Fly Away Baby (1937)
Barton MacLane: Steve McBride
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Quotes
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Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : Why don't you stop trying to be a detective?
Torchy Blane : [Sassily] Why don't you start?
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Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : Very good, Torchy. Very logical. Very cockeyed!
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Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : Where's Torchy?
Detective Cohan : I don't know. She must have beat it.
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Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : Murder and marriage don't mix.
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Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : Mmm. I smell steak. There must be a restaurant around here.
Torchy Blane : You can smell a porter house further than any woman I know.
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Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : You can't sock a guy just because he's a heel.
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Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : Oh, Torchy, you're a nice kid and I'm sorry you didn't have a little better luck. But, running down criminals is a man's job. It takes a masculine mind with years of experience to crack these cases. Well, you just go back to your office and write a nice little story about what the women's clubs are doing to support world peace and I'll take you out for dinner.
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Desk Sergeant : What'll these women do next?
Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : What women?
Desk Sergeant : You know who I mean. What's her name? Your girlfriend, Miss Who's it, here? Torchy Blane.
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Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : Take care of yourself, you little idiot.
Torchy Blane : You too, you big roughneck.
[kiss]
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Policeman Announcing Miss Sayre : Croy's guilty and I hope he gets the chair.
Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : You must be crazy about him.
Policeman Announcing Miss Sayre : Well, nobody's going to cross me up and get away with it.
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Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : It would have been a cinch to smuggle these through the Customs. They wouldn't have *bothered* anyone on the world flight.
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Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : Dreyfus, find out when the next boat sails for Germany.
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Lucien 'Sonny' Croy : You can't arrest me, McBride. You haven't any authority.
Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : You'll change your mind after a couple of days in Frankfurt hoosegow.
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Sgt. Orville Gahagan : What is so rare as a day in June, Nature in tune, Nature in tune, Roses in bloom, And overhead, An awesome moon.
Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : All right, get going Longfellow.
Sgt. Orville Gahagan : Oh, what a day, what a day!
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Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : We might as well go out and eat.
Torchy Blane : Oh, I'm sorry. I haven't time.
Lt. Steve 'Skipper' McBride : You mean to say you're refusing a chance to eat?
Torchy Blane : Yes. I'll see you on the Zeppelin.