Hot Pepper (1933)

Victor McLaglen: Jim Flagg

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Quotes 

• Jim Flagg : Remember Olga in Russia?

  Harry Quirt : Sure! I remember her. The minute she saw me, she gave you the gate.

  Jim Flagg : What are you talking about? Why, I had her in the palm of me hand.

  Harry Quirt : Yeah? Well you ought to seen where I had her.

• Jim Flagg : Where did you learn to speak Chinese?

  Harry Quirt : Night school, old boy, night school. Come here. Meet Madame Butterfly. Come on out, Half Moon.

  [backs out of the car] 

• Jim Flagg : You're the first comedian that ever made me cry.

• Harry Quirt : He still don't know where the Declaration of Independence was signed.

  Jim Flagg : Well, wise guy, where was it signed?

  Harry Quirt : At the bottom, fat head, at the bottom!

• Harry Quirt : Flagg, if you want to go into big business, I'll make you my partner.

  Jim Flagg : Partner! You're the kind of a guy that would give me half of everything I got.

• Jim Flagg : Listen, you ought to be kicked by a jackass. And I'd like to be the one to do it!

• Harry Quirt : Did you say you were buyin' this?

  Jim Flagg : Yeah.

  Harry Quirt : Waiter, the best laughing water you got in the house and plenty of giggles in it.

• Harry Quirt : Well, well, well, big business, huh?

  Jim Flagg : Sure.

  Harry Quirt : Well, I'm glad to hear it, Flagg ole boy. Good luck to you, ole pal. Now, listen, what you really need is guy like me to take care of your business.

  Jim Flagg : Yeah? What I really need is a guy like you to take care of your own business!

• Jim Flagg : Why, you dirty cellar smeller!

• Jim Flagg : How about five grand?

  Harry Quirt : I can't hear ya. You'll have to talk twice as loud.

  Jim Flagg : All right. All right. Come in the office and I'll give you an earful.

  Harry Quirt : Okay, your Flaggship.

• Jim Flagg : There's your money! You dodgy, double-crossing, buzzard, you. You no darn lyin' pickpocket! You big - I wish I could think of something dirty to call you!

  Harry Quirt : Why don't you think of your undershirt.

• Jim Flagg : When I see Quirt again, I'm gonna put a bump on his head and then knock it off.

• Jim Flagg : What's going on here?

  Pepper : Let go of me! You big bully, let go of my leg! Let go of my leg! I gonna kick you! You big bully! Let go of me! I kick you! Let go of me! Do not make me mad! Let go of me! Aww! Let go, you big, big bully!

  [Flagg takes her across his knee and starts spanking her behind] 

  Pepper : Are you going to get it! Awww! That hurts! Let go of me! You think I will let you get away with this! Let go of me!

• Jim Flagg : Now, you stay right here, see.

  Pepper : Oh, boo-boo!

• Jim Flagg : Hey, where do you think you are? In a Turkish bath?

• Pepper : [nude under the covers]  Oh! How did you get in my bedroom?

  Jim Flagg : Now, come on, Trouble, get out of that bed.

  Pepper : Well, you get me out.

  Jim Flagg : Now, come on, please, please, get out of that bed.

  Pepper : Oh, boo-boo-boo-boo.

  [giggles] 

  Jim Flagg : Maybe I've changed my mind. There's lots about you I never noticed before.

  Pepper : Well, you keep on noticin'. You know, I have already noticed that you're a very handsome and strong.

  Jim Flagg : How would you like me to be strong for you?

  Pepper : Oh, no-no-no. Don't do that.

• Jim Flagg : You're goin' back to South America.

  Pepper : And you've gone off your nut!

• Jim Flagg : You dirty, double-crossing grafter!

• Jim Flagg : Why, you dirty porch-climber!

• Jim Flagg : Excuse the horse laugh. But, he's a phony!

  Trigger Thorne : Phony?

  Jim Flagg : What a sap you are!

• Jim Flagg : How did you get in here?

  Olsen : How do I get out of here?

• Jim Flagg : Why, he's a cheap, tin-horn drifter!

• Harry Quirt : That was a fast one I pulled on the cops.

  Jim Flagg : Pulled on the cops?

  Harry Quirt : Sure! I didn't want them to know you were smugglin' in that Hot Tamale!

  Jim Flagg : I didn't smuggler her in. And I never want to see her again! Where is she?

• Jim Flagg : You've met the girls.

  Hortense : Why, yes! Remember? That was the night I powdered my nose.

  Harry Quirt : Yeah and you dropped your shoulder strap and I lost my pants.

• Jim Flagg : Girls, eat till you choke. This is on the house.

• Jim Flagg : I saw her first!

  Harry Quirt : Yeah? Well, I saw her possibilities!

  Jim Flagg : I wouldn't be surprised at anything you saw.

  Harry Quirt : And here's hoping I see more and more of it!

• Pepper : You like the way I shake - eh - my shoulders?

  Jim Flagg : I like the way you shake everything, baby! You're a knock-out!

  Pepper : Oh, you like me, eh?

  Jim Flagg : Like ya? Oh, I could go for you in big way!

• Jim Flagg : I came back to get my little Hot Tamale.

  Harry Quirt : You're on the outside lookin' in, Admiral. I'm gonna take the Hot Tamale to South America and marry her.

  Jim Flagg : Yeah? Well, I'm gonna marry her and then take her back to South America.

• Jim Flagg : Wait a minute, wait a minute. I'll toss it and you call it.

  Harry Quirt : Okay. Heads. I win.

  Jim Flagg : Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let's look at that coin. Wait a minute. Two heads on the same coin!

  Harry Quirt : Well, two heads are better than one.

• Pepper : What's the matter?

  Jim Flagg : I'll tell you what's the matter. We tossed a coin to see which one would win you.

  Pepper : Why you cheap-a-skates! So you were tossing a coin to see who can win me, eh? What do you think this is? A poker game and I'm the chips!

• Harry Quirt : Roll out these men and present arms.

  Jim Flagg : I can't do anything with 'em. I can't speak Chinese.

  Harry Quirt : No? Will you could if you didn't do your own laundry.

• Jim Flagg : Up to your old tricks again, eh?

  Harry Quirt : No, I got a lot of new ones.

• Harry Quirt : Ah, nuts!

  Jim Flagg : Ah, phooey!