Back in Circulation (1937)

Pat O'Brien: Bill Morgan

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• Murphy : The Great Eastern Railway won't like it.

  Bill Morgan : I feel awfully sad about the Great Eastern Railway. I'm running a newspaper not a timetable!

• Bill Morgan : Timmy, haven't I always told you - you were a great newspaper woman. And, I like you, too. I'm daffy about you.

  'Timmy' Blake : Yeah?

  Bill Morgan : Yeah. But, right now you ought to get some sleep. You look like something that's come out of a faucet.

  'Timmy' Blake : Something that came out of a faucet! Well, why shouldn't I? For the past five hours I've been up to my knees in blood and trains and mud and bodies! And for what? For you! You egotistical printing press! And you expect me to come here looking like a debutante on her way to the opera!

• 'Timmy' Blake : You and your smelly jocks can take a broad jump in the river!

  Bill Morgan : What river?

  'Timmy' Blake : Shut up!

• Bill Morgan : What do you mean she's not there? Imagine that double-crossin' dame leavin' me high 'n dry like that.

• 'Timmy' Blake : Dorinda!

  Dorinda - Timmy's Maid : Was sa matta? Was sa matta, Miss Timmy?

  'Timmy' Blake : Throw this Peeping Tom outta here.

  Bill Morgan : Get her suit, coat and a pair of goulashes and an old toothbrush and pack a bag right away.

• Bill Morgan : Unidentified man? That makes a great story: Arline Wade out with another man the night before her husband's funeral. Headline: Arline Wade, Beautiful Broadway Butterfly...

  'Timmy' Blake : Returns To Her Old Haunts...

  Bill Morgan : Indulges In An Orgy Of Dining And Dancing While Her Husband Lies Dead In A Beautiful Mansion

• Bill Morgan : Splash that picture all over the front page! Put in a drawing on page 3 of a night club orgy of champagne bottles, dames' dancing, everybody plastered!

• Bill Morgan : Sam, I want to tell you something. You're a prince. You really are, fella. I've always said you're one of brightest guys in New York. Haven't I, Timmy?

  'Timmy' Blake : Right.

  Mac : What's this leading up to?

  Bill Morgan : Well, now, look, you don't mind going through a few pictures, do ya? I didn't think so. Look, here, have a cigar. I'm gonna have one myself.

  Mac : I'll take an aspirin.

• 'Timmy' Blake : I'm gonna run an ad of your nightclub for the next three weeks and it's not going to cost you a quarter.

  Mac : Thanks, Bill!

  'Timmy' Blake : It might cost you a coupla bucks.

  Bill Morgan : Ha, cutie. Always clowning.

• Bill Morgan : That dame is a murderess or I'm Marie Antoinette.

• 'Timmy' Blake : What are you doing here?

  Bill Morgan : You female Judas, I dropped over here to slug you.

  'Timmy' Blake : Start sluggin'.

• Bill Morgan : If she don't think I'm gonna get that story, she's off her nut.

• 'Timmy' Blake : You wouldn't listen to me, would you? You thought you were the mastermind of the Press. You dumb, stupid, moronic...

  Bill Morgan : Now, what a minute!

  'Timmy' Blake : What a minute? I've waited for years for this. To prove to you that there are things in the world that are fine and decent. And there are women that would throw anything for the man they love!

• Bill Morgan : A newspaper never waits, my pearl.

• 'Timmy' Blake : Do you still think dames are all alike?

  Bill Morgan : Yep!

• Bill Morgan : [final lines]  A newspaper never waits, my pearl! Come on, we've wasted half a day already. Taxi! Yahoo!