Gangway (1937)

Barry MacKay: Bob Deering

Quotes 

• Assistant Commissioner : [on discovering that Bob has just inherited a title and an estate]  I shall be sorry to see you go, my boy.

  Bob : Go? You're not going to through me out just because I'm an earl! Oh, be reasonable, sir. I not only need my job, I want promotion to keep up the family ruins! Don't let me down now that I'm up in the world!

• Bob : I'll resign from the force and have the captain marry us.

  Pat Wayne : No, I can't let you marry a crime wave.

• Bob : What belter disguise for a crook than to be a film star. Nobody'd ever suspect them of anything - except bad acting.

• Bob : I don't think you're a crook after all.

  Pat Wayne : Stop talking shop.

  Bob : Who's talking shop? I'm making love to you.

• Assistant Commissioner : I've decided to let you go, my boy.

  Bob : Go? You're not going to throw me out just because I'm an earl. Oh, be reasonable, sir. I not only need the job, I want a promotion to keep up the family ruins. Don't let me down now that I'm up in the world.

• Smithers - Solicitor : You succeed to the title... and the estate.

  Bob : You can't get away with this, Smithers. You can't sneak up and drop that estate in my lap.

• Bob : I beg your pardon. I hope you don't think I'm following you.

  Pat Wayne : I can hardly think that so long as you're in front of me.

• Scotland Yard friend of Bob : When you left Oxford, the university's loss was Scotland Yard's - loss.

  Bob : Just Oxford's gift to the criminal classes.

• Smithers - Solicitor : You know how fond he was of driving at high speed?

  Bob : Mm hmm.

  Smithers - Solicitor : Well, he was turning a corner.

  Bob : Yes?

  Smithers - Solicitor : There was NO corner.