Untamed Youth (1957)

Lurene Tuttle: Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp

Quotes 

• Bob Steele : Suppose I came before you? Do you think you'd be doing me a favor by sending me out to this ranch? No, I go because I got to! I live in a shack. I sleep on a canvas cot. There are four wash basins and two showers for 20 guys. And unhealthy food, that I am paying for. You know what I found out about that food? Tropp's feeding canned dog food and he calls it "beef stew"!

  Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp : Oh, no! No! Russ wouldn't do a thing like that!

  Bob Steele : What do you mean he wouldn't do it? He's doing it! Mother, I saw the empty cans.

• Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp : You are vagrants! Without visible means of support. Hitchhiking about the country. You have pled guilty. I now sentence you, Jane Lowe, and you, Penny Lowe, to 30 days confinement.

  [Penny sticks her middle finger in her mouth and looks at Jane] 

  Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp : Now, that may seem harsh to you. But, I'm going to give you a choice. You may serve your sentence in the County Jail - or you may serve it as agricultural workers on a ranch. There you will be housed and fed. You will do healthy, outdoor work, for which you will be paid. And you will regain your self-respect!

  Jane Lowe : We never lost it, your Honor.

• Russ Tropp : Don't you see honey, after this harvest I'll be rich. And next season, I'll be wealthy!

  Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp : You mean, we'll be.

  Russ Tropp : Of course, I meant we.

• Russ Tropp : Labor's so scarce this season. The other ranchers are beginning to belly ache. It's only natural when they drive by my places and see I've got crews at work.

  Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp : Well, maybe it's be only fair to certify some prisoners to them.

  Russ Tropp : Fair? Fair! I'm not interested in what's fair. Now, listen, you know that I spent $2,000 in the right places to get those county ordinances changed so that we could put prisoners to work on farms. I chunked in a big wad of dough to get you elected too. Oh, no. This is my idea. I thought of it. I made it legal. And I'm taking the profits from it. All of 'em! Who else in the Valley's got cotton pickers at 75 cents a day?

• Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp : Please stay for dinner, Russ.

  Russ Tropp : Oh, I'm sorry, I can't.

  Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp : At least a drink, then. Your favorite, lover boy. Gin and tonic!

• Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp : What you mean is you wanted to talk about Bob. That's why you took me out tonight.

  Russ Tropp : No, baby, of course not. I wanted to have some time with you alone. Look, believe me, kitten, I'm thinking about you. But, Bob's no kid. He's inquisitive. He's been around. Now, he's gonna figure out our set up.

  Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp : Set up? Don't use that term, Russ. That's a gangster's term. What we're doing is absolutely legal.

  Russ Tropp : All right, Cecilia. Now, we saw to that. But, your boy, my dear, is a do-gooder.

• Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp : Take them into custody. Do your duty!