Free and Easy (1931)

Charlie McCarthy: Charlie McCarthy

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Quotes 

• Kamisha, the Gypsy : Kamisha will help you. I am Kamisha.

  Charlie McCarthy : Come again?

  Kamisha, the Gypsy : No, no, no. Kamisha. That means, in the gypsy language, "open eye."

  Charlie McCarthy : Oh, yeah. Well, my name is Charlie McCarthy. In the Irish language, that means, Charlie McCarthy.

• Kamisha, the Gypsy : I like you very much.

  Charlie McCarthy : You know, I think I have a gypsy blood in me too.

  Kamisha, the Gypsy : Yes?

  Charlie McCarthy : Yes. It's either that or - goat's milk.

• Cecil, a hobo : Are you going swimming now?

  Charlie McCarthy : Yes.

  Professor : Oh, yes. Yes. You see, we want to avoid the cop who chased us off yesterday.

  Charlie McCarthy : Yeah.

  Professor : He told us we weren't allowed to swim in the reservoir because the city used it for drinking water.

  Charlie McCarthy : Well, they can't drink all of it. Can they?

  Professor : No.

  Cecil, a hobo : A bunch of high-tone cranks.

  Charlie McCarthy : Yeah. Well, just so they leave enough for us to bathe in.

• [first lines] 

  Sylvester, a hobo : Hey professor, whatd'ya say to a game of auction bridge?

  Professor : No, count me out Sylvester. I'm going to take a swim down at the city reservoir.

  Charlie McCarthy : Yeah, me too. I'm going to do my standing, sitting, squatting swan dive.

• Cecil, a hobo : I hear the stocks dropped three points today.

  Professor : You don't say? Isn't that too bad. Are we lucky fellas? Ah, this is the life! This is the life that gets you.

  Charlie McCarthy : Yeah. Yeah, but, it gets you nowhere.

• Professor : [referring to the fire that they're laying next to]  You know, looking at the glowing embers is like gazing at a crystal; all sorts of weird images parade before my eyes.

  Charlie McCarthy : Uh huh.

  [obviously hungry] 

  Charlie McCarthy : You don't see any hot dogs, do you?

  Professor : No, no.

• Professor : [while seeing a gypsy]  Shh, sh-she's going into a trance; many strange things may appear before our eyes.

  Charlie McCarthy : [obviously hungry]  Yeah, no chance of a small steak showing up?

  Professor : No.

• Professor : What's the matter?

  Charlie McCarthy : [after having just seen a spirit]  Oh, uh, did you see it?

  Professor : No. Shh, I'm seeing things here.

  [gazing at the gypsy's crystal ball] 

  Charlie McCarthy : Uh, 'you're' seeing things?

  Professor : Yes.

  Charlie McCarthy : You ain't seen nothing yet. I think Herbie's here.

  Professor : Well you talk to him, I'm mad at him.

  Charlie McCarthy : I don't want to pick a bone with him.

  Kamisha, the Gypsy : Ah, we have a spirit here.

  Charlie McCarthy : You're telling me?

  Professor : Is it brother Herbie?

  Charlie McCarthy : Well if it is, he's been on a diet.

  [seeing as the spirit resembled a skeleton] 

• Charlie McCarthy : [referring to the dead Herbie Larkin's money that he is trying to swindle]  Uncle Herbie, oh Herbie, yoo-hoo? If there's something you want to give me, I'll be glad to get it.

  [the levitating desk lid humorously whaps him on the head via the anger of the spirit] 

• [last lines] 

  Charlie McCarthy : [riding in a train boxcar with the other hobos as they sing]  Well well, cheer up professor. We've been chased out of better towns than this.

  Professor : Heh, I suppose so. Well eh, where to now Mr. McCarthy?

  Charlie McCarthy : Let me see... shall it be uh, The Royal Poinciana at uh, Palm Beach? Or uh, Sloppy Joe's, huh?

  Professor : Heh, yes.

  Charlie McCarthy : Hyahaha. Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my.

  [the scene fades out as a scribbled note on the side of the boxcar reads 'Charlie McCarthy going south']