Red Dust (1932)

Jean Harlow: Vantine

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Quotes 

• Dennis Carson : What's the matter with you? Are you crazy?

  Vantine : Just a little nauseated. This rain seems to have uncovered a pile of garbage around here.

  Dennis Carson : Stop looking through key holes. It's bad for the eyes.

• Vantine : Well for the love of mud! Where am I sleeping - on a racetrack?

• Barbara Willis : Oh, it's too silly. What do I mean I'm scared? It was just one of those exciting little moment things.

  Vantine : Well, watch out for the next moment, honey. It's longer than the first.

• Vantine : You can check the wings and halo at the desk.

  Dennis Carson : I'll be right up.

• Vantine : [scraping the bottom of the bird cage]  What you been eatin', cement?

• Vantine : [sarcastically]  I thought we might run up a few curtains and make a batch of fudge while we were planning on what to wear to the country club dance Saturday night.

• Dennis Carson : Come on, lets have it. Who are you? Where'd you come from?

  Vantine : Don't rush me, brother. I'm Pollyanna, the Glad Girl.

• Vantine : You're not going to leave the corpse here?

  Dennis Carson : It's his room. Didn't you know?

  Vantine : Honest I didn't. I just took the first room the houseboy showed me. Oh, please you guys. This place is full of lizards and cockroaches as it is.

  Dennis Carson : One more won't hurt.

• Vantine : Don't mind me boys, I'm just restless.

• Vantine : [sarcastically]  What a pleasant little house party this is gonna be.

• Vantine : [taking a bath]  What's the matter? Afraid I'll - shock the duchess? Don't you suppose she's ever seen a French postcard?

  Dennis Carson : You'll let those curtains down if its the last bath you'll ever take!

• Dennis Carson : [naked, Vantine jumps in a rain barrel]  Get out of there! Say what's the idea?

  Vantine : What?

  Dennis Carson : Getting in that barrel?

  Vantine : Oh, I don't know? Maybe I'm goin' over Niagara Falls. Whoop!

• Barbara Willis : It's stupid of me to be so frightened.

  Vantine : This storm isn't the only thing that has you worried around here, is it? I saw him kick the door shut. He came out with rouge all over his mouth. I suppose he asked to use your lipstick?

  [lights a cigarette] 

• Dennis Carson : All those lame cracks won't help you any if I come back and find you've been annoying her.

  Vantine : Oh, I wouldn't touch her with your best pair of rubber gloves!

• Vantine : Aw, these frog doctors. Even if you did get one, why all they do is sit by the side of the bed and start crabbing the government for not stamping out fever. Then they prescribe brandy and have a sample themselves to see if it's any good, and by the time you're deciding to live or die, they're under the bed singing "Sweet Adeline".

• Dennis Carson : Why'd you get off the boat at all? You know it doesn't stop here again for four week, don't you?

  Vantine : Sure I do. Think I'm overjoyed about it? But, its just got to be, that's all.

  Dennis Carson : Well, then?

  Vantine : I left the boat here for the same reason I took it at Saigon.

  Dennis Carson : What reason?

  Vantine : I got mixed up in a little trouble and I thought I'd stay out of town 'til the Gendarmes forgot about it.

  Dennis Carson : And what a cast iron nerve you've got.

  Vantine : You have to have in my line. But, don't worry, big boy, I'll stay out from under foot. I'll even pay for my board if you insist on it nicely.

• Dennis Carson : Your hair always been that color?

  Vantine : Always been a towhead.

• Vantine : Gee, Denny, I don't want any ceremonies, but, but, turn around and give me the works.

• Vantine : Hey, where's the reception committee? It's been a nice little walk. Did you hear that hungry pussy cat back there?

• Dennis Carson : Now, listen. This woman's decent. You watch your language and stop running around here half naked.

  Vantine : I'll stay as comfortable as I like.

• Barbara Willis : Do you mind if I stay here with you?

  Vantine : Think you can stand the company?

• Barbara Willis : I don't know how it happened. I didn't do anything. He didn't have any reason to believe that I'd...

  Vantine : I didn't hear any cries for help.

  Barbara Willis : Oh, I don't know what came over me. I should have stopped him. I tried, but...

  Vantine : But you couldn't. Even when you tried, could you?

  Barbara Willis : No. That's why I'm scared.

• Gary Willis : [eating dinner]  Those coolies are tough to handle, aren't they?

  Dennis Carson : Didn't I tell you they were a lazy bunch?

  Gary Willis : Well, I mean, I didn't know they were so sneaky about it. The minute you turn your back on 'em, they're up to something or other they shouldn't be doing.

  [Dennis and Barbara look at each other] 

  Gary Willis : Are they always like that?

  Dennis Carson : I'm afraid so.

  McQuarg : I was telling him about that time that Malay tried to knife you in the back.

  Vantine : Its a great country for that sort of thing.

• Vantine : Pity the poor sailors on a night like this. Hmm. Dear little sailors.

• Dennis Carson : Listen, what goes on here is my business.

  Vantine : Suppose I were to tell that nice white kid? He'd make it his business, wouldn't he?

• Dennis Carson : Its a dirty, rotten country.

  Vantine : And we're dirty, rotten people, I suppose, eh?

  Dennis Carson : Sure.

• Vantine : Oh, Denny! Denny, does it hurt awful?

  Dennis Carson : Oh, stop blubbering.