The Spoilers (1942)

Marlene Dietrich: Cherry Malotte

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Quotes 

• Cherry Malotte : We'll have no brawls here, gentlemen, unless they're over me.

• Cherry Malotte : Was anybody hurt?

  Idabelle : Whoever heard tell 'em of a shootin' when nobody was hurt? They don't go pointin' a gun at somebody unless they figures to hit 'em, does they?

• Cherry Malotte : If it's action you boys want, the game's open. The roof's the limit. But, if you're really playful, I'll take that off too.

• Cherry Malotte : Darling, get a bottle of brandy and a dozen hard boiled eggs.

  Idabelle : Better get a dozen bottles of brandy and one egg, Miss Cherry. Eggs is scarcer than watermelons around here.

• Helen Chester : I'm sure you'll be glad to know that law and order has come to Nome, Miss Malotte.

  Cherry Malotte : Yes. It'll be so much easier on the boys if the girls have to turn in their guns.

• Idabelle : Miss Cherry, you shore looks like the kind of medicine good for what ails a man!

  Cherry Malotte : All we need then is the man, eh?

  Idabelle : If you's referring to me, Miss Cherry, they shore is an absence of good, solid color in this here country!

  Cherry Malotte : No chance of choosin', Idabelle?

  Idabelle : No. No pickin' neither!

• Alex McNamara : It's a fair gamble, especially if the house will take off the limit.

  Cherry Malotte : There's no limit here. Anything you can win, you can collect.

• Alex McNamara : You promised to show me around, remember?

  Cherry Malotte : I haven't forgotten. Some other time.

• Cherry Malotte : A woman doesn't run out on a man she loves. She sticks with him! Win or lose!

• Cherry Malotte : Idabelle where are you?

  Idabelle : Here I is, Miss Cherry. Here I is!

  Cherry Malotte : What are you doing with that dress?

  Idabelle : Oh, I just smoothin' it out a bit. I heard that loudmouth baboon yellin' that the boat was in. I figured y'all wanted to meet him in style.

• Cherry Malotte : Now that we're old friends, you may call me Miss Malotte - if you'd rather.

  Alex McNamara : Still running cold. When comes the thaw?

  Cherry Malotte : It's more fun this way.

• Glennister : Well ol' timer... you were right. We're gonna do it your way.

  Al Dextry : Well... now you're talkin'!

  [shaking hands vigorously] 

  Cherry Malotte : Wait a minute. You two are planning to dynamite yourself into a mess. I won't let you do it! I could get about four thousand together, that should be enough.

  Glennister : We got a good sized poke of our own, why should we cut into yours? C'mon Dex!

  [leaving, pauses in the doorway and turns back to Cherry] 

  Glennister : But that was a nice thought, Sport. Thanks for now, and I'll be back later to put some lace on it.

  Cherry Malotte : [worried]  What do think they'll do, Bronco?

  Bronco Kid Farrow : If it was my dough they were holding in that bank, I know what I'd do.

• Cherry Malotte : [Awaiting the judge in Glennister and Dextry's hearing]  Now that we are old friends you may call me Miss Malotte... if you'd rather.

  Alex McNamara : Still running cold! When comes the thaw?

  Cherry Malotte : It's more fun this way. Besides, the line forms in back of the Bronco Kid. Mr. Farrow... Mr. McNamara.

  Alex McNamara : Hiya, Farrow.

  [Eyes the Bronco Kid whittling a matchstick with a switchblade knife] 

  Alex McNamara : Something you got for Christmas?

  Bronco Kid Farrow : Yeah, I always carry it. I never know when I'm gonna run into a piece'a cheese.