Adventure (1945)

Clark Gable: Harry Patterson

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Quotes 

• Harry Patterson : Are you washing again?

  Mudgin : Oh, hello, Harry. Kinda covets a man to scoop up some sea water that's full of the sins of the world, and put soap in it.

  Harry Patterson : You got sin on the brain.

  Mudgin : Well, it's be hard to explain to you, Harry, but a man sure feels dirty after he's been in port and done the things I done.

• Harry Patterson : There ain't a dame I can't forget in six months.

• Harry Patterson : Why didn't you keep that kid on the farm?

  Old Ramon Estado : The sea is a good school also, is it not?

  Harry Patterson : Oh, yes, swell, grandpa. We turn out some awful smart seagulls and sharks.

• Redhead in Frisco Bar : [after kissing Harry and getting no reaction]  What's the matter with handsome tonight?

  Gus : I don't know. He don't like blondes and he don't like brunettes.

  Redhead in Frisco Bar : [to Harry]  Well, why don't you settle for me then, big boy?

  Harry Patterson : You're a nice redhead. But, I'm lookin' for a dame with green hair and purple eyes.

• Harry Patterson : Where's Lucille? Don't she work here anymore?

  Clerk : No. She had tough luck. She fell down the stairs the other night and broke her leg. I got her address here some place. Do you want it?

  Harry Patterson : Not with a broken leg, I don't!

• Mudgin : Look it, Harry. "Reading maketh a full man," it says.

  Harry Patterson : Full of what? Full of sap from the tree of knowledge. And what grows on trees? Dried prunes. And what do you get from sap and prunes?

• Emily Sears : Are you having a good time?

  Harry Patterson : Rotten.

  Emily Sears : This is no fun.

  Harry Patterson : No, it isn't. Kidding you gets me nothin', sister.

  Emily Sears : What do you want?

  Harry Patterson : Yeah, what do I want. That's it.

  Emily Sears : What's it?

  Harry Patterson : Just - it.

  Emily Sears : Can I go now?

  Harry Patterson : Sure. You can go.

• Harry Patterson : That's what I'm lookin' for. It's it, ain't it?

  Emily Sears : It's it, ain't it. Some word, "it." In the dictionary it breaks all records for usage. A personal pronoun of the third person. A neuter gender. Used as a substitute for a noun. Or, representing something possessing sex when sex is not particularized or considered. Or, to refer to some matter not definitely conceived. Or, as the grammatical subject of a clause, such as, "It is believed he is dead." "He is dead is he is generally believed" - you can't smoke in here!

• Harry Patterson : [sees Helen walking into the library]  Oh, boy, how you don't fit in here!

  Helen Melohn : [to Emily]  A friend of yours?

  Emily Sears : No!

  Helen Melohn : Why don't I fit in here?

  Harry Patterson : In this graveyard? Why, you're a lark. There's a song in your eyes and they're lit with livin'.

  Helen Melohn : Mister!

  Harry Patterson : Everybody dyin' on the vine and - wham-bo - in comes the grapes!

  Emily Sears : Shh!

  Harry Patterson : Shh! Shh!

• Harry Patterson : Are you gonna help her?

  Helen Melohn : Yes.

  Harry Patterson : Do you want me to help you so you can help her?

• Harry Patterson : Did you girls ever take a bath?

  Helen Melohn : Huh?

  Harry Patterson : I mean, did you ever notice how the water runs out of the bathtub? How the water goes down the drain?

  Helen Melohn : No, I never did. I get right out of the bathtub. I don't like feeling wet.

  Harry Patterson : I thought maybe you might have sat there thinkin' once!

  Helen Melohn : Oh, no. I can't dry myself fast enough. But, Emily sits there. Till the water's all gone.

  Harry Patterson : Oh!

  [gives Emily the once over] 

  Harry Patterson : Is that so?

• Harry Patterson : Hi ya, boys. How ya doin'? I got a spare tomato for ya boys. This is Emily. Shake hands with Emily.

  Emily Sears : Hi ya, Gus! Hello! How are ya, good lookin'? Great little kidder, isn't he. I'm all warmed up and ready to take off. Any of you guys wanna buzz field?

