Watch the Birdie (1950)

Jeff York: Mr. Tirson

Quotes 

• Rusty Cammeron : Yes sir, what can I do for you?

  Mr. Tirson : I left my light meter here to be fixed, the name's Tirson.

  Rusty Cammeron : Tirson, yes sir.

  [goes behind the counter] 

  Rusty Cammeron : That'll be $5.00 even. Say, we're having a sale today, give you a nice trade-in on a new light meter.

  Mr. Tirson : Are you kidding? Brother, this is the sweetest little light meter in the business; only last week in the rain I grabbed a shot of a 5-star general. Easiest $100 I ever made in my life.

  Rusty Cammeron : $100 just for a little piece of film?

  Mr. Tirson : Sure, I'm a freelance newsreel cameraman.

  Rusty Cammeron : Oh?

  Mr. Tirson : They'll pay heavy for any hot footage.

  Rusty Cammeron : They will?

  Mr. Tirson : Well, I've sold 'em so much stuff that I'm going to take a nice 2 weeks vacation.

  Rusty Cammeron : [leaves the counter]  Hey, wait a minute! Are you, uh, taking your cameras with you?

  Mr. Tirson : This is a vacation.

  Rusty Cammeron : Oh, well our firm makes a special offer of air-conditioned storage space for cameras. It's moth-proof, rust-proof, and uh, burglar-proof.

  Mr. Tirson : No, I don't think I'd be interested.

  Rusty Cammeron : It's only 35 cents a week; for new customers, 35 cents for 2 weeks.

• Mr. Whittle : Oh, Mr. Cammeron?

  Rusty Cammeron : Hmm? Oh!

  Mr. Whittle : It's me again. Say, I hope you've got that $1,197. Now no hard feelings, but they made me bring the sheriff with me, he's out in the car.

  Rusty Cammeron : Well, you can tell him to stay in the car, I got the money in the cash register.

  [goes to the cash register] 

  Mr. Whittle : Well, I'll say.

  Rusty Cammeron : [pushes the register keys]  There you are, $1,197.

  Mr. Whittle : Well you don't know how pleased I am, Mr. Cammeron, now you've got nothing to worry about. Well, good luck.

  [Mr. Whittle leaves the store] 

  Rusty Cammeron : Goodbye, and I got $1,204.97 left.

  [goes to the phone, starts to dial while humming "The Wedding March"] 

  Rusty Cammeron : Hello, may I please speak to Miss Lucia Corlane?

  Mr. Tirson : [enters the store]  Hi, Mr. Cammeron. Now, here's your 35 cents, would you get my camera out of storage, please?

  Rusty Cammeron : Your camera? Oh, well Mr. Tirson, unfortunately I lost your camera. Will you take the one Pop has over there? It's not a newsreel camera, but it takes awfully good pictures.

  Mr. Tirson : Give me my camera or give me $1,200 in cash, or I call the police.

  Rusty Cammeron : Okay, give him the $1,200, Pop.

  [goes back to the phone] 

  Rusty Cammeron : Hello? No, I don't want to speak to Miss Corlane, I guess I was trying to call the wrong number.

  Mr. Tirson : [cash register opens]  Thank you boys, I've been trying to sell that camera for 6 months, ha ha ha ha!

  Pop Cammeron : Well, thank goodness it wasn't a total loss, we got 35¢ out of him.

  [chuckles] 

  Rusty Cammeron : [quietly to himself]  Yeah.

  Pop Cammeron : Well, I think I better go deposit this in the bank.

  [heads out the doorway, then turns to Rusty] 

  Pop Cammeron : Oh son, if any more customers come in, don't wait on them, because we can't afford to lose any more money.

  [chuckles, Rusty nods in agreement]