A Missed Fortune (1952)

Larry Fine: Larry

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Quotes 

• Moe : [Larry uses boiling water to unglue his mouth]  What are you trying to do, boil me? Do you think I'm a lobster?

  Larry : [getting eye-poked]  Oh, wait a minute.

  Moe : I'll gouge your eyes...

  Larry : [blocking a second eye-poke, then laughing]  I fooled him.

  Moe : Well, you certainly did. Pardon me.

  Larry : Yes?

  Moe : [eye-poking him again]  Get away from here!

• Larry : [ordering room service]  Send up a dozen bottles of champagne. A dozen. Dozen! Spell it? Make it twelve instead.

• Shemp : Look! A rowboat.

  Larry : A rowboat? You're crazy. That's a horse trough.

  Moe : Horse trough? Rowboat? In a hotel? You imbeciles. That's a bathtub. Go on, take a bath.

  Larry : Wait a minute. It ain't spring yet.

  Moe : Oh, yes it is. See the grass?

  Larry : Where?

  [looking into the bathroom] 

  Larry : You're crazy. That's a bathmat.

  [Moe kicks him in the butt; stumbling forward, he hits the opposite wall] 

  Larry : [with his top hat covering his eyes]  Oh! Help! Turn on the lights! I can't see anything. It's dark in here! Fellas, help me! I'm going blind!

  Shemp : [pulling the hat off]  I'll help you.

  Larry : I can't see. I can't see!

  Moe , Shemp : What's the matter?

  Larry : I have my eyes closed.

  Moe : [eye-poking him]  Go on, take a bath.

• Hotel Manager : Gentlemen, if I can be of further service, please call me personally.

  Moe , Larry , Shemp : Thank you.

  Larry : Mr. Personally.

  Moe , Larry , Shemp : [bowing, they conk their heads together]  Ooh!

  Moe : You cement head.

  Shemp : Why, that's an insult with me. In my country, that's an insult.

  [taking a glove from his jacket pocket, he slaps Moe in the face] 

  Moe : On guard.

  Shemp : I got it.

  [they begin "sword fighting" with their cigars]