Clipped Wings (1953)

Bernard Gorcey: Louie Dumbrowsky

Quotes 

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Don't get excited, now. We gotta go about this thing in a regular perspectus of the law.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : If they harm one hair on Dave's head, they have to answer to me. Whatever they do to Dave, they have to do to me!

  Louie Dumbrowsky : But, Sach, if David is found guilty, they'll stand him up against a wall and shoot him.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Well, I guess Dave's in this thing alone.

• Louie Dumbrowsky : Tell me the truth, Slip. How did you escape?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Escape? Louie, you don't escape from the guard house. Dhat would be perjury. I just stood on my indelible rights and I told fellas a piece of thing or two, so they opened the doors and let me out. What else could they do?

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : I want cha to keep both chore feet confirmly planted on terra cottage.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Oh. no, oh no. After a crack-up like that, I must go right back up in the air. It says so in my flying lessons.

  Louie Dumbrowsky : [nearly choking on his cigar]  Did you say you were taking flying lessons?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Don't pay any attention to him, Louie. I think dhe ride in that whirly-gig is infected the corregations of his brain shells.