Three Men on a Horse (1936)

Sam Levene: Patsy

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• Erwin Trowbridge : [after several drinks]  That's funny. I'm kinda sorta feeling a little sleepy.

  Patsy : What you need is a little drink to wake you up.

  [to Harry, the bartender] 

  Patsy : Harry, scotch for Erwin. He needs a pick-up.

  Harry, the Bartender : He'll need picking up, alright.

• Frankie : Gus went nuts! He thinks we were doping the horses with turpentine!

  Patsy : Depression is over! Look at all that money!

  Frankie : Ain't green is a restful color.

• Patsy : Listen, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

  Charlie : The horse's I've been playing for the last three weeks ain't had no mouths - at least from the view I got 'em.

• Patsy : Tell Mabel to wait when she comes.

• Patsy : Listen, baby. You've made the last trip to that joint.

  Mabel : Yeah. That's right, ain't it. Ain't got nothin' more to hock except the picture of Mama when she was a strip girl in burlesque.

  Patsy : Sugar, by tonight, you and me will be doin' it right in the most expensive joints in town.

• Patsy : We had a long talk, Erwin and I, and I'm convinced the guy's a genius.

  Charlie : He looks screwy to me.

  Patsy : Listen, don't you know there's only a fine line between bein' screwy and bein' a genius?

  Charlie : Yeah, I know it. But, does Erwin?

• Patsy : You can't go to the office like that. You're kinda stiff.

  Erwin Trowbridge : Oh, no! I'm limber enough. In fact, I'm a little too limber. That might be from drinkin' though, mightin' it?

  Harry, the Bartender : Yeah, that might be the explanation.

• Erwin Trowbridge : I gotta go. Mr. Carver will be most annoyed. He employs me.

  Charlie : Erwin! Do you want your boss to see you in that disgusting condition?

  Erwin Trowbridge : Oh, dear. Am I disgusting?

  Patsy : Revolting!

  Erwin Trowbridge : I'm sorry.

  Patsy : Aw, have another drink and forget it. None of us is purfect.

• Frankie : This is the happiest day of my life!

  Patsy : Listen, friends, everyday's going to be like this. Let Morgan keep Wall Street, just give me Erwin!

• Patsy : Listen to this: "Why was it that I chose to roam? Cross land and sea, so far from home. If that be life, my mutter dear, I send this card, of love and cheer. Mutter's Day, number 37." That touches ya, ya know that. Right here.

  Mabel : Yeah. Like seein' a good, sad movie, ain't it. Gee.

  Patsy : You know, this Erwin guy ain't bein' appreciated.

• Frankie : Read it, Patsy!

  Patsy : "At Christmas tide your hair was gray, But memories chased your cares away, Now lovingly in my simple way, I send you love on Mutter's Day. Mutter's Day, number 16."

  Harry, the Bartender : It sort of gets you, don't it.

  Patsy : And he done it just while he was sittin' there.

  Frankie : Weird, ain't it!

  Patsy : "At Christmas tide your hair was gray, But memories chased your cares away." - - That's literature!

• Patsy : Erwin, this is the little woman!

  Erwin Trowbridge : How do you do? Miss...

  Mabel : Just call me Mabel, Erwin. Any friend of Patsy's is a friend of mine.

  Patsy : I've often suspected that.

• Patsy : I don't care what you do to keep him here - up to a certain point.

  Mabel : You bet.

• Patsy : Say, what is this?

  Erwin Trowbridge : She's dizzy.

  Mabel : I'm dizzy, Patsy.

  Patsy : You must be to try and double-cross me. Get back to your room before I kick your teeth in!

• Patsy : Get back to your room before I do something a jury will hear about!

  Mabel : Gee, Patsy, I didn't think you'd ever talk to me like this.

  Patsy : You take a powder before I stop talkin' and start doin' somethin'!

• Patsy : Just like all them forward guys. A ladykiller, huh?

  Erwin Trowbridge : I assure you I have no lure for the opposite sex. Honest I haven't! Ask anybody. Ask my wife.

• Patsy : If you ever show your face around here again, you'll carry it out between two buns like a hamburger!

• Patsy : I didn't do a thing to her, but I should have. Can you imagine?

  Frankie : What?

  Patsy : And me thinkin' he was a sap!

  Frankie : She said she was just tryin' to be *nice* to him until you got back!

  Patsy : Nice, is right. It took three weeks and a diamond bracelet to get her that nice to me!

• Charlie : Aw, you can trust Mabel. I never could get nowheres with her.

  Patsy : What?

  Charlie : I mean if I tried.

• Patsy : [on the phone]  Yeah, Sugar. Yes, darling. Okay, Sugar. Yeah, Sugar.

• Patsy : There you are, pal. I had it made up special.

  [hands Erwin a tie] 

  Erwin Trowbridge : I thought perhaps you did. Maybe I better take one of your less expensive ones.

  Patsy : Put it on! Put it on! It tones you up a bit.

  Mabel : Yeah, like a Calliope!

• Patsy : [on the phone]  Sure we got a system; but, he ain't here now. We sent him out to get some air.

  Bookie : What's the guy like?

  Patsy : Like nuthin' I ever saw before! Personally, I think he broke out of a cuckoo clock.

  Bookie : A lot of these daffy guys have got second sight.