  Gus , Limo , Model T : Sure!

  Emily Sears : Big boys go first. Open up the throttle, big boy. I fly on high octane!

  [dances with Gus] 

  Emily Sears : If any of you want to share the ride, just cut in.

• Harry Patterson : You know what I oughta do? I oughta go up there and take that dame apart. She's the freshest dame I've ever met!

• Helen Melohn : Oh! Who's gonna take a bath?

  Harry Patterson : Nah, no. No bath, honey. A scientific experiment. Come here. Bend over.

• Harry Patterson : Let me have a look at the back of your neck.

  Helen Melohn : Is this a booby trap or something?

• Harry Patterson : A good crack on the jaw, 'd do you good.

  Emily Sears : If that would do it, I'd love it! I'd love to look up to a man; but, I don't think you hit hard enough!

• Harry Patterson : The sea sounds like it. She does the talking, you do the listening. She sings out there. She's full of bands. And if I picked on you to talk to, it's because of the ocean in your eyes, that done it. I never saw it in no eyes before. And I'll call it a day too.

• Emily Sears : I'm high - and I haven't had a drop to drink. Are you high?

  Harry Patterson : Yeah. I'm blowin' about a force 9 gale.

  Emily Sears : Oh, you're not a gale, you're a tornado!

  Harry Patterson : Well, you're not exactly a low pressure area yourself.

• Harry Patterson : We're runnin' out of gas!

  Emily Sears : Oh, we've been running on gas, pal?

  Harry Patterson : Yeah and we're slowed down to 60.

  Emily Sears : Well, now that we've slowed down, couldn't you drive with one hand?

  Harry Patterson : Sure!

  Emily Sears : Thanks, sailor.

• Emily Sears : When I feel poetic, I feel poetic. Did you ever hear of Elizabeth Barrett Browning?

  Harry Patterson : Sure! Songs From the Portuguese.

  Emily Sears : Why, Harry!

  Harry Patterson : I heard it on a quiz program.

• Emily Sears : [to Mudgin]  You can start here. There's some excellent studies. There's one by a surgeon in the British Navy and this one by an American colonel, "Facts on Combat Fatigue."

  Harry Patterson : Combat Fatigue? Sounds good.

  Emily Sears : Yes, the strain of war, you know, sometimes causes psychoneurosis.

  Harry Patterson : Psychoneurosis? That sounds pretty good too!

• Emily Sears : I don't want to settle down. Not a niggles worth.

  Harry Patterson : Oh, you agree with me that marriage is a bunk, huh? There ain't nothin' between a man and a tomata - a woman.

• Emily Sears : I'm no more like Helen, no more like her than, than, the girl on your arm.

  [referring to Harry's tattoo] 

  Harry Patterson : Hey, you ain't jealous of her, are you?

  Emily Sears : No dear!

  Harry Patterson : Could be a little, pal. Especially a girl a guy carries around with him. I wouldn't like a guy painted on you starring at me, neither.

  Emily Sears : Wouldn't you, Harry?

  Harry Patterson : No, I wouldn't. Hey, how about this - suppose I stick you on the other arm?

  Emily Sears : Ha-ha-ha! No, thank you, darling.

• Harry Patterson : Yeah, yeah! You got that library look! You're screwy!

• Harry Patterson : I'm spittin' cotton. Hey, Nick, champagne! I want to get the bad taste of this mud scow outta my mouth.

• Harry Patterson : [to Maria]  Blow your perfume at me, pal. I'm sick of smellin' sailors!

• Harry Patterson : No children! No gardens! The only flower that grows in a garden is familiarity and they say it breeds contempt!

• Harry Patterson : You fall in love with a dame and she wants to plant trees in your heart - to shade a potato patch that she'll water with your blood.

• Emily Sears : I've been wondering what it'd be like to see you again.

  Harry Patterson : How is it?

  Emily Sears : Oh, it's - just - gay!

  Harry Patterson : What's that mean?

  Emily Sears : It doesn't hurt. And not to be hurt, hurts more.