North of the Rio Grande (1937)

Jack Rutherford: Ace Crowder

Quotes 

• 'Lucky' Jenkins : [introducing Windy to Crowder as a piano player for the saloon]  Brought you a new professor - Windy Halliday, known far and wide as a cowboy troubador.

  'Windy' Halliday : [to Windy]  This is Ace Crowder. He runs the place.

  'Windy' Halliday : Hi.

  'Ace' Crowder : Professor, ah?

  [laughs derisively] 

  'Ace' Crowder : Looks more like something than crawled out of the bung hole of a beer keg!

  'Ace' Crowder : [to Windy]  Can ye play the piana?

  'Windy' Halliday : Shoo, heck, can I play the pi-an-ie? Why up in Deadwood City the cowboys used to call me the Padderhooski of the Weat!

  'Ace' Crowder : [laughs] 

  'Lucky' Jenkins : Yeah! Around cowboys he's known as a musician, but around musicians he's known as a cowboy.

• 'Hopalong' Cassidy : Say, are you the big chief around here, or are you talkin' for somebody else?

  'Ace' Crowder : I'm the big chief's right hand man.

  'Hopalong' Cassidy : Oh... right hand man, hunh? That's fine...

  'Hopalong' Cassidy : [he walks toward the door and turns]  You get this, Crowder - I don't do business with anybody's right hand man!

  [he leaves and slams the door behind him] 

• 'Ace' Crowder : Where's Stoneham?

  Faro Annie : He went bye-bye on the choo-choo.