The Petrified Forest (1936)

Dick Foran: Boze Hertzlinger

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Quotes 

• Duke Mantee : Jackie, turn on that radio in back of ya'.

  [Jackie turns on the radio] 

  Gramp Maple : What'd I tell ya'? Look at that chin. He's a killer, all right. We're lucky we got ringside seats.

  Boze Hertzlinger : [contemptuously]  He's a gangster and a rat.

  Gramp Maple : He ain't no gangster! He's a real old-time desperado. Gangsters is foreigners, and he's an American. Wait 'til the sheriff finds out he's here. and We'll see some *real* killing. Won't we, Duke?

  Duke Mantee : The cops ain't likely to catch up with us. Not tonight. So we can all be quiet and peaceable and have a few beers together, and listen to the music. And not make any wrong moves. 'Cause I may as well tell you folks that old Ruby there, with the gun, he's pretty nervous and jumpy. He's got the itch between his fingers. So let's everybody stay where they are.

  Alan Squier : Let there be killing. All this evening, I've had a feeling of destiny closing in. Do you believe in astrology?

  Duke Mantee : I couldn't say, pal.

  Alan Squier : Well, I don't normally. But tonight, as I was walking along that road, I.. I began to feel the enchantment of this desert. I looked up at the sky, and the stars seemed to be mocking me, reproving me. They were pointing the way to that gleaming sign and saying, "There's the end of your tether. You thought you could escape and skip off to the Phoenix Palace, but we know better." That's what the stars told me. For perhaps they know that carnage is imminent, and that I'm due to be among the fallen... Ha ha, fascinating thought.

  Duke Mantee : Let's skip it. Here's happy days.

  [raises his glass of beer in a toast] 

  Gramp Maple : Yes, sir. Certainly does feel great to have a *real* killer around here again.

  Alan Squier : Yes, it's pleasant to be back again.. amongst the living. Hooray!

  [raises his glass to Duke Mantee in a toast]