Quotes
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Tommy Chan : If you're stuck, I'll help you out.
Charlie Chan : You are like business end of water spout - always running off at mouth.
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Tommy Chan : Mrs. Hargue, maybe you've been to Smyrna, too?
Mrs. Hargue, Housekeeper : Spent two months there once. A very dull place where nothing ever happens excepting when it rains.
Tommy Chan : And then what happened?
Mrs. Hargue, Housekeeper : [laconically] It rains.
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Charlie Chan : Very strange woman, Mrs. Hargue.
Tommy Chan : Yeah, Pop. She's strictly icky, right off the cob and way off the beam.
Charlie Chan : Could possibly speak English?
Iris Chan : He means she's a slick chick gone to seed, Pop. She got bats in her head and bees in her bustle.
Charlie Chan : Language sound very strange to elderly ears.
Tommy Chan : Sure, Pop, but we're hepcats of the younger generation. You're Confucius and I'm Confucius Junior.
Charlie Chan : Conficius Junior... Please, go.
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Charlie Chan : You told to remain in hall!
Tommy Chan : We were upstairs looking for clues, Pop.
Charlie Chan : Looking for clues upstairs while murderer downstairs shooting at honorable parent.
Tommy Chan : Gosh, did they kill you, Pop?
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Birmingham Brown : You think if I'd asked your father to let me go home he'd let me?
Tommy Chan : What you want to go home for?
Birmingham Brown : I forgot something!
Tommy Chan : What'd you forget?
Birmingham Brown : I forgot to stay there.
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Charlie Chan : The trouble with modern children is that they do not smart in right place.
Tommy Chan : Did Confucius say that, Pop?
Charlie Chan : No, I say that!
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Tommy Chan : Gee, I'm sleepy.
Birmingham Brown : Me, too.
Iris Chan : Then lie down somewhere. I'll wake you when the next corpse shows up.
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Tommy Chan : Hey, Pop.
Charlie Chan : Quiet. Detective at work.