The Cat and the Canary (1939)

Bob Hope: Wally Campbell

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• Cicily : It's awful spooky down here. Do you believe in reincarnation?

  Wally Campbell : Huh?

  Cicily : You know... that dead people come back?

  Wally Campbell : You mean like the Republicans?

• Cicily : Don't big empty houses scare you?

  Wally Campbell : Not me, I used to be in vaudeville.

• Wally Campbell : [to Joyce]  You know, what this party needs is more drinks and more laughs. I'll tell you, I'll bring a bottle of scotch from the dining room and we'll sit around here and drink scotch and make wry faces. Ha. You get it? Scotch and rye?

  [Joyce chuckles. Wally hands her the gun] 

  Wally Campbell : Here, I don't need a gun with jokes like that.

• Wally Campbell : [Wiscracking to his stoic Indian guide]  You seem like the jolly type, Clarence. D'yuh like jokes? You don't mind if I ramble on, do you? Keeps my mind off the malaria germs.

• Wally Campbell : [Telling a joke to his Indian guide]  A farmer had a cow, see, but he couldn't afford to feed it alfalfa so he fed it sawdust. He saved a lot of money alright, but he sure wasted plenty of time getting the splinters out of the milk. Ha, ha, ha, ha, Doesn't that just, uh... Splinters, milk. Don't you get it?

  Indian Guide : Hm. Heard it last year, Jack Benny program.

• Wally Campbell : I'm so scared, even my goose pimples have goose pimples.

• Miss Lu : There are spirits all around you.

  Wally Campbell : Well, could you put some in a glass with a little ice? I need it badly.

• Wally Campbell : Wait. My mother brought me up never to be caught twice in the same lady's bedroom.

• Cicily : I'm psychic. I was in a trance once.

  Wally Campbell : I know, I know. When are you coming out of it?

• Fred Blythe : I could use a drink.

  Wally Campbell : Yeah, I could too. Might as well be a live stiff as a dead stiff.