Tortilla Flat (1942)

Allen Jenkins: Portagee Joe

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Pablo : Where do we go now?

  Jose Maria Corcoran : Let's go down on the beach. We will go to sleep in the moonlight, under the sky.

  Pilon : The sky is a good place to sleep under. It is one roof that will never burn down - and it is one roof that will always be there tomorrow when you wake up, amigos.

  Jose Maria Corcoran : That's right!

  Pilon , Jose Maria Corcoran , Pablo , Portagee Joe : [singing]  Ai, Ai, paisano, La vida es asi...

• Pilon : Danny was a good man.

  Portagee Joe : Strong too. He had a punch like a mule.

  Pablo : Yeah, could make love, too. Make girls spin dizzy.

• Portagee Joe : [drunkenly singing]  All the girls, they love me.

  [talking] 

  Portagee Joe : Good evenings, my brothers! The world is made of the white breast of chickens - and I am deep inside of it.

  Pilon : Where have you been all day? Did you have a nice day?

  Portagee Joe : I met. a nice, fat girl from Castroville. Red hair like a flame, eyes like the stars. I can see them now.