The Front Page (1931)

Edward Everett Horton: Bensinger

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• Irving Pincus : He won't find he's insane.

  Roy B. Bensinger : No?

  Irving Pincus : No! Because he ain't! Williams is as sane as I am.

  Molly Molloy : Saner.

• Roy B. Bensinger : That jail is reeking with germs. Oh, believe me the Board of Health is going to hear about the sanitary conditions over there through my paper. It's amazing to me that those prisoners can live long enough to be hung.

• Roy B. Bensinger : [on the phone]  Get this in for me as a big favor, will ya? The whole meal was furnished by Charlie Apfel, who - Aphel - No, Aph- A for Adenoid, P for Psychology, F for Feen-A-Mint, E for epilepsy and L for, eh, eh, eh, L for, eh, Lay-An-Egg.

• Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson : What are you looking for Roy?

  Roy B. Bensinger : I forgot my aspirin.

  Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson : Oh, you don't want to use aspirin. It's bad for your heart.

  Roy B. Bensinger : Is it really?

  Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson : Yes!

  Roy B. Bensinger : You know, I felt little palpitations around here.

• Roy B. Bensinger : Now, Pete, how about a favor that certain party is asking? Once and for all, will you hang this person at 5 AM instead of 7? It can't hurt you and we can make the City Edition.

  Irving Pincus : Roy, we can't hang a fella in his sleep just to please the newspaper.

• Roy B. Bensinger : What's the name?

  Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson : Tonseline! T for Taffy, O for Oxen, N for Nuts! Get the tonseline.

  Roy B. Bensinger : I know how to spell it.

• Walter Burns : Write me a story from the point of view of the escaped man. He hides, cowering, afraid of every light - and every sound! He hear's footsteps. His heart going like that. And all the time they're closing in. Get the sense of an animal at bay.

  Roy B. Bensinger : A sort of a Jack London style?

  Walter Burns : Exactly!