Big Brown Eyes (1936)

Douglas Fowley: Benny Battle

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• Barber : Well, well, Danny, what's the matter? Don't see you for a long time.

  Benny Battle : Well, they had me downtown for two weeks on a bum rap.

  Eve Fallon : Oh, poor kid! They blame you everything, don't they?

  Benny Battle : You sait it, Beautiful! The way the coppers treat me, you'd think I was a thief.

  Eve Fallon : Yeah! Police get some funny ideas sometimes.

  Benny Battle : Don't they though? And me as honest as the day is long.

  Benny Battle : Yeah, but how 'bout the nights?

  Benny Battle : The nights too! I'm the soul of honesty.

  Eve Fallon : You sure you don't mean 'the heel?'

• Benny Battle : [In barber shop running his hand on the back of manicurist Eve Fallon]  Eeny, meanie, mynie, mo. I'll take this one.

  Eve Fallon : Oh, so you're the guy who ran his thumb down my back.

  Benny Battle : Your truly, Benjamin Battle! How's it, Babe?

  Eve Fallon : How's it yourself?... I knew it was you. I know the feel of your fingerprints.

  Benny Battle : Ouch! Never say 'fingerprints' when I'm around. It gives me a sickly feeling.

  Eve Fallon : Yeah, I'd have a nasty answer for that if I wasn't workin' here. What can I do for you?

  Benny Battle : Oh, give me a manicure, but don't rush it. I'd like you to hold my hands.

  Eve Fallon : Oh! Too bad I can't work with my gloves.

• Benny Battle : [at the barber shop]  Every time I turn around I see another bull.

  Benny Battle : [Danny emerges from under a towel in the next chair]  Well, if it isn't Daniel Barr, the handsome dick.

  Danny Barr : Gettin' yourself dolled up?

  Danny Barr : Yeah, there's nuttin' like spendin' a half hour in a barber shop that makes a new man out of ya.

  Danny Barr : When did ya get out outta the can?

  Benny Battle : About an hour ago, thanks to the habby-us corpus.

  Danny Barr : Yeah, and that shyster lawyer of yours.

  Benny Battle : I wouldn't talk like that. Ya might get pinched for slander.

  Eve Fallon : Yeah, and don't carry any matches; they're liable to charge you with arson.

  Benny Battle : Hey, Chalkie, get me a pineapple soda. Get me a big lump of whipped cream on it, and a nice red cherry. How's it, babe?

  Danny Barr : How d'ya like that chair?

  Benny Battle : I like it, 'specially when I'm tired.

  Danny Barr : Well, there's one upstate looks just like it. Ya wouldn't care for that one would ya?

  Benny Battle : No thanks. I'm not that tired.

• Benny Battle : You got a kind face.

  Police Desk Sergeant : Yes, you got a kind face too. It's the kind I don't like.

• Eve Fallon : I knew it was you. I know the feel of your fingerprints.

  Benny Battle : Ouch! Never say fingerprints when I'm around. It gives me a sickly feeling.

• Benny Battle : Don't they know? And me, as honest as the day is long.

  Eve Fallon : Yeah, but how about the nights?