China Girl (1942)

Lynn Bari: Captain Fifi

Quotes 

• Johnny Williams : They fix you up?

  Captain Fifi : Yeah. Two rooms. One for me and one for you and the Major.

  Johnny Williams : We'll discuss that later. What'll you have?

  Captain Fifi : That looks nice.

  Bill Jones : Another Shark's Tooth, here.

  Shorty McGuire : Excuse me, Madam. We're talkin' business. Listen, Bugsy, look at it this way. You're an American. You're a flyer. And you're broke. Right? And you're in Mandalay. Right? You hate Japs. Okay! So, it all adds up, don't it? What do you say?

  Johnny Williams : I say I ain't joinin' any American volunteers in Burma, China, or anywhere else.

  Shorty McGuire : Give me one reason for such a statement.

  Johnny Williams : How do you like that? You got to give guys reasons around here for wanting to stay alive. Listen, Lafayette, when I die, I ain't dyin' for China. I'm dyin' for Johnny Williams. And I ain't even doin' that if there's an angle out.

• Bellboy : Cablegram, sir.

  Johnny Williams : Thanks. I'll see you later.

  [bellboy leaves, reads cablegram] 

  Johnny Williams : How do you like that.

  Captain Fifi : Bad news?

  Johnny Williams : The gallows.

• Captain Fifi : You can go on photographing.

  Johnny Williams : With what? There are three things a photographer's gotta have: genius, a camera, and an expense account. I'm down to only one.

• Johnny Williams : There's only one thing about a dame that's real.

  Captain Fifi : What's that?

  Johnny Williams : This.

  [kiss] 

• Johnny Williams : You look a little sad. You aren't homesick, are you?

  Captain Fifi : Homesick? For where?

  Johnny Williams : I don't know. Where you from?

  Captain Fifi : What does it matter?

• Johnny Williams : Ever been up in the Wang Go country?

  Captain Fifi : No.

  Johnny Williams : They get snakes up there with great big green eyes. Just like yours.

  Captain Fifi : I've done most of my crawling in warmer places.

  Johnny Williams : I like you.

  Captain Fifi : Snake fancier, huh?

  Johnny Williams : No, I like you because you're everything a woman should be: 115 pounds of crookedness and kisses with a laugh for a finish.

• Johnny Williams : How did the romance turn out?

  Johnny Williams : Flied out to center field.

  Captain Fifi : Ah, you hurt yourself. What a shame. Care to tell Mama about it?

  Johnny Williams : Next Tuesday. Mama got any cash on her?

  Captain Fifi : A little.

  Johnny Williams : I like a girl who's solvent. Waiter, a bottle of rum.

• Johnny Williams : The principal rule is no lectures. You start that, I walk out.

  Captain Fifi : Have it your way.

  [long kiss] 

• Captain Fifi : I don't know why; but, you're hotter than an stove lid.

• Captain Fifi : You can cut Mr. Williams up three ways and drown the pieces in the Yangtze River for all of me. That phony! All I'm waiting for is for somebody to wipe that smirk off his face.

• Captain Fifi : Come on, Johnny. Come with me. I'll be very nice. I'll never hang on. It'll be just a trip. A trip to New York. We'll look at a few things together and have some fun. When the money gives up. You can tip your hat and say goodbye.

• Captain Fifi : First I asked them to let you go. Then I said, well, just keep him in jail without shooting him. Then I said, if that's the way you feel, just let me kiss him goodbye for the last time. That's better than nothing, isn't it, darling?

  Major Bull Weed : You little liar! You couldn't wait for me to be ripped open, could you? You couldn't wait to hook up with one of those Jap monkeys.

  Captain Fifi : I've been crying for you all night and this is the way you treat me.

  Major Bull Weed : Get outta here! Go back to your Jap garbage were ya belong.