The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)

George Meeker: Jigger Bolton

Quotes 

• Bob Parks : You know, I couldn't get any real booze in this little town; so, I had to take the stuff I could get from the drug store. Come and get it! I don't know if it will be any good. It's hard to get the right ingredients in a little town like this.

  Antoinette 'Toni' Martin : Mmmm. I think its lovely.

  Jigger Bolton : Yeah, that's his one real talent. He can make a martini out of cockroach paste and turpentine.

  Bob Parks : No! That's a Manhattan. A martini is boiled cigar butts and sheep dip.

• Bob Parks : Come on, lady, who was the man and what was the fight about?

  Jigger Bolton : I can't tell you. It was about - Mr. Ferguson's business affairs.

  Bob Parks : Sure it wasn't about - Mrs. Ferguson's love affair?

• Jigger Bolton : Say, do we have to come all the way up from New York to show you how to run your dinky office?

• County Attorney : It's nonsense! He's not that kind!

  Jigger Bolton : Yeah, does it take any particular kind to go daffy over a pretty woman?

• Antoinette 'Toni' Martin : Gee, this is as good as a school of journalism for me.

  Jigger Bolton : Better! No school of journalism ever taught you how to stick your foot in a crack of a door.

• Jigger Bolton : Well, I'm highly qualified to criticize an absent brother, but this is one time Mr. Parks ought to be ashamed of himself. Why she's just a punk kid!

• Perrin : Hi Boo-ful!

  Maizie Dickson : Boo-ful's looking for Bob Parks and Boo-ful's getting a trifle annoyed.

  Perrin : Bob just went out to get a bite to eat.

  Jigger Bolton : Yeah, just a little while ago.

  Maizie Dickson : Would it be any violation of your professional ethics to tell me whether or not the bite to eat looked - appetizing?

  Perrin : Sure shot Mazie they calls her.

  Jigger Bolton : Well, if you ask me, I wouldn't mind sitting down to a - dish of it.

• Perrin : You know, that little county attorney buzzard asked me to write his speech to the jury for him.

  Bob Parks : No.

  Jigger Bolton : Yeah, I bet that'll be a blood thristy masterpiece.

  Perrin : You're gonna have 'em howlin' like a wolf.