Terry and the Pirates (TV Series)

Extra Cargo (1953)

William Tracy: Hotshot Charlie

Quotes 

• Chopstick Joe : Look, Terry, I promised this load of raw silk would be in Singapore by tomorrow morning. With Chopsticks Joe, a promise is a promise.

  [Hotshot coughs violently] 

  Hotshot Charlie : Please, Chops, not while I'm eating.

• Chopstick Joe : Okay, so you're backing out on me just when I need you most and you won't even tell me why!

  Hotshot Charlie : You hear that, T. Lee? He thinks we're pilots.

  Terry Lee : I wonder where he got that idea?

  Hotshot Charlie : The way I hear it, pilots get paid for flappin' their wings.

  Terry Lee : And we haven't been paid a buck for two months.

  Hotshot Charlie : So if you don't get paid, you're not pilots.

  Terry Lee : If we're not pilots, we can't jockey a plane to Singapore - right, Chaz?

  Hotshot Charlie : Right, T. Lee.

• Chopstick Joe : If you two won't take that crate up, I'll fly it myself.

  Hotshot Charlie : Suicide will get you nowhere, Chops.

• Terry Lee : Hey, looks like we're coming into some rough weather.

  Hotshot Charlie : Maybe we can fly over it.

  Terry Lee : I don't know. I don't think this can of propellers can make the altitude. Maybe you ought to go back and check the cargo.

  Hotshot Charlie : What does the manifest say we're carrying?

  Terry Lee : Chops' own handwriting - 400 pounds of raw silk.

  Hotshot Charlie : You mean Chops loaded it; wrote out the bill of lading himself?

  Terry Lee : That could be anything from raw silk to samples of Fort Knox.

• [Hotshot returns to the cockpit dragging a stowaway] 

  Terry Lee : Everything shipshape?

  Hotshot Charlie : Yeah, except we're carrying an extra sailor.

• Burma : Look, boys, it's very simple. I'm on an assignment!

  Terry Lee : Huh?

  Burma : For Affiliated News Service. I met Mr. Trenton, the head of the Singapore office last week and talked him into giving me a crack at a job.

  Hotshot Charlie : You mean as a reporter?

  Burma : Sure! A girl can't live on her tonsils forever.

• [referring to the Dragon Lady] 

  Hotshot Charlie : This gal's got more angles than a jigsaw puzzle.

• Hotshot Charlie : You mean it's *our* plane that's going to be blasted!

  Dragon Lady : I do hope you're heavily insured.

• [last lines] 

  Burma : I may not need another job. You see, Mr. Trenton asked me to marry him.

  Terry Lee : Oh?

  Hotshot Charlie : What?

  Burma : He got so worried about me he decided it must be love. What do you think, Terry? Shall I accept?

  Terry Lee : Well, that depends on whether you...

  Burma : Oh, Terry, I knew you wouldn't let me do it! That's exactly what I said to Mr. Trenton. I said I'm practically engaged already.

  Hotshot Charlie : [to Terry]  Well, congratulations, old man!

  Terry Lee : Huh? What? Hey, now wait a minute! I just happened to remember - Chopstick expects us back tonight. Come on, Chaz, we'd better gas up the plane. See you around, Burma!