Mr. Wise Guy (1942)
David Gorcey: Peewee
Quotes
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Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : I know what you are! You're a premeditated killer!
Knobby : I never killed nobody! I'm a bank robber!
Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Bank robber? Well, of course that ain't so bad.
Peewee : You gonna hang by the neck until dead!
Knobby : I don't hang around no place!
Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Why don't you confess and save all this confusion?
Knobby : There's no confusion... confessing! I know my rights! I'm an American citizen!
Glimpy Stone : Did you ever vote?
Knobby : No! Who's running?
Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : You didn't vote, you're not an American! You're a man without a country!
Knobby : I am too! I live in Brooklyn!
Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Well, that's the same thing!
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[first lines]
Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Now, listen. You're kinda new in dis neighborhood, so I'm gonna wise ya up. I'm Muggs McGinnis, the leader of this gang. Now if ya wanna take any of these boys out, ya gotta have 'em in by t'ree o'clock in the afternoon, and no smokin', drinkin' or hopscotch because we're all in trainin'. Now I'm gonna introduce you to the fellas in their physical order: This is Danny, my left-hand man.
Danny Collins : How do you do?
Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : This is Glimpy, my right-hand man.
Glimpy Stone : Hello, Matilda.
Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Peewee, my yes man.
Peewee : Hi ya.
Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : And Skinny, my no man.
Skinny : Hi.
Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : And last but not least there's Scruno. He's our blackout warden.
Scruno : Hi.