Hot Pepper (1933)

Boothe Howard: Trigger Thorne

Quotes 

• Trigger Thorne : I crave moisture. How about a drink?

• Trigger Thorne : [on the phone]  Hello there, baby.

  Hortense : Lil and I have got a Palooka here with ten grand... and he's just crying for someone to take it away from him.

  Trigger Thorne : Are you sure he's got the jack on him? Bring him up. We'll give him some action.

  [to his fellow gamblers] 

  Trigger Thorne : Hortense is bringin' up a mooch.

  [to Hortense] 

  Trigger Thorne : Okay, sweetheart. Bring your sucker along and be sure that nothin' happens to him before you get here.

  Hortense : Don't worry. If anything happens to him it'll be over my dead body. I need the dough.

• Trigger Thorne : Too bad, Quirt. Here's five bucks. Say, I don't want to see you go home broke.

  Harry Quirt : You got a heart like a green pea.

• Jim Flagg : Excuse the horse laugh. But, he's a phony!

  Trigger Thorne : Phony?

  Jim Flagg : What a sap you are!