Public Hero Number 1 (1935)

Lionel Barrymore: Doctor Josiah Glass

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• Doctor Josiah Glass : She's a wonderful woman, Crane. She takes orders! I may marry her.

• Doctor Josiah Glass : Say, you don't happen to have 20 bucks on you?

  Jeff Crane : What for?

  Doctor Josiah Glass : With my surgical instruments, they're at the hotel bar.

  Jeff Crane : In hock?

  Doctor Josiah Glass : Oh, no-no, Mr. Crane. As collateral. You see, I leave my kit at the bar and then run up a bill. And if anyone wants an operation, why, the drinks are on him.

  [laughs] 

• Doctor Josiah Glass : [drunkenly]  I am going out into the storm to answer the cry of suffer and distress. McManus its on nights like this I realize the nobility of my profession. I serve humanity and you serve drinks. You may serve me a drink, McManus. On the house!

• Doctor Josiah Glass : He's all right now. He'll live. And for what? So some cop can fill him full of lead. I've saved seventeen of 'em. All but three of 'em are dead. And that's all I've done for nine years.

• Doctor Josiah Glass : Hey, put down that water pistol, before you hurt yourself.

  Jeff Crane : [holding a Tommy gun]  Put 'em up.

  Doctor Josiah Glass : Huh?

  Jeff Crane : Put 'em up!

  Doctor Josiah Glass : What is this? A double-cross?

• Doctor Josiah Glass : McManus, my cleaver.

  McManus the Bartender : Hello, Doc.

  [Hands him surgical tools] 

  Jeff Crane : There's your twenty dollars.

  McManus the Bartender : You the victim?

  Doctor Josiah Glass : [drunken slur]  No. I am going out into the storm to answer the cry of suffering and distress. McManus, it's on nights like this that I realize the novility of my profession. I serve humanity and you serve drinks. You may serve me a drink, McManus, on the house.

  Jeff Crane : You may not.

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Might as well. You won't get back on that road tonight. Am I right?

  [gesturing to drunk] 

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : He just washed in.

  Scottsdale Bar Drunk : [Drunken slur]  Crick overflowed the Sandswell bridge.

  Jeff Crane : We've got to get through.

  Doctor Josiah Glass : I'm on a case.

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : And two bottles to go.

  Scottsdale Bar Drunk : [Drunken slur]  Better wait till it stops raining. The bridge is under three feet of water.

  Doctor Josiah Glass : Water! Water ruins everything. Now if that bridge was under three feet of whiskey...