The Unholy Three (1930)

Lon Chaney: Echo

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• Rosie O'Grady : [Both are laughing]  Why, I... I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

  [She laughs again and so does he] 

  Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : Well, why - why not do a little of both? You know the old gag. That's all there is to life. A little laughter... a little tear.

• Jeweller : [Referring to one of the rubies]  If that little rascal had swallowed it, we would have never recovered it.

  Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : Oh, I would have recovered it all right.

  Arlington : [to the jeweler]  She means an emetic.

  Jeweller : [They both laugh]  What a sense of humor!

• Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : Now listen, you come in with me on this and I'll make you rich - plenty rich. Now, you see, my plan is so simple; so, Midget, that it scares ya.

  Hercules : Well, I don't know. Are you sure?

  Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : Sure! From tonight on we disappear. They'll look for the Midget, but there won't be no Midget. They'll find the fingerprints of the Echo, they'll be no Echo.

  Hercules : It sounds kinda creepy.

  Midget : I like it. It's unholy!

  Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : That's us! The Unholy Three.

• [last lines] 

  Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : I'll send you a postal card.

• Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : You lay off of that guy. Or, how would you like a sock in the nose? !

  Rosie O'Grady : Oh, cut it out! Nobody's gonna beat me up!

• Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : [to the sideshow crowd]  Well, friends, that's all there is to life - just a little laugh... a little tear.

• Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : You're gonna do that once too often and he'll tear you to pieces!

  Hercules : Ah! You mean I'll tear him to pieces.

  Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : Yeah, you and the Swiss Navy, you dumb cluck!

• Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : All right, bring the boob in with his Christmas tree. And remember, I'll be in the next room.

  Rosie O'Grady : For crying out west!

• Hercules : I'm sick of it!

  Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : Yes and you're going to be a whole lot sicker if I don't do some fast thinkin'!

  Hercules : I don't want to think about it. I want you to go out and leave me alone!

  Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : Yes, If I left you alone you'd fry! The both you you'd fry!

• Professor Echo, aka Mrs. 'Grandma' O'Grady : That dick's got a line on us. We gotta think fast.