The Tenderfoot (1932)

Lew Cody: Joe Lehman

Quotes 

• Calvin Jones : [looking at menu from Ruby's "Kosher" Restaurant]  Pardon me, I guess I ain't used to these kinda chuck-houses they have around these parts.

  Joe Lehman : Well, can I help you?

  Calvin Jones : Yeah; what is this 'matzoh balls'? Sounds like Navajo food to me!

  Joe Lehman : Yes, that's Indian. Food from a lost tribe.

• Calvin Jones : [Reading a NYC menu]  What's this - borscht?

  Joe Lehman : Borscht? That's nothing but beet soup.

  Calvin Jones : Yeah? Kind of a highfalutin name for just ordinary, common, home-grown, beets, ain't it?

  Joe Lehman : This is Broadway, you know. Everything isn't what it seems.

  Calvin Jones : Yes sir, I can see that. Guess I gotta, kinda, watch my step along this lighted cowpath.

• Joe Lehman : Just in from Oklahoma, eh?

  Calvin Jones : Texas.

  Joe Lehman : Oh, I mean, Texas. Great state, Mack, Texas. Great people. Great climate. Oh, by the way, have you met my partner, Mr. McClure?

  Mack : Why how are you Mr. - ?

  Calvin Jones : Jones. Calvin Jones.

• Joe Lehman : Oh, you know what a hole I'm in.

  Ruth Weston : Well, I certainly know what a hole I'm in!

• Ruth Weston : You better be thinking up a good excuse in case your lady friend, Miss Martin, should arrive while he's here.

  Joe Lehman : Don't tell me that dame's comin' here?

  Ruth Weston : Absolutely - and she's bringin' 141 pounds of temperament with her!

  Joe Lehman : You stall her off, will ya? Tell her she's gettin' thin or anything else; but, don't let her come into the office.

• Joe Lehman : Well, sweetheart, how'd you like the show?

  Calvin Jones : [Looks around]  Oh, you mean me? Oh, say the show was a rip snorter! And women - whoopie!

• Ruth Weston : What a minute, Sam, you're not going to get away with that. You think you can take his dough and kick him off, you're all wet!

  Joe Lehman : Who do you think you're talking to?

  Ruth Weston : To you, wise guy! You hooked him with a lot of phony talk, sold him the idea to put all his money in a turkey show.

• Mack : [Calvin is putting his pistols in his pockets]  Say, are those things loaded?

  Calvin Jones : Right to the hilt!

  Joe Lehman : You carry 'em around loose like that?

  Calvin Jones : Say, I sleep with 'em!

  Mack : Kind of dangerous, ain't it?

  Calvin Jones : Only for the man that I'm shootin' at, ha ha.

  Calvin Jones : I'm the best shot in Rawhide County, Texas. I can core a plum at 200 paces without even wrinkling the skin.

  [Joe and Mack laugh]