Boom Town (1940)
Claudette Colbert: Betsy Bartlett
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Quotes
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Big John McMasters : I'm not blaming you, maybe. But you aren't walking out with him or anybody else, understand?
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : Him? What are you...?
Big John McMasters : Sand. He told me all about it. I had to give him a licking to show him that's out. You're my girl, see? And you always will be. Even if I have to lick you to prove it.
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : I'm your girl. You can lick me if it'll help.
Big John McMasters : Well, I'll save it for when you need it.
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Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : I thought it was Galahad. Galahad in boots and a Stetson, come to rescue the fair Elaine from the dragons. Underneath you're just Modred, aren't you?
Big John McMasters : What do you mean, Modred?
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : Sir Modred! Of all the knights, he was the wicked one.
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Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : How's the chicken?
Big John McMasters : Don't order fried chicken, it's three-year-old jackrabbit.
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : Saved again from a fate worse than death.
Big John McMasters : Come on, Lena, tell her John McMasters is just a babe in the woods.
Lena, the waitress : I bring your soup, but don't go in no woods.
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Big John McMasters : What are you doing here, at that? Are you one of those lady drummers?
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : Oh, no. I'm much more important than that. If I like it here, I might open a shop.
Big John McMasters : What kind of a shop?
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : Lingerie.
Big John McMasters : Come again?
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : Underwear. Ladies' underwear.
Big John McMasters : Oh! Ladies' underwear? Well, I don't know. Now, you see... the girls in this town... Well, what I mean is there's not much call for...
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : You'd better order.
Big John McMasters : Yeah.
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Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : Say, this sounds very gay! What's in here?
Big John McMasters : No, you don't wanna go in there. That's just a dance hall.
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : A bad dance hall?
Big John McMasters : Well, no, but it's a place where fellas go on payday...
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : Have you been in there?
Big John McMasters : Well, sure, but...
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : Well, then, you can take me!
Big John McMasters : No, no, it's liable to be kind of rough.
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : Oh, now look, I'm not really Little Red Riding Hood. I came down here because I want to see if - Well, I want to see all the sights. Now, please.
Big John McMasters : Well, I'm agin it. So holler when you've had enough.
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Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : It looks like a church.
Big John McMasters : Sure. Used to be. Look. When the boom came, the congregation got excited and spudded in a wildcat right under the pulpit. Now there are churches all over the state spreading happy days and hallelujah - right out of these holes.
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : And ye shall rise out of the earth.
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Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : You go see the Murphy boys and you all sit around and lie a little bit to each other and have a good time, see? Only, just remember, you've got another wildcat waiting for you at home.
Big John McMasters : Oh, will I!
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Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : We'll go wildcatting, huh?
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Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : He's got his eye on a wildcat back in Oklahoma.
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Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : I feel just like a Swiss tunnel. Did you ever have to swallow a stomach pump?
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Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : You don't know how it is to love someone so much. When being in love like that is stopped it's worse than your breathing being stopped.
Jonathan Sand : Take it easy, honey.
Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : But it's true; because, if you stop breathing you're dead and you don't have to feel anymore, but when they stop your love, you're alive and you keep on feeling. Oh, Jonathan, it's horrible being in love like that.
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Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters : Everybody likes Big John, don't they?
Uncredited : Yes, ma'am. He's high test.