The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

Steve McQueen: The Cincinnati Kid

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• Lancey Howard : Gets down to what it's all about, doesn't it? Making the wrong move at the right time.

  Cincinnati Kid : Is that what it's all about?

  Lancey Howard : Like life, I guess. You're good, kid, but as long as I'm around you're second best. You might as well learn to live with it.

• Cincinnati Kid : Listen, Christian, after the game, I'll be The Man. I'll be the best there is. People will sit down at the table with you, just so they can say they played with The Man. And that's what I'm gonna be, Christian.

  Christian : I know.

• Cincinnati Kid : You call that an argument?

  Slade : No, that's a fact. The argument's leaning over there against the door jamb.

  [Referring to his muscleman] 

• Cincinnati Kid : I don't need marked cards to beat you, pal.

• Cincinnati Kid : You're just not ready for me yet.

• Cincinnati Kid : The point is - that what good is honor if you're dead?

• Cincinnati Kid : What'd you do today?

  Christian : I went to the movies - and it was *all* in French.

  Cincinnati Kid : In French, huh?

  Christian : Yeah! You know what they do? They sign the words in at the bottom of the picture, in English, so that you could understand it.

  Cincinnati Kid : Oh yeah?

  Christian : Yeah!

  Cincinnati Kid : Oh, it wasn't in French.

  Christian : Huh? What?

• Cincinnati Kid : Wake up Lady Fingers. Ask if she's ready.

  Hoban : You ready, Lady Fingers?

  Lady Fingers : As Eddie the Dude said on his deathbed, "I'm as ready as I'll ever be."

• Melba : Why don't you make us a drink. You know where it is. All that dust at the pit. I always feel so dirty after one of those things.

  Cincinnati Kid : Brings out the best in you, Melba.

• Pig : Can't live with them and can't live without them, huh, Kid?

  Cincinnati Kid : Yeah, that's right, Pig.

  Pig : Don't lose no sweat, Kid. Mine left me too.

  Melba : I wonder why.

• Christian : You'll never guess where we've just been.

  Cincinnati Kid : Stag movies?

  Christian : We went to Turkish baths and we had rubdowns and everything!

  Melba : Yeah. You should have been there.

  Christian : Yeah!

• Shooter : Gentlemen, this game is five-card stud poker. There's no limit. No string bets. You can check and raise. A dead man has one half-hour to raise his roll outside and get back in the game.

  [deals] 

  Shooter : Ace. Seven. Nine. Nine. Trey. Dealer guns up a 10. Ace bets.

  Lancey Howard : Ten dollars.

  Sokal : Call the sawbuck.

  Yeller : I'll play.

  Cincinnati Kid : I'm in.

  Pig : Off and running.

  Shooter : Dealer folds.

  [deals] 

  Shooter : Eight to the ace. King to the seven. Queen to the nine. Pair of nines. Deuce. Pair of nines bets.

  Cincinnati Kid : Double sawbuck.

  Pig : I don't chase the nines.

  Lancey Howard : Hold.

  Sokal : I fold.

  Shooter : [deals new game]  Queen. Four. Ten. King. King. And an ace to the man.

  Lancey Howard : Ace bets $25.

  Yeller : And I can't get started.

• Lancey Howard : Now, Kid, what's your game?

  Cincinnati Kid : Stud poker.

• Melba : [Cincinatti Kid slaps her butt]  Ouch. You Bastard!

  Cincinnati Kid : Cheers baby.

  Melba : I hope you lose.

• Cincinnati Kid : What the hell are you going to Frenchy movies for, anyway?

• Christian : Well, this Spanish General has sent the message that he's coming to spend the night with his army. Now, the men in the town are scared silly; so, the wives and the daughters tell them not to worry and go away and hide someplace and let them bargain with him. You see?

  Cincinnati Kid : Who?

  Christian : Well, the ladies - with the Spanish Army. I won't tell it anymore.

  Cincinnati Kid : No, go ahead.

  Christian : No, I won't tell it. No.

  Cincinnati Kid : Just tell me what happens.

  Christian : No! You won't believe this. But, the women get together and have this big party and they all go to - bed with the Spanish Army.

  Cincinnati Kid : Oh, yeah?

  Christian : Anyway, come morning - the soldiers go off, and everybody's happy.

  Cincinnati Kid : Yeah, and the husbands are happy?

  Christian : Yeah, husbands, fathers, everybody. It seems they - it seems they cared more about their lives than they did about their honor. Does that seem right to you?

• Christian : I used to come here and play when I was a little one. I'd dream, mostly.

  Cincinnati Kid : Yeah? About what?

  Christian : Oh, just things that little girls dream about.

• Cincinnati Kid : Hello, Yeller.

  Yeller : Kill that cat, Kid.