Public Hero Number 1 (1935)
Chester Morris: Jeff Crane
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Quotes
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Prison Warden : Crane, you were convicted of a hold up.
Jeff Crane : Sure! I stuck up a beer joint and got twelve bucks. Now, I'm buried alive for ten years. Ten years off my life for twelve dirty bucks! Is that fair?
Prison Warden : Yes. If your gun hadn't jammed you'd a killed a man for twelve dirty bucks. Was that fair?
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James Duff : I was beginning to figure you were the one wounded.
Jeff Crane : Aw, don't worry about me. I'm bulletproof. Black got it.
James Duff : Where is he?
Jeff Crane : Flop joint on the northside. 1721 Brady Street. Owned by a released convict. Mose Jones. A negro.
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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]
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Maria Theresa O'Reilly : You've got a swell laugh. Why don't you use it more?
Jeff Crane : Well, I don't get a chance to. They don't come so goofy as you very often.
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Jeff Crane : Take it easy! I lost my head.
Sonny Black : Well, I don't want guys with me that lose their heads, not over dames!
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Jeff Crane : I've got to hop off here, Terry. So long.
Maria Theresa O'Reilly : So long. Not too long, though.
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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?
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James Duff : So that's why we haven't turned up a clue for a month. Face alteration. He could be living right next door to us and we wouldn't know it.
Jeff Crane : He's probably living in some corner flop house, unless he's working.
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Jeff Crane : If he gives himself up and stands trial, he's got a chance. They've only got one murder charge against him. He killed a negro that was hiding us out on the northside. That negro had a gun in his hand. If he pleads self defense, the worst he'll get will be life imprisonment. Life or death, Terry. It's up to you. Tell me where he is.
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Train Conductor : How about it? Have you got a ticket?
Jeff Crane : Department of Justice. She's wanted for a job in the church. I'll take her off at the first stop.
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Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Let me out of here!
Train Conductor : No you don't, young lady.
[to Crane]
Train Conductor : Anything else I can do?
Jeff Crane : Yes, lock the door.
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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...
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Salesman on Bus Annoying Terry : I wish I had a Buick.
Maria Theresa O'Reilly : I wish I had a short length of pipe.
Jeff Crane : [pulls lever in car, hits Maria's legs]
Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Flirt!
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Jeff Crane : Because, when I get around to it, I'm gonna see a lot of you. And if I started in now, you might get tired of me by that time.
Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Well, that doesn't make sense. Besides, the demand's awfully big for me. I might get tied up.
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Jeff Crane : What's your name?
Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Maria Theresa O'Reilly.
Jeff Crane : [Nodding] Cook me some, too.
Maria Theresa O'Reilly : That's my name and I've had enough trouble with it from wise guys. My father was Irish and my mother was Italian and it's not my fault.