The Roaring Twenties (1939)

Gladys George: Panama Smith

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• [last lines] 

  Panama Smith : He's dead.

  Cop : Well, who is this guy?

  Panama Smith : This is Eddie Bartlett.

  Cop : Well, how're you hooked up with him?

  Panama Smith : I could never figure it out.

  Cop : What was his business?

  Panama Smith : He used to be a big shot.

• Eddie Bartlett : I trust my friends.

  [Walks off] 

  George Halley : That guys a sucker. I don't trust any of my friends.

  Panama Smith : The feeling's mutual, George. They don't trust you either.

• Panama Smith : I think you're a pretty decent guy. I like to talk to decent guys. They're hard to find.

• Panama Smith : I'm sick of watching you try to put out that torch you carry for her with a lot of cheap hooch. Who does the kid look like?

  Eddie Bartlett : Like her.

  Panama Smith : And they got a nice house.

  Eddie Bartlett : Yeah, it's a nice house if you like that kind of a house, but for me, uh, I'll take a hotel anytime. You know that.

  Panama Smith : Me too. Ain't it funny how our tastes have always run the same? Ever since the first time we met. I can just picture you living in the suburbs, working in a garden, raising flowers and kids. Wouldn't that be a laugh.

  Eddie Bartlett : Yeah, wouldn't I look cute?

• [after a shootout in the club, all the patrons run out in a panic and as the bodies are being carried out] 

  Eddie Bartlett : Where you going

  Panama Smith : I'm looking for some excitement. There's a lull in the action

• Henderson : [talking about Jean and Eddie]  She seems like a nice kid. I hope she can out-talk him.

  Panama Smith : I hope she can outrun him.

• Panama Smith : Things have been pretty tough, haven't they?

  Eddie Bartlett : They could be tougher. A guy in the cell with me was talkin' about bumpin' himself off. Until I get around to that, I'm doin' all right.

• Eddie Bartlett : Say, what's your angle, sister? What bank do you want me to stick up? Who do you want killed? And which do you want done first?

  Panama Smith : First, let's have a drink.

• Panama Smith : What's this kid got on you?

  Eddie Bartlett : Oh, I don't know. Whatever it takes to get a guy like me, she's got.

• Panama Smith : I've never seen you like this before. You act like a kid who's going to try on his first pair of long pants.

• Panama Smith : You might be moving too fast. Sometimes you get over these things and - you're sorry.

  Eddie Bartlett : I don't think I'll ever get over this.

  Panama Smith : You're batting out of your league, buster. You're used to traveling around with - dames like me. You sure got it bad.

• Eddie Bartlett : I trust my friends.

  [exits] 

  George Halley : You know, he's a sucker. I don't trust mine.

  Panama Smith : It's mutual, chump. They don't trust you, either.

• Panama Smith : I'm sick of watching you try to put out that torch you carry for her with a lot of cheap hooch.