Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)

Tom Kennedy: Gahagan

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• Charles Gilbert : [after hearing Gahagan slurping his soup]  How did you find your soup?

  Gahagan : Oh, I just looked into the dish and there it was and it was swell.

  Torchy Blane : Hmm. So, I heard.

• Gahagan : [about his betting system]  Okay, I'll tell it to you, but yuh gotta keep mum.

  Torchy Blane : I'll be very secree-tive.

  Gahagan : I don't care about that, but yuh gotta keep it mum.

• Gahagan : [Introducing Torchy]  This is Torchy Blane of the Herald, Lt. McBride's finance.

• Tom Brennan : Have a cigar.

  Gahagan : Oh, thanks. "Colorado Cabaggio"

  Tom Brennan : "Colorado Cubana"

  Gahagan : Oh, yeah. My Greek ain't so hot. I'll smoke it a little later. Nothing like a good cigar. It reminds me of a poem I once wrote: "When your head is all a muddle, And noise is all ajar, And you got no one to cuddle, You'll get a joy in a cigar." Not bad!

  Tom Brennan : Well, not good.

  Gahagan : Yeah, but not bad.

• Marie - Gang Moll : You can't do this to me.

  Gahagan : How can I do what I ain't doin'?

• Gahagan : Swell guy, that Brennan.

  Steve McBride : What did he do kiss you?

  Gahagan : Huh?

  Police Captain McTavish : Say, where did you get that lipstick on your face?

  Gahagan : Lipstick? It must've come from that dame that kissed me.

  Steve McBride : Listen, Gahagan, when the Captain sends you on an important errand, you're not supposed to stop and play kissin' games.

  Gahagan : I didn't stop. And, anyway, it wasn't me she thought she was kissin'.

• Gahagan : I feel a poem comin' on: "Capt' McTavish is a Scotchman, McBride and me is Micks, If I tell Torchy one more thing, They'll send me to the sticks."

  [laughs] 

  Gahagan : Not bad, not bad.

• Gahagan : I'll tell you how it works. First, I concentrate. Sort of, go into a trance. Then I make me mind go blank.

  Torchy Blane : That should be very easy.

  Gahagan : Make my mind go blank? It's the easiest part of the system.

• Gahagan : Remember, keep my system to yourself. Only me and you and Steve know anything about it.

  Torchy Blane : Did you let Steve in on it?

  Gahagan : Oh, sure. But, you know Steve. I think the system is a little too much for his mental fatality.

• Tom Brennan : I'll smoke it later. Nothing like a good cigar after dinner.

  Gahagan : That's right. Reminds me of a poem...

  Tom Brennan : I heard it!

  Gahagan : That's right. You did.

• Torchy Blane : Gahagan, a light begins to glimmer in the gloom.

  Gahagan : What gloom glimmers where?

• Gahagan : Oh, Torchy!

  Torchy Blane : What's the matter?

  Gahagan : Oh, I feel a poem comin' on: "If my job I should lose, You can blame a dame, You can't blame booze, And I'll tell you where to put the blame, Upon the head of Torchy Blane."

• Gahagan : Gee, those Feds must be dumb dicks!

• Gahagan : [climbing over a gate]  I feel that somthin' is gonna happen to my pants.