Little Caesar (1931)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.: Joe Massara

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• Caesar Enrico Bandello : [reading newspaper]  Underworld pays respects to Diamond Pete Montana.

  Joe Massara : Ah, what's that gotta do with the price of eggs?

• Joe Massara : I've got to hand it to you Rico. The old bean's workin' all the time.

• Caesar Enrico Bandello : [reading newspaper headline]  Underworld pays respect to Diamond Pete Montana.

  Joe Massara : What's that got to do with the price of eggs?

  Caesar Enrico Bandello : Plenty. Diamond Pete Montana. He don't have to waste his time on cheap gas stations. He's somebody. He's in the big town, doing things in a big way. And look at us. Just a couple of nobodies. Nothin'!

• Joe Massara : Yeah, there's money in the big town, all right. And the women. Good times, somethin' doin' all the time. Excitin' things, you know. Gee, the clothes I could wear.

• Caesar Enrico Bandello : You know, this was our last stand in this burg. We're pulling out.

  Joe Massara : Where are we going?

  Caesar Enrico Bandello : East. Where things break big!

• Joe Massara : You gotta get me out of this, Rico. You gotta! I don't want to - Well, don't you see, I'm working steady now, and - Can't a guy ever say he's through?

  Caesar Enrico Bandello : You're gonna be in on this, and you'll like it. The time is to be sharp midnight on New Year's Eve.

• Caesar Enrico Bandello : Dancing's all right for a sideline. It gives you a swell front. But it ain't my idea of a man's game.

  Joe Massara : What's the difference, Rico? As long as I ain't kicking, why should you kick?

  Caesar Enrico Bandello : Who's kicking?

• Joe Massara : You lay off Olga.

  Caesar Enrico Bandello : I ain't laying off. I'm after her! One of us has to lose, and it ain't gonna be me. There's ways of stopping that dame!

  Joe Massara : You're crazy. Leave her out of this!

  Caesar Enrico Bandello : She's through. She outta the way. That's what she is.

  Joe Massara : You're lying. You wouldn't dare!

  Caesar Enrico Bandello : I wouldn't, would I? I'll show you!

  Joe Massara : Rico, listen. I love her. We're in love with one another. Don't that mean nothing to you?

  Caesar Enrico Bandello : Nothing. Less than nothing. Love. Soft stuff! When she's got you, you ain't no good for anything.

• Caesar Enrico Bandello : We don't want no softies spilling things!

  Joe Massara : I won't spill anything, if you're scared of that. You think I want my neck stretched?

  Caesar Enrico Bandello : Well, you know too much. I ain't gonna take any chances. You're hanging around with me, see?

  Joe Massara : No, I'm not.

  Caesar Enrico Bandello : All right. You go back to that dame - and it's suicide. Suicide for both of you.

• Joe Massara : It's the rope for me.