay Wilson : Tommy!

• Tommy Connors : Warden, I never broke my word, see - not even to a rat, and I won't break it now to a square guy. After what you're doing for me, I'll come back... even it means the chair, I'll come back.

• Tommy Connors : Come on and I'll show ya how tough I am.

• Tommy Connors : You go out and grab yourself a square guy, you see. See, a guy that works for a living that can give you a home and kids and happiness. All that kind of stuff.

  Fay Wilson : I don't want anybody but you. Any.

• Tommy Connors : [brashly about prison]  I'll kick my way outta that dump with moccasins on.

• Tester of Convicts' IQs : You're pretty smart when you want to be.

  Tommy Connors : Not so smart or I wouldn't be here.

• Fay Wilson : I don't want anybody but you, ever!

  Tommy Connors : Well, you can't have me because I belong to the State of New York, and in a few hours the State of New York's gonna take me out and burn me. Then they're gonna take out my brains and shove them in a jar of alchy.

• Reporter #2 : That's your castle on the Hudson, Tommy.

  Tommy Connors : Hi ya, Sing Sing. What a lousy name. Sounds like a Chop Suey joint.

• Tommy Connors : Alright, now I'll tell you somethin'. If I find that I got a way to crash my way out of here and I have to rub somebody out to do it, I'd just as soon rub you out as the next guy.

• The Warden - Paul Long : One of these days you'll learn, Connors, that no man has a spot in this world, except in relation to the people around him. That, you've got to be useful to live.

  Tommy Connors : Save that for Sunday, Warden. And let me pass the plate.