Mutiny in the Big House (1939)

Dennis Moore: Johnny Gates

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• Johnny Gates : Then for a $10 cheque I get sent up for one-to-fourteen years! For ten dollars! Yeah, and a number branded on me that'll never come off. And you're to help me, huh? What can you do - what can anybody do now? I'm a con. And when I get outta here, I'll be an ex-con, and I'll be walkin' the same streets, no job, no money, no hope for the future. Can you change any of that? Sure, I'll get sent up again, and be a two-time loser. And you know it, don't you?

• 'Dad' Schultz - Convict : I've been in here twenty years.

  Johnny Gates : Twenty years?

  'Dad' Schultz - Convict : Yes sir, twenty years. That's a long time, ain't it? But, you know, it'll go just like that

  [clicks fingers] 

  'Dad' Schultz - Convict : if you're happy!