Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)

William Eythe: Albert 'Al' Marbury

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• Albert 'Al' Marbury : Well, you're not going to see the mayor right now, are you?

  Col. Will Seaborn Effingham : Soon as I can change my clothes.

  Albert 'Al' Marbury : Well, there's no hurry, cousin Willie. Any old time will do.

  Col. Will Seaborn Effingham : Son, when you get to be sixty-five it's a good time to hurry!

• Albert 'Al' Marbury : Politics and polite society just don't mix!

• Albert 'Al' Marbury : What's the matter with you today anyhow?

  Ella Sue Dozier : I have a slight case of moral indigestion.

• Albert 'Al' Marbury : I have nothing against the old courthouse. As a matter of fact I have a personal attachment for it. I just think Cousin Willie is stirring up a lot of unnecessary trouble.

  Ella Sue Dozier : He's stirring up a lot of trouble alright.

  Albert 'Al' Marbury : Sort of feel sorry for the old guy. He's like a rabbit, bouncing out of his nice briar patch and leaping lickerty-split across the field under the muzzles of 12-gauge shotguns.

  Ella Sue Dozier : Isn't it more like a rabbit to sit cowering in his nest?

• Albert 'Al' Marbury : Of course, I'd seen your legs before but they'd never impressed me as something unusual.

  Ella Sue Dozier : Just run of the mill?

• Col. Will Seaborn Effingham : What's the population now?

  Albert 'Al' Marbury : Oh, about 30,000.

  Col. Will Seaborn Effingham : How many voted in the last election?

  Albert 'Al' Marbury : Oh, four or five thousand, I'd say.

  Col. Will Seaborn Effingham : You mean 25,000 took no part in the action?

• Ella Sue Dozier : Have you a statement for the press?

  Albert 'Al' Marbury : [Mimicking the blowhard mayor]  Only that I wish to convey to our esteemed city leaders my heartfelt appreciation for this delicious barbecued pig... without which democracy as it is known in Georgia...

  [trails off] 

• Albert 'Al' Marbury : Look, honey child, I'm a Southerner. Serious is one thing I'm scared to death of.

• Albert 'Al' Marbury : You know, I think you should hang a service star on the door of the society department.

  Ella Sue Dozier : Why?

  Albert 'Al' Marbury : You got me into this.

  Ella Sue Dozier : Me?

  Albert 'Al' Marbury : Thought you'd like the uniform.

  Ella Sue Dozier : Oh, Albert, this is so sudden.

• Ella Sue Dozier : I didn't even suspect you knew I had legs.

  Albert 'Al' Marbury : Just beginning to bother me, that's all.

  Ella Sue Dozier : You mean there's something profane in your feelings towards me?

  Albert 'Al' Marbury : Definitely.