The French Line (1953)

Arthur Hunnicutt: 'Waco' Mosby

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• 'Waco' Mosby : A longs way back, Mary's Pa and me is in a crooked poker game down in El Paso.

  Reporter in Hotel Room : How did you know it was crooked?

  'Waco' Mosby : I was dealin'.

• 'Waco' Mosby : Well, I can just about tell you where he spent his money.

  Mary 'Mame' Carson : He's just naturally friendly.

  'Waco' Mosby : Well, look, he better not get naturally friendly around you. He's a genuine snake in the grass.

• 'Waco' Mosby : Well, by gosh and by glory, what are you hangin' around here for? You ought to be doin' somethin' about that.

  Mary 'Mame' Carson : Like what?

  'Waco' Mosby : Look, oil ain't the only thing you're rich in, girl. If I was that Phil Barton and hadn't seen hide nor hair of you in six weeks, I'd come stompin' through that door expectin' to see somebody dressed up like a jezebel in curls and all that stuff. Not with your tail bustin' out of a pair of saddle-worn Levis.

• 'Waco' Mosby : Do what your told for a change. Brides are supposed to look female!

• Mary 'Mame' Carson : Another day, another million dollars.

  'Waco' Mosby : Well, don't let it get you down, Mame.

• 'Waco' Mosby : Pour me a shot of Red-eye!

• 'Waco' Mosby : I've been a tolerable judge of character ever since I been old enough to suck whiskey from a jug.

• 'Waco' Mosby : You're doggone tootin'. We're goin' to Paris and we'll see new faces, meet new people. I hear they got a lot of fereigners over there.

  Mary 'Mame' Carson : Ah, what's the use. As soon as they find out who I am, they'll run like a jack rabbit or howl like a coyote.

  'Waco' Mosby : That's it! You just said it.

  Mary 'Mame' Carson : What?

  'Waco' Mosby : They won't know who you are.

  Mary 'Mame' Carson : I don't savvy?

  'Waco' Mosby : We'll go in cognito. We won't tell a soul who you are what you are. We'll sneak out of Texas like s rustler with the law snappin' at his backside.

• 'Waco' Mosby : Nobody will know you're a rich girl. You just be yourself.

  Mary 'Mame' Carson : Myself.

  'Waco' Mosby : Yeah! Just like any other girl out to nail some poor unsuspectin' - well, I mean, when you meet fellas it'll be you they'll be after, not your money, because they won't know you got any money. So, if anybody tries to stake a claim, you can bet its based on pure prospectin'.

• 'Waco' Mosby : I've been a tolerable judge of character ever since I set my milk teeth in my first plug of chewin' tobacco.

• 'Waco' Mosby : [toast]  Well, here's to mud and may it always be oily.

• 'Waco' Mosby : You goin' loco? Where's Phil?

  Mary 'Mame' Carson : The groom gave the bride back to the Indians.

  'Waco' Mosby : Where is he? Where is he?

  Mary 'Mame' Carson : Now, you can't send a posse out after him.

• 'Waco' Mosby : Now, let's don't go shakin' your rattles at me. It ain't my fault.

• 'Waco' Mosby : I declare, Mame, I's gettin' mighty worried about ya. That fella's got girls racked up in there like a trail boss drivin' a herd to slaughter.

• Annie Farrell : Where'd you get that tomato?

  'Waco' Mosby : Well, that's my French interpretator.

  Annie Farrell : She's your what?

  'Waco' Mosby : You heard me!

• 'Waco' Mosby : Now, listen, Annie Farrell, don't you go to blinkin' them baby brown eyes me.