Skirmish on the Home Front (1944)

Alan Ladd: Harry W. Average

Quotes 

• Harry W. Average : Look, Em, I work in a hardware store. So I get a raise. The price of nails has to go up a fraction of a cent. Well the wages of everybody who has got to buy nails has to go up a fraction of a fraction of a cent. It's a vicious... whatchamacallit. It's an inflationary... thingamajig. We're not hungry are we? So then why disconbobulate things for a fraction of a fraction?

• Molly Miller : Gee Herb that's wonderful. You're not mad at me are you Em? Harry wasn't going to buy it anyway!

  Herb Miller : No? Why not?

  Emily Average : 'Cos all Harry wants to have is a lot of old bonds.

  Herb Miller : Well, I buy 'em too.

  Harry W. Average : And I hold 'em. That's the whole idea.

• Molly Miller : Listen, dear, get yourself a new needle or change the record.

  Harry W. Average : OK, be funny! But it just doesn't make sense to grab nowadays. What if everybody in the country went around grabbing?