Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

Francis Ford: Efe

Quotes 

• New Moses : I swear henceforth that liquor will never touch these lips.

  Efe : Me too!

• Doctor John Pearly : A steamboat is a female, you know? And when they're struttin' up and down the river, where everybody's lookin' at 'em, they're just like a woman with a new Easter bonnet on. But when nobody ain't lookin' at 'em, why, they get kind of careless - and don't care.

  Efe : Yeah-sloppy.

  Doctor John Pearly : Sloppy. That's right. But with a-with a good, live man on this boat like you are - say, you can make this thing perk up - and strut! Get some paint on her nose and get these chickens out of here. We can put them right in the pot now. Here. Here. Start flirtin' with that.

• Doctor John Pearly : Well, engineer, what do you think of it?

  Efe : Kind of looks as though a lot of rats have to find themselves a new hole.

• Efe : She ain't got another lick in 'er. We're sure licked now.

• New Moses : Hey! What are you drinkin' there?

  Efe : Medicine.

  New Moses : Brother Efe, you've been deceivin' me! That's demon rum!