Some Like It Hot (1959)

George Raft: Spats Colombo

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• Spats Colombo : [to coin-flipping wise guy]  Where did you pick up that cheap trick?

• Joe : We won't breathe a word!

  Spats Colombo : You won't breathe nothin' - not even air.

• Spats Colombo : Hello, copper. What brings you to Miami?

  Mulligan : Heard you "opera lovers" were having a convention, so I thought I'd better be around in case anybody decided to sing.

• Spats Colombo : [when his speakeasy is raided]  What's the rap this time?

  Mulligan : Embalming people with coffee - 86 proof.

• Mulligan : Alright Spats, services are over, lets go

  Spats Colombo : Go where?

  Mulligan : A little country club we run for retired bootleggers. I'm puttin your name up for membership

  Spats Colombo : I dont join nothin'

  Mulligan : Ahh... you'll like it there, I'll get the prison tailor to fit you with a pair of special spats - striped!

  Spats Colombo : Big joke!

• Mulligan : You shave with your spats on?

  Spats Colombo : I sleep with my spats on.

• Little Bonaparte : I'm lookin' around for somebody to fill my shoes. I've been considerin' several candidates. For instance, there's a certain party from Chicago, South Side Chapter.

  [angrily] 

  Little Bonaparte : Now, some people say he's gotten a little too big for his spats!

  [calmly] 

  Little Bonaparte : But l say he's a man who'll go far.

  [angrily] 

  Little Bonaparte : Some people say he's gone too far!

  [calmly] 

  Little Bonaparte : But l say, you can't keep a good man down. Of course, he's still got a lot to learn. The big noise he made on St Valentine's Day, that wasn't very good for public relations. And lettin' them two witnesses get away. That sure was careless.

  Spats Colombo : Don't worry about those two. They're as good as dead. l almost caught up with them today.

  Little Bonaparte : You mean you let 'em get away twice? Some people would say that's real sloppy. But l say: to err is human, to forgive divine. And just to show you what l think of you, Spats, the boys told me you was gonna have a birthday. So we baked you a little cake.

• Spats Colombo : Oh, too bad, Charlie! You would've had three eights!