The Live Ghost (1934)
Walter Long: Captain
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Quotes
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Captain : Aye, Joe!
Joe - Bartender : Hello, Captain!
Captain : [nods and motions for Joe to "set me up with the usual beverage"]
Joe - Bartender : What's on your mind?
Captain : Oh, you know - - same ol' thing... I'm sailin' with the tide and I need a few more hands.
Joe - Bartender : [in a naive tone of cheerful encouragement, not having heard about the unpleasant reputation of the Captain's ship] Well, there's plenty of men here, willin' to ship.
Captain : Yeah, well, it seems like none o' these mugs wanna ride with me.
[turns to the gathering of rough-looking sea-dogs and addresses them as a group]
Captain : Hey, listen, boys!
Sailor : [glancing up contemptuously] What do you WANT?
Captain : [re-composing himself with an effort, since he instinctively feels offended at the sailor's lack of respect for an "authority figure", but feels that he still has to be nice to these guys - - initially, at least - - so that they'll be in a better mood to listen to him] Well, I'm sailin' with the tide, and I need a few more hands. Whaddaya say?
Sailor : [all the sailors murmur dissentingly and wave off the idea disapprovingly, shaking their heads] Naw - - nuthin' doin' on that ol' TUB O' YAWS!
Captain : [in a tone of innocent surprise and mild offense] Why, what's the matter with **her**?
Sailor : [in mild shock, as if the Captain wouldn't think of the "obvious and well-known" answer by this time, since the sailor and his buddies are so familiar with it] What's the MATTER with her? Why, she's 'AWWNT-TED! Ha!
Captain : [the other sailors murmer in disapproving confirmation, again shaking their heads dismissively]
[disgustedly]
Captain : All right, you MUGS - - when you run outta BEER MONEY, come and SEE ME... I'll be WAITIN' for ya!
Sailor : [the other sailors guffaw derisively] Yeah, well, you'll wait a LONG TIME...!
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Captain : If anybody ever mentions "ghost" to me again, I'll take his head and I'll twist around so that when he's walkin' north he'll be lookin' south! Do ya git me?
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Captain : Get for'ard.
Stanley : [starts to walk toward the rear door of the hold]
Captain : Heyyy - I said "FOR'ARD"!
Stanley : [turns to Ollie and leans over closer to him so Ollie can check on his forehead, thinking that the Captain is saying that something is wrong with it] What's the matter with it? Can you see anything?
Oliver : [lifts Stan's hat slightly to have a better look] There's nothing wrong with it that I can see.
Captain : [shoving them both forward impatiently] Oh, come ON, here! Come ON!
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Captain : Hey, were do you think you're going?
Drunken sailor : I'm goin' ashore. Like a lil' teensy-weensy...
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Captain : Say, what's a doll like you doin' in a joint like this?
Maisie the Vamp : Well, I was married to a sailor - and two years ago he left me flat.
Captain : Too bad.
Maisie the Vamp : Yeah, too bad if I ever catch up with him!
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Drunken sailor : [salutes drunkenly] Hi-ya, Captain!
Captain : [sternly] What's going on here?
Maisie the Vamp : [suddenly looks closely at the drunk sailor] Ohhhh --- my HUSband!
Drunken sailor : [affably] Dear ol' MAISIE!
Maisie the Vamp : Don't "Maisie" ME!
[wallops him with her furled umbrella, then pursues him across the deck]
Maisie the Vamp : I've waited for YOU all right!
[lands another whack on the sailor's head]
Maisie the Vamp : I'll see that you PAY for running out on me!
[furiously chases him off the ship, thus leaving the captain with even FEWER crew-members than he'd started with at the beginning of the movie]
