The Bachelor Father (1931)
C. Aubrey Smith: Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton
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Quotes
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Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : I am the first man ever to become a father by majority vote.
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Dr. Frank 'Mac' MacDonald : You're the most self-indulgent man I ever knew.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : I devote my life to pleasing myself. Why shouldn't I? No family. No relatives, thank Heaven.
Dr. Frank 'Mac' MacDonald : Well, you might have settled down and had children.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Children! O-ho-ho! I've had 'em! Plenty of 'em!
Dr. Frank 'Mac' MacDonald : What? You?
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Why not? No great feat. Anybody can do it. Even you have two sons.
Dr. Frank 'Mac' MacDonald : Well, I like that! Basil, where are your children?
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Oh, dotted about the various points of the compass.
Dr. Frank 'Mac' MacDonald : Well I must say, you're very casual about them.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Well, they're nothing to me. Never seen 'em!
Dr. Frank 'Mac' MacDonald : Why don't you send for your children? Make a home for them.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : What? Fill this place with a lot of noisy ill-bred brats?
[he chuckles]
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : You've got a quaint sense of humour, Frank.
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Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : He'll never marry. He's all business. Not the marrying kind.
Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : I don't care whether he is or not. He'll fall, when the right girl comes along.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : No girl's going to get John.
Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Yeah? Well, those that live the longest, will see the most.
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Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : We didn't pick you for a father! If we had, you wouldn't have been such a flop.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : If you talk to me like that, I'll put you across my knee and give you a darn good spanking.
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Geoffrey Trent : How are we to address you?
Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Yeah, what are we going to call ya?
Geoffrey Trent : We feel that Sir Basil is a little too distant.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Quite so. Of course, at the moment "father" is out of the question.
John Ashley : I have it! Why not: Chief.
Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : That's it! Chief! We're all out of the same firehouse.
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Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Don't call it England!
John Ashley : All right, England.
[Tony giggles, Sir Basil spanks her behind]
John Ashley : Whoop!
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Maria Credaro : Miss Tony said that if you didn't get up when you were called, she'd come and pull you out of bed.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Pull me out of bed?
Maria Credaro : Yes, sir.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : She'd do it!
Maria Credaro : Yes, sir.
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Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Are you going balmy?
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Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : When I was young, girls never said these things. They never even thought them.
Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : That's why they never said them.
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Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : I've done nothing but spoil you.
Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Why shouldn't you? Aren't I your favorite little accident?
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Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Yes, I'll still have Tony. And when you have Tony, you have your hands full.
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Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Well, they're gone.
Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Gee, Chief, you talk as if they were dead.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : I shall miss them.
Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : Oh, cheer up. I can annoy you enough for the whole bunch.
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Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : I shouldn't have let the twigs grow in the trees before transplanting them.
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Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : I'm going away! And that's the whole thing in a nut hole. I mean, nut shell. I mean...
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Nut hole, is what you're trying to say.
Antoinette 'Tony' Flagg : No it isn't! Nut *shell* is what I'm trying to say!
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Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Children are a confounding nuisance, anyway. When they're around there's nothing but trouble and - and - and - and hooey!
Larkin, the Butler : Yes, sir. Hooey.
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John Ashley : Sir Basil, I've been thinking this whole thing over. I'm a fool!
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : You consider that in the nature of - news?
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Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : You're just like your mother. She could charm the bird out of a tree. No matter what she did, she could always explain.