Hell Below (1933)

Jimmy Durante: 'Ptomaine' - Ships Cook

Quotes 

• Ptomaine : [Commenting on a large-nosed Italian girl]  Mack, I don't care what you say. I'm not going out with her!

  Mac Dougal - Chief Torpedo Man : Why, there's nothing wrong with her. She's got a mighty trim little hull.

  Ptomaine : But I can't see past her bowsprit!

  Mac Dougal - Chief Torpedo Man : Well, maybe she's built for speed?

• Ptomaine : [looking at a plus-sized Italian girl on a boat]  What big eyes you have, Grandma!

• Buck Teeth Sergeant : What's that lump on your face, Yank?

  Ptomaine : Bunker Hill. You want to climb it?

  Buck Teeth Sergeant : Well, I don't see no steps.

• Seaman Muller : [in response to Ptomaine belching loudly]  You drinking orange extract already?

  Ptomaine : Are you casting insinuations and aspersions?

  Seaman Muller : It's mighty funny - every time you belch you smell like a wedding.

  Ptomaine : Swine... and I thought we were one happy family.