Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)

Barton MacLane: Steve McBride

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• Steve McBride : [to Maxie]  If you get her to keep on makin' these passes at Dolan, do it yourself or get someone else. I wanna go to a wedding, not a funeral.

• Torchy Blane : You think they might tie a can to you, Steve?

  Steve McBride : Why certainly, they might. Awh, it's not just myself I'm thinkin' about. I've gotta consider which side our bread is buttered on - yours as well as mine.

  Torchy Blane : Oh, no, you don't, now. Not OUR bread, not until the rice begins to fly. Until then, I have my own slice to butter.

• Steve McBride : [In a self-deprecating way]  A fool there was, and here he is!

• Steve McBride : All right, as long as I'm going to marry her, why don't you put somebody else on the case.

  Dr. Dolan : That's just what we won't do. You're gonna stick on the job and pump Torchy to find out what she knows and where she's getting her information.

• Captain McTavish : What about that cigarette paper, Steve?

  Steve McBride : Well, a cigarette paper might spell Chuck Ball and Chuck Ball might spell Torchy.

• Steve McBride : If she's got that little red book, she's a dead pigeon.

• Steve McBride : Sit down.

  Torchy Blane : Well, is this the masterful lover or the third degree?

• Steve McBride : That's what you get for tryin' to marry a jumpin' jack!

  Waitress : What's the matter with that?