Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942)
Leon Errol: Uncle Matt Lindsay, Lord Basil Epping
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Quotes
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Lord Basil Epping : That's Diana!
Lady Ada Epping : And who is Diana?
Lord Basil Epping : Diana? Diana - it's a mythical name.
Lady Ada Epping : Oh, quite. Goddess of the chase, wasn't she?
Lord Basil Epping : It's the same one.
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Diana De Corro : You silly boy, I want to see you again.
Lord Basil Epping : Oh, you do, eh? Why?
Diana De Corro : You know.
Lord Basil Epping : Do I?
Diana De Corro : Of course. I thought we might take up where we left off New Year's Eve.
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Diana De Corro : Won't you sit down and join me?
Lord Basil Epping : Yes, I don't mind, do you?
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Lord Basil Epping : Sit down and bob your nose a bit.
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Uncle Matt Lindsay : Wait, I've got to leave.
Carmelita Lindsay : Well, if I don't practice now, what am I gonna learn my artificial perspiration?
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Artificial perspiration?
Carmelita Lindsay : Uh-Huh!
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Oh, we'll have to practice perspiring some other time.
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Uncle Matt Lindsay : I know we always pal around together, darling; but, this isn't just like going to a baseball game, this is war.
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Carmelita Lindsay : Listen, Uncle Matt, when I get to be real good, I'm gonna go to those Red X meetings.
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Yeah. Red X meetings?
Carmelita Lindsay : Sure!
Uncle Matt Lindsay : No, darling, you mean the Red Cross.
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Dennis Lindsay : Have a drink?
Diana De Corro : Oh, yes. I think I'll have a Pink Lady. Did you ever try one?
Lord Basil Epping : I beg your pardon.
Diana De Corro : Oh, you will just *love* a Pink Lady!
Lady Ada Epping : [Enters the bar with Aunt Della] Basil!
Lord Basil Epping : Yes, yes, yes.
Lady Ada Epping : Will you order us a drink, please.
Lord Basil Epping : Yes. Some Pink Women.
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Dennis Lindsay : Well, what do you say to have a little drink?
Lord Basil Epping : Volumes, my boy. Volumes.
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Aunt Della Lindsay : Dennis, don't you think you could give our show an international flavor if we had representative acts from all the United Nations?
Dennis Lindsay : Yeah, I guess so.
Aunt Della Lindsay : We have Russian dancers and a Cossack Choir from Russia and little Dutch girls in wooden shoe dances and Mrs. Brown saying she can get us a Chinese magician!
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Oh, Della, I almost forgot. I know where you can get some trained rabbits.
Aunt Della Lindsay : Rabbits? What country do they represent?
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Easter Island. - - Easter. Rabbits. Easter. - Forget it.
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Lord Basil Epping : Dear me, there's that huntress person.
Dennis Lindsay : Say, just who is she?
Lord Basil Epping : Oh, I'll be hanged if I know. You know how all those things happen.
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Reddy : So, you're the guy she's been carrying the torch for, huh?
Lord Basil Epping : Torch? Torch? What do you think I am? An arsonist?
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Reddy : Look, you're in a spot. Now, don't you come back here again empty handed. Go on. Beat it!
Lord Basil Epping : Huh?
Reddy : Beat it!
Lord Basil Epping : Beat an elephant? Oh, no. They'd never forget.
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Reddy : Now listen to me. I'm getting awfully tired of this. I'm telling you now for the last time. What I want is an elephant.
Lord Basil Epping : Oh, yes, yes. Get an elephant. Yes, yes. Lovely pets. I had a white elephant once.
Reddy : I'm not interested in your white elephant! I want a black and white one.
Lord Basil Epping : Black and white elephant? I should say that's a bit silly, don't you think? Aren't you confused with a zebra?
Diana De Corro : He's talking about the elephant you put in your trunk, Lord Epping!
Lord Basil Epping : Trunk? Elephant trunk? Oh! Rather good. I like that. That was spot on, that.
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Carmelita Lindsay : You know that blonde, who I catch with Dennis.
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Yes.
Carmelita Lindsay : Well, she's out there with her boyfriend.
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Oh, she's got a boyfriend.
Carmelita Lindsay : And how! And I heard him tell Lord Epping that if he didn't give him a little present, he was going to be something or else.
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Why, that sounds like blackmail.
Carmelita Lindsay : Male or female, it's still black.
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Carmelita Lindsay : Remember that time you put a goat face like Lord Epping and you look more like him than he does himself?
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Yes. Yes, that was your idea. But, I'll never do that again.
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Lord Basil Epping : Tell me, have you ever seen a black and white elephant?
Joe the Villa Luigi Bartender : No, I never seen a black and white elephant. But, I bet you've seen many a pink one with green spots.
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Joe the Villa Luigi Bartender : So, when the guy yells, "stick 'em up", I let him have it with a beer bottle.
Lord Basil Epping : Beer bottle?
Joe the Villa Luigi Bartender : Right on the coconut.
Lord Basil Epping : Beer and coconuts? Dear me, that's a frightful mixture.
Joe the Villa Luigi Bartender : After that, it was duck soup.
Lord Basil Epping : I thought you said it was beer and coconuts?
Joe the Villa Luigi Bartender : I mean after I knock the guy out, the rest was easy! The cops came in and put the handcuffs on him.
Lord Basil Epping : Yes. Handcuffs? Oh dear me, that reminds me, my wife is waiting for me.
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Carmelita Lindsay : Oh, why you little jigger bug, you.
Lord Basil Epping : What's this all for? What's this?
Carmelita Lindsay : Why, lovey-dovey, you know, you know.
Lord Basil Epping : I know?
Carmelita Lindsay : Sure! Sure.
[to Reddy]
Carmelita Lindsay : You don't mind if we mush a little, do you?
Reddy : I don't care what you do!
Carmelita Lindsay : Well, I'm glad because we both crazy about each other, ain't we?
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Luigi : My friend, in one more second, you are going to be bounce.
Lord Basil Epping : I beg your pardon.
Luigi : I am going to bounce you!
Lord Basil Epping : Bounce?
Luigi : Were you ever bounce before?
Lord Basil Epping : Oh, yes! Yes, yes, yes. Yes, my mother used to bounce me on her knee when I was a baby.
[singing]
Lord Basil Epping : Riding a horse...
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Uncle Matt Lindsay : What do you expect me to do? Punch myself in the nose, Sugar Puss?