Bullets or Ballots (1936)

Joan Blondell: Lee Morgan

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• Lee Morgan : Well, it's time you got wise to yourself. Around this town the only reason friends pat you on the back is to find an easy place to break it!

  Johnny Blake : Yeah. You're a friend, aren't you?

  Lee Morgan : Well, I guess you're dumb enough to think so.

• Lee Morgan : You're gonna take it away from Blake?

  'Bugs' Fenner : Yeah.

  Lee Morgan : Go ahead and take it.

  [Bugs moves in for a long kiss and gets slapped by Lee] 

  Lee Morgan : The numbers game.

• Johnny Blake : You like me pretty well. Well, that goes both ways. If women and home life had been in my line, I'd have fallen for you a long time ago.

  Lee Morgan : That would have been kind of nice, wouldn't it?

  Johnny Blake : Yeah. Until you went crazy being married to a man who was never home.

  Lee Morgan : Sort of wondering if it was an optical illusion.

  Johnny Blake : Yeah. It isn't in the cards.

  Lee Morgan : And you can't beat the cards, can you?

  Johnny Blake : No.

• 'Bugs' Fenner : You don't trust me.

  Lee Morgan : I don't trust anybody.

  'Bugs' Fenner : Neither do I. We ought to work fine together.

• Lee Morgan : I tried to take you in with me. It sort of turned out better to toss it to the wolves, didn't it?

  Johnny Blake : Well, I thought they'd let you keep running your end of it.

  Lee Morgan : I guess that wasn't poetry about friends finding an easy place to break your back!

• Lee Morgan : If Mike catches you back there, he'll crown you.

  Herman : Yeah, but he isn't here.

• Lee Morgan : I'll wait for you.

  Johnny Blake : You'll have to wait too long.

• Lee Morgan : You're a funny fella, Johnny. When you come out of your shell, you're really human.

  Johnny Blake : Well, I don't like to see decent people pushed around.

• Lee Morgan : How were the collections?

  Herman : Just fine. You really got something in this numbers game, Miss Lee. Mr. Henrich says he thinks it's gonna catch on in the Bronx even better than Harlem.

• Lee Morgan : I'm sorry you got kicked out, Johnny. It's going to be kind of tough to start into a new game after all these years.

  Johnny Blake : Yeah, I suppose so.

  Lee Morgan : What are you gonna do?

  Johnny Blake : I will take in the fights. They got a good card on tonight.

  Lee Morgan : Don't hurt your knuckles.

• Johnny Blake : You're aces, Lee.

  Lee Morgan : I'll remember that, Johnny.

• Lee Morgan : You don't seem very upset about it.

  'Bugs' Fenner : There's no use crying if the dice happen to fall that way.

• Herman : [Answering the phone]  Who is it? He isn't here.

  Lee Morgan : Who'd they want?

  Herman : McCloskey.

  Lee Morgan : That's you.

  Herman : [Lifts handle again]  Hello?

  [Turns to Lee] 

  Herman : He hung up.

• Lee Morgan : I guess that wasn't poetry about friends finding an easy place to break your back.