Don't Knock the Rock (1956)

Patricia Hardy: Francine MacLaine

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• Arlene MacLaine : Psychiatrists are blaming parents for everything these days. It's really quite the thing to be angry with one's mother. However, I'm sure I'll give you plenty of cause before I'm through with your Mr. Arnie Haines.

  Francine MacLaine : Mother...

• Francine MacLaine : I suppose you think that the Mayor is right.

  Arlene MacLaine : If I said yes, you'd think I'm not being fair. Let's just say, "no comment."

• Francine MacLaine : Teenagers are almost adults. They're entitled to their own opinions not what somebody dictates for them.

• Francine MacLaine : If she blasts you, man, you're blasted good.

• 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.

• 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...

• Francine MacLaine : Mother's kept boys away from me as if they had rabies. She once read where wolves get rabies like dogs.

• Francine MacLaine : Why couldn't my mother have been the kind who just sits home and does knitting?

• Francine MacLaine : Well, Mother, how does it look?

  Arlene MacLaine : As if they all need a sedative.

  Francine MacLaine : But you must admit, it's just dancing. That's all. These kids aren't doing anything wrong.

  Arlene MacLaine : Well, darling, how can I tell? They all move so fast, it looks like a double exposure.

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

  Francine MacLaine : At a hog-calling contest.

• Francine MacLaine : Parents don't want to blame themselves for what their children are doing. I mean, the kind that cut up classrooms and have knife fights. They don't want to blame themselves, so they find something like Rock-n-Roll to blame it on. If parents would only realize that their children are no different than they were 25 or 30 years ago.