Big House (1930)
Wallace Beery: Butch
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Quotes
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John Morgan : You know it means the rope, Butch, if they catch you? Who's in on it?
'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : Well, me and Olsen and Joe and the Hawk.
John Morgan : The Hawk? That means blood.
'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : No, he promised me he wouldn't bump nobody off.
John Morgan : Why, he croaked his own mother.
'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : Sure he did. He cut her throat. He was sorry for it. He's all right.
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'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : [Looking at a picture of Kent's sister] Gee... it reminds me of Sadie. Gee, Sadie was a good skirt. I shouldn't have slipped her that ant poison. I should have just battered her in the jaw a few times.
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'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : What's your name?
'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : [after getting no response] I said what's your name?
Kent : Kent Marlowe.
'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : Mine's Schmidt. I'm known the world over as "Machine Gun Butch". You heard of me, naturally.
'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : [after Kent shakes his head 'no'.] Never heard of the Delancey Gang bein' wiped out? Well, I done the wipin'.
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John Morgan : What happens when you get through the inner gate?
'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : We crash that outer gate and there's a car waitin' outside.
John Morgan : When does it come off?
'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : Thanksgiving day. Noon. Most of the screws go to turkey dinner. We'll give 'em a belly full.
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'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : If I even knew a dame called Myrtle, I'd kick her teeth out.
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[repeated line]
'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : Who, me?
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'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : [to Morgan] Say, listen. Don't let the guys know you've gone straight. They used to have a lot of respect for you.
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'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt : How's all the dames outside? See my initials carved on many bed posts?