Animal Crackers (1930)
Edward Metcalfe: Police Inspector Hennessey
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Quotes
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Capt. Spaulding : [to Arabella and John] You know Conductor Hennessey, don't you?
Inspector Hennessey : Inspector.
Capt. Spaulding : Inspect her, yourself.
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Police Inspector Hennessey : [to the Professor] Why don't you go home?
Signor Emanuel Ravelli : He's got no home.
Police Inspector Hennessey : Go home and stay home.
[Claps the Professor on the shoulder]
Police Inspector Hennessey : Your poor old mother sits there...
[silverware begins falling from the Professor's sleeve]
Police Inspector Hennessey : Sits there, night after --
[more silverware falls]
Police Inspector Hennessey : night after night --
[more silverware falls]
Police Inspector Hennessey : waiting to hear your steps on the stairs.
Signor Emanuel Ravelli : Ain't got no stairs.
Police Inspector Hennessey : And I can see a little light burning in --
[more silverware falls]
Police Inspector Hennessey : burning in the window.
Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding : No you can't, the gas company turned it off.
Police Inspector Hennessey : What I'm telling you is for your own good.
[more silverware falls]
Police Inspector Hennessey : And if you listen to me --
[more silverware falls]
Police Inspector Hennessey : you can't go wrong...
[a massive amount of silverware falls at once with a huge crash]
Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding : This may go on for years.
Police Inspector Hennessey : Now, there's just one thing --
[still more silverware falls]
Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding : I can't understand what's delaying that coffee pot.
[the Professor moves his arm, and a coffee pot falls from his sleeve]
Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding : Where's the cream?
Police Inspector Hennessey : [indignant] Well, you certainly surprised me!
Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding : Me too, I thought he had more than that.