Fire Down Below (1957)

Jack Lemmon: Tony

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• Miguel : [to Felix]  I'll talk to you. You're a reasonable man: your friend is a barbarian.

  Felix Bowers : Tony, you gonna sit here and hear your friend called a barbarian?

  Tony : Miguel, I forbid you to call this barbarian a barbarian.

  Felix Bowers : [nods]  You're a true friend.

• Tony : If you were so anxious, why didn't you do something about it yourself?

  Felix Bowers : Don't think I wouldn't if I thought it would work, man. The lady just ain't interested. What's she gonna do with a beat up old bum like me? She's blonde, she's pretty, comes from a good family, and she's got a rich husband. She wants only the best. Tall, blue eyed, straight limbed, boys with curly hair and burly teeth.

• Tony : Five hundred has a nice, wholesome ring to it. Doesn't it? Five Hundred?

  Felix Bowers : Yeah, seven hundred rings even better. It's too risky. a couple of cases of brandy or cigarettes is one thing; but, an illegal dame!

• Felix Bowers : If they ever catch us, they'll take the boat and lock us up and throw the key away.

  Tony : All right, they won't catch us.

  Felix Bowers : I've got a hunch, I don't feel so lucky.

  Tony : I feel lucky. We'll use my luck.

• Tony : How rich an American?

  Miguel : I have not asked to see his tax return.

• Tony : [to a bottle of rum]  Oh, you're beautiful. Marry me. And we'll sail the seven seas and we'll see the tombs of the Pharaohs and we'll pull in at Hong Kong and Bangkok and Indianapolis, Indiana. And I'll be faithful to you from here to the last history. And I'll cover you with jewels and I'll drown you with champagne.

• Tony : You defeat me! I don't know what you're aiming at. Are you trying to get chosen for the brute of the month club or something?

• Tony : I apologize for Felix.

  Irena : Nobody has to apologize to me for anything.

  Tony : I apologize for the whole human race.

• Tony : I got something for ya.

  Irena : Thank you. Well, Tony...

  Tony : Well, open it up. Open it. A native blouse. I thought with your color hair it might - It's very gay.

  Irena : Very gay.

  Tony : Yeah, try it on. I wasn't too sure about the - measurements. Go ahead! Try it on. The lady in the shop says it's bound to have a startling affect on a redhead.

• Irena : Do they have anything in the shops here that's guaranteed to make a woman invisible?

  Tony : What a waste that would be. Come on, let's go out. We'll have a great dinner and dance. Celebrate.

  Irena : Celebrate what?

  Tony : Celebrate the fact that you're not invisible.

• Felix Bowers : [sitting in a barber shop]  Welcome. Hang around. The next number on the program is the Beethoven Ninth.

  Tony : Yeah, I want to talk to you.

  Felix Bowers : Well, I've got a date to go to a cock fight in ten minutes. If you leave your name with the secretary, she might be able to arrange something for later on in the week.

• Felix Bowers : Have a drink.

  Tony : I don't want anything to drink.

  Felix Bowers : You want to listen to a medical fact? In this climate, sobriety kills more people per year than heart trouble, motor accidents or crimes of passion combined.

• Tony : Stop being so gay, I'm serious.

  Felix Bowers : Gay? Me? I'm so sad the little dogs howl in despair when they see me.

• Dr. Sam Blake : Have you seen this picture before?

  Tony : Yeah, the lady is my Aunt Clara and the man is my Sunday school teacher and the colored gentleman played second base for me when I managed the New York Giants.

• [last lines] 

  Tony : Like the man says, somedays you win, somedays you lose. Drinks are on me.

• Tony : I'm gonna' marry her, Felix.

  Felix Bowers : Of course. She's no good. She'll cheat ya', she'll pull ya' down... Everywhere you go you'll find men who'll look at you and laugh and say, "Hey, look at what our old friend Irena's gotten hold of now." She'll ruin ya'. Once she gets a better offer she'll leave ya'. So, naturally, you're gonna' marry her.