Fireball 500 (1966)

Frankie Avalon: Dave Owens

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• Dave Owens : Bend is just up ahead. That's where we might get the treatment.

  Sonny Leander Fox : Well if we do, remember there's no chickens in this coupe.

• Dave Owens : You know it's funny. There you are, laying there like a loser but yet you've got all the chips in front of you. You busted the game Leander.

• Dave Owens : [singing]  Fireball 500, With a girl by my side, I'm a lover out for a ride, Know how to, Keep her satisfied, Fireball 500...

• Charlie Bigg : My name is Charlie Bigg. That's Bigg with two Gs.

  Dave Owens : Figures.

• Charlie Bigg : You've got a big mouth - and a fancy car, Batman.

  Dave Owens : I had mine first.

• Jane Harris : Hi, what are you gonna have?

  Dave Owens : What else is good here?

  Jane Harris : You might look at the menu.

  Dave Owens : Can't look at two things at once.

  Jane Harris : Then I'll leave.

• Dave Owens : By the way, I, uh, noticed that you, uh, have a gaggle of geese following you around. What do you call 'em?

  Sonny Leander Fox : Oh, I call 'em the eager beavers.

• Dave Owens : You believe in that old saying, huh?

  Sonny Leander Fox : What's that?

  Dave Owens : "Behind every pretty girl is a behind."

• Dave Owens : That song you sang yesterday, it made me blush. Wait, don't run away. I just wanted to tell you that I liked the way you sing.

  Jane Harris : I guess this is where I say "thank you."

  Dave Owens : You don't have to. It's just that, uh, well, I sing a little myself. I thought maybe we can get to be a duet.

• Jane Harris : You are good!

  Dave Owens : And I sing, too.

• Dave Owens : See you around?

  Jane Harris : That's where I'll be.

• Dave Owens : Do I get to run my own car?

  Martha Bryan : I want you to test one of mine. And I need the best driver around at the wheel.

• Martha Bryan : I want the car tried out first, just to be sure.

  Dave Owens : Like when?

  Martha Bryan : Like tonight, eight o'clock. Charlie will tell you where. And if you win this cross-country race, there's no limit to the prizes you might get.

• Dave Owens : Where's the husband?

  Charlie Bigg : Well, Martha has an amazing amount of energy. She's very vital and vigorous and her husband took on the enormous job of keeping her happy. He got tired and died.

  Dave Owens : That's the only way to go.

  Charlie Bigg : He was smilin'.

• Dave Owens : You work for her?

  Charlie Bigg : Yeah, I kind of handle her affairs.

  Dave Owens : What else do you handle?

• Dave Owens : What's her story?

  Charlie Bigg : Among other things, her husband provided her with a great deal of money.

  Dave Owens : I also like what nature did for her.

• Dave Owens : She looks a little low slung in the rear.

• Martha Bryan : People in this town bore me.

  Dave Owens : Oh?

  Martha Bryan : The nights are lonely, and as they drag on, I get restless.

  Dave Owens : The evening's just begun. Why don't you relax?

  Martha Bryan : I seem to be getting restless early tonight.

• Martha Bryan : Why don't we stop? Have a drink, talk?

  Dave Owens : Said the spider to the fly.

  Martha Bryan : You're missing a good bet not coming in with Charlie and me.

  Dave Owens : I'm missing a bigger bet not coming in with you.

• Martha Bryan : We have a lot in common, Dave. We could have fun together.

  Dave Owens : Cheating who?

• Martha Bryan : That's playing rough, Dave. Somebody could get hurt.

  Sonny Leander Fox : Hey, only chickens get hurt.

  Dave Owens : Then start cackling, sonny boy.

• Jane Harris : You men are all alike. One pretty ankle...

  Dave Owens : Ankle? Honey, you aren't even warm.

• Dave Owens : I'm sorry. I got a lot of bad habits. One of them is telling the truth.

• Dave Owens : Are you asking me to believe that?

  Martha Bryan : About the only thing you and I do have in common is I tell the truth, too.

  Dave Owens : I believe that.

• Dave Owens : You can mail the medal to me in care of the Boy Scouts of America.

• Dave Owens : You don't think much of racing, do you?

  Jane Harris : You're an authority on the subject. What sort of a life is it?

  Dave Owens : Well, if you hit the top, it's great: plenty of money, lots of laughs, name in headlines, and it's amazing how the women go for you. Even women you'd never expect.

• Dave Owens : [singing]  I'm a lover of the girls, Proud to say that I am, They're the greatest in the world, They know I'm their lovin' man...