The Ghost Breakers (1940)

Willie Best: Alex

Quotes 

• Alex : Hey, boss, you ain't goin' upstairs, are ya? Where those ghosts is?

  Larry Lawrence : Listen, you stay there, and if a couple a fellas come runnin' down the stairs in a few minutes, let the first one go. That'll be me.

  Alex : If somebody passes you, that'll be me.

• Larry Lawrence : Must have been a frog in my throat.

  Alex : It's better than havin' a knife in it.

• Larry Lawrence : This is no penny ante game, Alex.

  Alex : Well, what are you gonna get out of it?

  Larry Lawrence : Heart failure.

• [Alex jumps on the assailant in armor struggling with Larry and pulls off the assailant's helmet to see a disfigured man] 

  Alex : [gasps]  It's a zombie!

  Larry Lawrence : It ain't Baby Snooks!

• Alex : Boss, is that a mummy?

  Larry Lawrence : Yes, Miss Carter's great-great-grandmummy.

• Alex : A lot of folks don't like you, boss. I expect some of these mornings when I come to get you outta the bed, I'll have to pull the sheet up instead of down.

• Alex : I just love fooling around with baggage. I used to be a porter.

• Alex : What's all the commotion about?

  Police Officer : Unknown man shot on the 14th floor...

  Alex : He ain't unknown to me!

• Larry Lawrence : You're bleached!

  Alex : No, I ain't, boss. When I get scared, my albino blood shows through.

• Larry Lawrence : If that's Raspy Kelly, I owe him some money.

  Alex : Well, from the tone of his infections, you better pay him.

• Mary Carter : Who are you?

  Alex : I'm Alex, the old family detainer.

• Larry Lawrence : Tomorrow we'll be up in those trout streams.

  Alex : Don't forget your muffler.

  Larry Lawrence : Ah, that's the life. Those great open spaces, fresh mountain air. Go to the window at six o'clock in the morning, open it, climb in and go to bed. Ah, life, love and the pursuit of happiness.

  [storm rages outside] 

  Larry Lawrence : Remember that redhead in Poughkeepsie?

• Alex : I is coming, boss. Oh. Thunder and lightning going. What a night and ain't nobody don't want me.

• Alex : Speak up. I can't hear you in the dark.

• Alex : Where's the trunk going, Miss?

  Mary Carter : To the pier. I'm sailing for Cuba tonight.

  Alex : Cuba? Hot Congo!

• Alex : Sweet Judas!

• Larry Lawrence : That fella, Mederos, he telephoned Miss Carter tonight.

  Alex : Then somebody shot him. So now you're gonna horn in.

  Larry Lawrence , Alex : And get shot.

  Larry Lawrence : That's right. Miss Carter saved my life. Maybe I can save hers.

• Larry Lawrence : Alex and I want to investigate Black Island and get acquainted with the spooks.

  Alex : You speak for yourself, boss, 'cause I won't have no parts of no spooks.

• Larry Lawrence : I don't know why you get so nervous. That's probably the colored caretaker Parada told me about. She's just trying to scare us.

  Alex : Well, she's wastin' her time, 'cause we're scared already.

• Alex : Hey, boss, you ain't going upstairs, are you? Where those ghosts is?

  Larry Lawrence : Listen, you stay there and if a couple of fellows come running down the stairs in a few minutes, let the first one go. That'll be me.

  Alex : If somebody passes you, that'll be me.

• Larry Lawrence : Believe me, we aren't gonna get hurt unless we find the real secret of this place.

  Alex : Well, why do we keep lookin' fer it?

• Alex : Boss, did I press the wrong button?