Don't Knock the Rock (1956)

Alan Dale: Arnie Haines

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Quotes 

• [Bill Haley walks up to a table with Arnie Haines and Alan Freed] 

  Bill Haley : How we doin', Dad, the newspaper gal diggin' us?

  Arnie Haines : Yeah, real deep. She sounds like she has us plowed way under already.

  Alan Freed : That's freedom of the press.

  Bill Haley : Yeah, and I always thought that freedom of the press was a tailor who irons your suits for nothing. It shows you.

  [everyone laughs a forced and phony laugh, and then they all get up and leave; Bill Haley looks offended] 

• Arnie Haines : He seems to think that running around in my underwear or getting thrown out of my hotel is news. And does that sound like news to you guys?

  Member of Applejacks : If you were Kim Novak, it might.

  Arnie Haines : Oh, very funny.

• Arnie Haines : Well, we have a point to prove Mr. Everett. We'd like to show the rest of the country that Rock-n-Roll is a safe and sane dance for all young people.

  Sunny Everett : It hasn't hurt me any, has it?

• Bill Haley : I don't know whether I ought to speak to you guys or not.

  Arnie Haines : Why is that?

  Bill Haley : The only way I can get more publicity than you - is to go up Broadway without my underwear.

  Arnie Haines : Yeah, well, the next time it'll be Alan here doing the Lady Godiva, not Arnie Haines.

• Arnie Haines : Man, they really go, boy.

• Arnie Haines : You guys are murder.

• Mayor George Bagley : I tell you, Mr. Haines, and we the people of Mellondale consider your so-called music outrageous! Rock-n-Roll is for morons! You've seen the moral effect it's having on our younger generation. And I say again, it's outrageous! Depraved!

  Arnie Haines : Well, what's depraved about dancing?

• Arnie Haines : Yeah, you got the rock, all right. But I think your roll just stripped a gear.

• Arnie Haines : I tell you, I was beginning to think maybe I am some kind of a freak. They called me everything but that today. I guess that makes me normal, huh?

• Francine MacLaine : I've come to the conclusion that Rock-n-Roll is a symptom of the young people. Asserting themselves for their right to do things as they think fit. They resent the wrong kind of discipline by parents.

  Arnie Haines : Parents would never understand that.

  Francine MacLaine : Sometimes people assert themselves in the wrong way.

  Arnie Haines : How did you get so smart at your age, little girl?

  Francine MacLaine : Isn't that beside the point?

  Arnie Haines : Pretty, too. And you couldn't have spent your time in beauty parlors.

  Francine MacLaine : Thank you.

• Arnie Haines : It isn't me at all. Arnie Haines is just a name. If it weren't Arnie Haines, it'd be somebody else. Kids just pick somebody like me and wave me like a flag. They wanna hold me in front of their parents' noses like a pair of red britches in front of a bull.

• Arnie Haines : [singing]  To be your slave, I'll endeavor, I'll love you forever...

• Francine MacLaine : Why did you kiss me?

  Arnie Haines : Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't even know I had kissed... You know, you shouldn't look like that if you don't want to be kissed.

  Francine MacLaine : Strictly a sex attraction, wasn't it?

• Arnie Haines : La-la-la, De-de-de-de

  Francine MacLaine : Go ahead, sing it.

  Arnie Haines : [singing]  Your love is my love, And your life is my life, With every breathe I take, I'll make your dreams come true...

• Alan Freed : Now what are we gonna do?

  Arnie Haines : We're gonna turn the other cheek, and let her take a sock at that, too.

• Arnie Haines : We'd like to put on a special Rock-n-Roll show here some Saturday night.

  Sunny Everett : Man, that'd be the coolest! Arnie Haines, right here in Friesville!

  Tom Everett - Influential Citizen : Whoa, now, honey, not so fast.

• Arnie Haines : Miss Everett, look, I'm a lot older than you are, you know?

  Sunny Everett : [gives Arnie a long kiss]  There. Now I just grew up five years. See you, Arnie.

• Sunny Everett : You'd never think I'm not 18 yet, would you?

  Arnie Haines : Is that a warning?

• Arnie Haines : Hey, where does your mother think you're at tonight?

  Francine MacLaine : At a hog-calling contest.

• Bill Haley : The newspaper gal digging us?

  Arnie Haines : Yeah, real deep. She sounds like she has us plowed way under already.

  Alan Freed : That's freedom of the press.

  Bill Haley : Yeah, and I always thought freedom of the press was a tailor who ironed your suits for nothin'.

• Sunny Everett : Oh, now come on. If the world was made in six days, we should be able to make a little time in 15 minutes.

  Arnie Haines : Boy, something tells me your father missed up on a few spankings somewhere along the line.

  Sunny Everett : I parked it here just for us.

  Arnie Haines : If you think I'm gonna go for a drive now...

  Sunny Everett : Now, who said anything about driving? I just want to talk. Get in.

  Arnie Haines : Okay, start talking.

  Sunny Everett : [puts Arnie's arm around her shoulder]  There. Now I can always say I necked with Arnie Haines.

  Arnie Haines : Necked?

  Sunny Everett : You're the most scared man I ever did see.

  Arnie Haines : I wish you were the most scared girl I ever saw.

• Sunny Everett : Don't you know that in some countries, girls get married at 14?

  Arnie Haines : That's it. You should go there.

• Alan Freed : Light up the lantern and let the bells toll 'cause that man's comin' out to Rock-n-Roll. So take off your handcuffs and take off your chains, while we dig with the mostest of - Arnie Haines!

  The Applejacks : [singing]  Ding-dong. Ding-dong-ding-dong.

  Arnie Haines : A bell is gonna ring one of these days

  The Applejacks : One of these days

  Arnie Haines : And the choir is gonna sing one of these days

  The Applejacks : One of these days

  Arnie Haines : When you press your lips to mine, Tell me, honey, our love's divine...

• Arnie Haines : You, with a typewriter for a mother.

• Arnie Haines : Let's get on with the show. Ladies and gentlemen, some Rock-n-Roll terpsichore. One, two, three, four.

  The Applejacks : [singing]  Don't knock the rock, boy, You got to roll it, Don't knock the rock, boy, You got to roll!

  Arnie Haines : You can knock bebop and you can knock swing

  Arnie Haines , The Applejacks : Say what you want about any old thing, Don't knock the rock, Don't knock the rock

  Arnie Haines : My baby don't do nothing but Rock-n-Roll, that's all!

  The Applejacks : That's all, That's all, That's all...

• Arnie Haines : [to Tina]  Why do people like yourselves - want to see me or talk to me?

  Alan Freed : Because you're Arnie Haines.

  Arnie Haines : You stay out of this.

  [to Tina] 

  Arnie Haines : You. I'm sorry. You tell me, please.

  Tina Stephens : Golly, Mr. Haines, maybe it's the way you sing, or the beat or something.

  Arnie Haines : You don't really know, though, do you?

  Tina Stephens : Isn't it enough that we want to see you and talk to you?

  Arnie Haines : Sure, and I'm grateful, little brown eyes. Thank you.

• Arnie Haines : [singing]  There are 91,000 raindrops in a shower...