Clipped Wings (1953)
Huntz Hall: Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones
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Quotes
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Don't get excited, now. We gotta go about this thing in a regular perspectus of the law.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : If they harm one hair on Dave's head, they have to answer to me. Whatever they do to Dave, they have to do to me!
Louie Dumbrowsky : But, Sach, if David is found guilty, they'll stand him up against a wall and shoot him.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Well, I guess Dave's in this thing alone.
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Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : [mistaking recruitment forms for visitor forms] Sure ask a lot of questions for two guys just visitin' my friend Dave.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Don't ya understand they gotta keep a certain amount of security on dhese bases, hence dhese impoitinent interrogations.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : [returning to the form] Let's see. "Born." Yes. "Parents." One of each -- two.
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Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Bars, bars, bars... They do somethin' to me!
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Yeah, they keep ya in.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : You coitainly got us into an ambidextrous mess THIS time!
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : *I* got us into an ambidextrous mess? YOU were the guy! You said the right, but the guy said...
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Ehhh, shut up! Dhere's Barracks H, and dhere's Barracks C. Well, I guess dhis is where we disintegrate, and I'm coitainly glad!
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : But I'm gonna miss you, Chief.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, I ain't gonna miss YOU.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : But I'm gonna miss you.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, I regurgitate -- dhat means to repeat -- I ain't gonna miss YOU!
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Sach, I think we better get out to the air base and have a private filibuster with Dave and find out the facts, then we'll rent a mouthpiece and get him released on a writ of habeas corpuscle.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : You're right, Chief. How far is that air base?
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : About thirty miles as the crow flies.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Do I look like a crow?
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : No, but if they ever declare open season on pelicans, you better duck.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, here we are, fourth building to the right!
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Oh, Chief, the man said fourth building on the left.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Dhere you go buttin' in again with that freight train nose of yours! What, do you t'ink I got, a regular mitosis of the ear? I hoid what the man said! Just follow me!
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : I'll follow ya but I got a feeling you're gonna be sorry.
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Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Chief, how come we never carry guns?
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Because wit' you around I'd wind up in the electric chair.
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Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Well, they must be around here somewhere. The car couldn't get here by itelf.
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Dhat's a very declamatory reduction.
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Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : I want cha to keep both chore feet confirmly planted on terra cottage.
Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Oh. no, oh no. After a crack-up like that, I must go right back up in the air. It says so in my flying lessons.
Louie Dumbrowsky : [nearly choking on his cigar] Did you say you were taking flying lessons?
Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Don't pay any attention to him, Louie. I think dhe ride in that whirly-gig is infected the corregations of his brain shells.