Untamed (1929)

Ernest Torrence: Ben Murchison

Quotes 

• Howard Presley : [Looking at a sleeping Bingo]  She's lovely. Fascinating.

  Ben Murchison : Aye, just confirms what I've always said: the sweetest flowers grow in the mud.

• Howard Presley : Ben, what a swell lookin' dump this is.

  Ben Murchison : Well, what did you expect to find? Coney Island? Come on, let's promote a drink.

  Howard Presley : Let's promote two.

• Howard Presley : It's morning, Ben.

  Ben Murchison : Aye, another day in the funny old game of life.

  Howard Presley : Sometimes I wonder why we trouble to play it at all.

• Ben Murchison : You know, eight months is a pretty long time to be together. And I don't mind tellin' you, my partner's beginning to get a little bit daffy about her.

• Ben Murchison : Tell me, have you ever heard her swear?

  Jollop : Well, yes, a little.

  Ben Murchison : No, she doesn't swear a little. If you've heard her at all, you've heard everything!

• Ben Murchison : Why you whippersnapper, she's got millions in her own right!

• Ben Murchison : You impudent young pup!

• Ben Murchison : Give us a little kiss, Bingo. Oh, baby, I - I'm so proud of you!

• Howard Presley : How's Miss Alice?

  Ben Murchison : Oh, my, wait until you see her. She's simply beautiful.

  Howard Presley : Is she tame yet?

  Ben Murchison : Tame? Oh, no. I sometimes think she's worst. Of course, you know she's learned a lot of that highfalutin stuff. You know the bunk. But, underneath it all, she's still the same sweet Bingo.

• Ben Murchison : What's going on here? What's the matter?

  Bingo : One man told another man he could lick my man but he couldn't do it, Uncle Ben, no sir, he couldn't do it!

• Ben Murchison : Oh, Bingo, darling, you must be dog tired. Come along, skip off to bed, now.

• Bingo : In a nasty way?

  Ben Murchison : Nasty? How nasty?

• Ben Murchison : You know, young McAllister was spinnin' the gun to show me how Tom Mix did it. And I took it away from him, because I wanted to show him I knew how to spin a gun long before I ever heard of Tom Mix and suddenly, bang, off it goes.

• Ben Murchison : I'm just an old jungle rat.

• Ben Murchison : [in the cabin while on board the ship back to New York]  All I want is a bracer before I kill that monkey.

  Jollop : You're going to kill him?

  Ben Murchison : No. I'm, I'm going to drop him out of a porthole. And if he can't swim, well, that'll be just too bad.