My Son Is Guilty (1939)

Bruce Cabot: Ritzy Kerry

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• Julia Allen : It's good seeing you back.

  Ritzy Kerry : It's swell seeing you too. Gee, you've grown up.

  Julia Allen : Five feet three.

  Ritzy Kerry : Pretty nifty too.

• Police Officer Tim Kerry : What'd you do?

  Ritzy Kerry : Oh, nothing much. Just sort of moped around. I didn't notice many changes. The same old, tired fat women and dirty-faced kids.

• Ritzy Kerry : [after a performance of the Nicholas Brothers]  Those boys are really hot.

  Julia Allen : Yes, aren't they.

• Claire Morelli : Nick thought a lot of you. He said you had a pretty good head.

  Ritzy Kerry : Well, I find using it for something better than just to hang your hat on.

• Ritzy Kerry : That's one for the books, isn't it: a lady mob chief.

  Claire Morelli : I'd prefer a more dignified term. My husband left the business, I'm looking after it, just as he would if he was alive.

• Ritzy Kerry : I ain't interested. Why, that's chicken feed. What do you think you're hiring - an office boy? I'm a guy that sticks his neck out and you want pay me off in donuts - like the rest of these mugs.

• Ritzy Kerry : I got no time for riddles, see. If you're dangling a hook in front of me, I ain't biting.

• Ritzy Kerry : When it's all over, I'm gonna get my cut and scram. Because, I ain't joining any mob to take orders - especially from a woman.

• Ritzy Kerry : You don't think I'm going to spend the rest of my life in that police broadcasting station, do you, for 25 bucks a week? No, sir. One of these fine days I'm going to walk right out of Hell's Kitchen and strut on Park Avenue. I'm going to travel. See the world. Get everything I want. Like adventure and excitement. I'm going to sit right on the moon. I'm going to stuff my pocket full a stars. I'm really going to live.

• Ritzy Kerry : I told you I wasn't going to be any small potatoes. I got a lot of dough coming to me. Thousands of dollars. Why, Julia, we're in velvet.

• Ritzy Kerry : As soon as the heat's off I'm going to get out fast.

• Claire Morelli : You know, Ritzy, the more I see of you, the more I admire your judgment.

  Ritzy Kerry : Yeah? Oh, even a jackass will back off of a fire, you know.

• Ritzy Kerry : You know, I ought to drop a couple of slugs in you.

• Ritzy Kerry : I'm going to go right on taking good care of myself. And if you don't mind I'll just take a little salt with that yarn that you're trying to sell me.