Tim Tyler's Luck (1937)

Frankie Thomas: Tim Tyler

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• [Chapter One] 

  Tim Tyler : Spider Webb? Who's he?

  Lora Lacey : He's everything a man shouldn't be, Tim. A brutal killing crook.

  Tim Tyler : What's he doing with my dad's Jungle Cruiser? Do you think that...

  Lora Lacey : I hope not, Tim. The only way we can find out is through...

  [a black panther interrupts them] 

• [Chapter One] 

  Tim Tyler : S'only one thing we CAN do - spend the night up here in this tree. Pick any room you want.

• [Chapter Two] 

  Mr. Spencer : Well, what're you doing out here all by yourself, sonny?

  Tim Tyler : My horse got away from me. I was following the Ivory Patrol. Have you seen them?

  Mr. Spencer : The Ivory Patrol? Why I've never seen them this far north. What's up?

  Tim Tyler : They came up to get the natives that attacked Mr. Conway's ivory safari.

  Mr. Spencer : "Natives" attacked Conway? That just can't be. Why, Jim Conway's blood-brother to half the tribes in Africa.

• [Chapter Four] 

  Tim Tyler : [with Batwonga savages around them]  Can't we make a dash for it?

  Jim Conway : Well, they'd cut us to pieces in the open. I'd rather take my chances in these rocks.

  Lora Lacey : You don't think much of our chances, do you?

  Jim Conway : Not unless we get help from the outside. I don't know where'd they come from.

  Tim Tyler : I know. The Ivory Patrol.

  Jim Conway : My boy, that's three days ride from here.

  Tim Tyler : No, it's not. Sergeant Gates and some of his men are in a base camp not far from here. I can find 'em.

  Jim Conway : Well, you can't do that, Tim. The jungle's full of Batwongas.

  Tim Tyler : I'll get through somehow, Mr. Conway.

  Lora Lacey : But, Tim...

  Tim Tyler : [grinning]  Don't you worry about me.

  [unarmed, rushes off] 

• [Chapter Three] 

  [sweet underscoring plays] 

  Tim Tyler : All I know is Fang showed up just when I needed help. If it hadn't been for him, that lion woulda got me.

  Mr. Spencer : You really believe that he's trying to pay you back for fixing his wounded leg, eh?

  Tim Tyler : Sure looks that way, doesn't it?

  Mr. Spencer : Well, I'll believe it when I lay eyes on you.

• [Chapter Four] 

  Spider Webb : Where's your father now, boy?

  Tim Tyler : You outta know. You've got his Jungle Cruiser.

  Spider Webb : Jungle Cruiser? Oh, you mean that armored tank. Why, we didn't even know it belonged to your father. We found it abandoned in the jungle.

  Garry Drake : Yeah, that's right. We found it.

  Tim Tyler : You expect me to believe that? You STOLE it from him, that's what you did.

  Spider Webb : Too bad you feel that way about it, sonny. You've got us all wrong. We want to help you FIND your father.

  Tim Tyler : So you can make him tell you where the elephants' burial ground is, eh? Well, I don't need your help! I can find him myself.

  Spider Webb : I'm sorry but you're not leaving here for a while yet.

  Tim Tyler : No?

  Spider Webb : And I wouldn't advise you to try it, because nobody can get out of this swamp alive unless they know their way through the quicksand.

• [Chapter Three] 

  Tim Tyler : Well, Fang, old boy... So you're keeping an eye on me, eh? It's all right, fella, as long as you show up like you did just now. Well, your leg's all healed up. Say, fella, how 'bout you and me hunting up some supper? Listen, don't you go making any passes at my horse.

• [Chapter Two] 

  Sgt. Gates : Spider Webb? What's HE doing in the jungle? I thought diamonds were his racket.

  Tim Tyler : He certainly is a tough customer to take a chance on stealing an Ivory Patrol cargo.

• [Chapter Three] 

  Tim Tyler : Savages, Mr. Conway. The jungle's full of 'em!

• [Chapter Eight] 

  Tim Tyler : Miss Lacey! He's choking the life out of me!

• [Chapter Twelve] 

  Tim Tyler : Sergeant, have you seen Lazarre?

  Sgt. Gates : Yes! He's all right. He just had a prisoner.

  Tim Tyler : Gee, that's swell! You see, he and I figured that if we could get the, uh, Jungle Cruiser we could put a crimp in Spider Webb's plan.

  Sgt. Gates : Better than that, Tim. We're going to use the Jungle Cruiser to catch a spider.

  Tim Tyler : We ARE?

• [Chapter Eleven] 

  Jules Lazarre : I have one funny idea. This graveyard, she's place where elephants go for die, yes?

  Sgt. Gates : Yes? What about it?

  Jules Lazarre : Well, this Bolo elephants, she no ready for die, yet. She don't want go there.

  Tim Tyler : I'll bet he's right. Bolo will go in any direction except that one and there must be SOME reason for it. Elephants are pretty smart.