The Kissing Bandit (1948)

Frank Sinatra: Ricardo

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• Ricardo : Chico, I know all about the hotel business. I've studied! Look, I brought my cookbooks and plans to make this the finest hotel in all California. I - hot water in every room. Clean sheets on every bed. And window boxes. Window boxes in every window with pretty flowers.

• Ricardo : Chico, why did they call my father the Kissing Bandit?

  Chico : Oh, every bandit chief got a trademark. After every robbery, your father used to kiss the women - like you're gonna do. That was his trademark.

  Ricardo : You mean he kissed women he didn't even know?

  Chico : Sure.

  Ricardo : Women he wasn't introduced to?

  Chico : Oh, but you're gonna like it.

  Ricardo : Oh, no, I won't. Why, in Boston you don't even kiss women you do know! Not until you're engaged to them. Oh, no!

• Ricardo : My father, he did own the inn didn't he? He was an innkeeper wasn't he?

  Chico : Didn't you ever hear about him doing something else?

  Ricardo : Well, yes, I heard he had a little sideline. You mean, the little sideline is being a bandit?

  Chico : No, the sideline was being an innkeeper. The *main* thing was being a bandit.

  Ricardo : Oh, my. Oh, me. Son of a Bandit. That's terrible.

  Chico : But, you're not the son of just a bandit. You're the son of the Kissing Bandit!

• Ricardo : Do you know who I am?

  Teresa : Yes, you're a bandit.

  Ricardo : Not just a bandit. The Kissing Bandit.

• Ricardo : [singing]  If I steal a kiss, dear, I'll surely return it someday, If I steal your dreams, dear, I'll bring them back some way...

• Teresa : [singing]  What's wrong with me? Why wouldn't he kiss me? I thought he might, How can I right, What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me?

  Ricardo : What's wrong with me? Why didn't I kiss her? I had the chance, For a romance, What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me? Why didn't I kiss her? I didn't try, Why didn't I? What's wrong with me?

• Ricardo : But, Chico, she's so lovely. I had to see her again.

  Chico : In your business, you don't see anybody again. You kiss and vamoose. That's all.

• Chico : Chico, she doesn't like me.

  Ricardo : She doesn't like you? Who said she didn't like you?

  Chico : She did.

  Ricardo : She did? What does she know about it? Women always say no, as I remember.

  Ricardo : Well, maybe sometimes they mean it.

  Chico : Nah, Ricardo, listen. They always *want* to say yes. But when they are little girls their mothers tell them: "Don't make it easy. Make it tough." So, you gotta make eyes a little, flirt a little, waste a little time. Then they say yes *always*. This I do remember!

• Ricardo : I had to find out if you were as lovely as I remembered. And you were. And you are.

• Ricardo : He's been a bachelor too long.

  Chico : Nobody can be a bachelor too long.

• Ricardo : [singing]  Fly, why don't you shoo, fly, shoo?

• Teresa : You want to abduct me?

  Ricardo : Yes. We've dilly-dallied long enough.

• Chico : This is not a book, Ricardo mio. This is not a dream you are dreaming. But this is your life now, a bandit's life. Hard. Sometimes very short.

  Ricardo : But there are also good things in a bandit's life. Freedom, excitement and adventure.

• Ricardo : It's funny. Because I'm a bandit chief, I was able to win my heroine. And because I'm a bandit chief, I have to give her up.

• Ricardo : [singing]  Señorita, I can't bring a golden crown, Set with pearls and rubies rare, But I can bring a rose, And place it in your hair...