Girl of the Port (1930)

Reginald Sharland: Jim

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Quotes 

• Jim : Oh, God! Don't let the fire get me! Don't let the fire get me! Oh, God! Don't let the fire get me! Don't let the fire get me!

• Soldier on the Front : [waiting in the trenches to attack]  Give us the word, sir.

  Jim : Steady on.

  Soldier on the Front : This waitin' - it's gettin' me.

  Jim : Steady, laddie.

• Josie : Hello, Bozo. Hey, time to wake up! Come there, wake up.

  Jim : Who in blazes are you?

  Josie : Lon Chaney.

• Josie : Do you want it that bad?

  Jim : If I don't have it I - I've got to have it!

• Jim : It isn't done amongst gentlemen, is it? Not when ladies are present.

  McEwen : So, you set yourself up to be a gentleman, do you? And by lady, I suppose you mean that little Tabby over there?

  Jim : Pardon me, I hope I misunderstood the words you used in regards to that girl?

  McEwen : No, you didn't, Johnny. T-A-B-B-Y, Tabby! The girl that's trying to make you!

  Jim : Of course you don't know a white lady when you see one, do you? That's the disadvantage of being - a half-caste!

• Jim : Do you know what liquid fire is?

  Josie : Yeah, the Dutchmen used to shoot outta guns.

  Jim : No. Out of pipes, hitched up to tanks they carried on their shoulders. Like water pipes. And the fire came hissing, curling, like water. Twenty, fifty feet. On whatever it touched, it burned. Flesh. On bone. On brains!

  Josie : Geez!

  Jim : I saw them burn. The boys beside me. Just boys, most of them. Crying like children. Calling on God to end them. Wrapped in fire!

  Josie : Oh, don't. Don't!

  Jim : We cried, "God and the Right!" Only, God wasn't with us that time.

• Jim : I can't face fire. I've tried. And I'm finished.

  Josie : Bunk! You gotta learn to take it on the chin and like it.

  Jim : You're a sweet girl, trying to buck me up. But, if you really want to help me - will you please do just one favor? Will you please get me a drink!

• Josie : You gotta scram outta Fiji snapping.

  Jim : Why?

  Josie : That McEwen, baby. He'll be layin' for ya.

  Jim : Oh, it isn't important.

  Josie : It is to me! You got in this jam on account of me and I'm gonna get you outta this, pronto! He's a bad hombre!

• Jim : You won't get me down again! You yellow swine!

• Jim : Did you ever know me when I wasn't thirsty?

  Josie : I ain't known you but two weeks.

• Jim : Allow me.

  Josie : Easiest thing I do.

• Jim : My name's Jameson.

  Josie : Oh, yeah? I've seen that name on bottles.

• Josie : You don't have to give your name away. I can see you're class, all right.

  Jim : You take a lot for granted, Josie.

  Josie : You can't fool a horse fly. Any beachcomber that's fuzzy about his fingernails and spends his last dime on a safety razor blade, can't talk me into thinkin' his family all lived in one room and took in boarders.

• Josie : Go on, a big timer like you, there must have been some fem? But, you don't have to tell me.

  Jim : I'd like to tell you, Josie. I was going to marry a girl.

  Josie : A really lady?

  Jim : A cousin of mine. Frightfully good looking. She swore she'd help me fight that fear. The fire fear. You understand.

• Jim : Do you mind telling me what's funny?

  Josie : I was just thinkin', wouldn't it be a joke on that dame if you went back to wherever ya come from, cold sober, and no more afraid of fire than you are of a dog or a gun or a half-caste or of anything? Wouldn't that be a honey, Captain Jameson?

• Josie : Cut out the bar varnish for keeps!

  Jim : I'm doing my best, Josie.

• Josie : I gotta be on my way now.

  Jim : Don't go, Josie.

  Josie : If I stay here forever, you won't be glad to see me come back! So long.

• Jim : Oh, I say, I smashed another dish.

  Josie : Lucky it wasn't an only child.

• Josie : Listen, Bozo, you're still kinda shaky. And, no wonder, cuttin' out the hooch like you have. You don't want to go exaggeratin' what I done and gettin' all Jolson about it.

  Jim : I'm a rotter to make love to you, I know. But, Jo, you've been so dear and wonderful. I tell myself I mustn't; but, I just can't help loving you.

  Josie : Now, don't go mixin' up love and gratitude. 'Cause they ain't no more alike than champagne and Ovaltine!

• Josie : I know you're a real swell and I ain't gonna go grabbin' ya off, just when you're down on your luck and thankful to anyone that slips you a kind word.

  Jim : [Jim kisses Josie]  Do you think that's gratitude, Josie?

  Josie : Oh, I don't know what it is. But, it feels - elegant.

• Jim : You're dead right. I have no business making love to a woman. A coward.

  Josie : Don't you say that! Don't you think it even. You ain't no coward! You're - why you're a pip!

• Josie : You're gonna lick that too! There ain't nothin' you can't do once you make up your mind to it.

  Jim : If I do, if I do lick it, will you let me say, "I love you"?

  Josie : If you promise to say it a lot.

• Jim : I'm going to make you awfully happy, Josie. We're going to lick that fear - together.

• Jim : You black ape! You lie!

  Kalita : I head man on Benga. I no lie.

• [last lines] 

  Jim : Will you come home to England with me, Josie?

  Josie : Will I? Wire the King and Queen to lay out the guest towels!