Springtime in the Rockies (1942)

John Payne: Dan Christy

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• Dan Christy : Give me another drink I can still hear ya.

  McTavish : [as bartender]  Uh, yes sir.

• Dan Christy : I remember you. You're the bartender.

  McTavish : Wrong tense, sir. I was.

  Dan Christy : You mean you gave up your job on account of me?

  McTavish : Well, it wasn't a very satisfactory occupation, sir. I'd only been a bartender for two days.

  Dan Christy : It's all very clear to me. You took advantage of me while I was in that bar.

  McTavish : On the contrary, sir. I was obliged to help you to the airplane. Then you prevailed upon me to accompany you as your companion. You said it was fate.

• Dan Christy : Where am I?

  McTavish : Chateau Lake Louise. Heart of the Canadian Rockies. Elevation, 5,670 feet.

• Dan Christy : McTavish, how long have you been talking like the Encyclopedia Britannica?

• McTavish : Well, it all started with my Aunt Stefanie, sir. That is, it started with her will. It's become quite a burden, really.

  Dan Christy : Her will? Don't tell me she died and left you all her big words.

  McTavish : Well, it amounts to practically the same thing, sir. You see, when my Aunt Stefanie died, I was a freshman at Harvard and in her will, she stipulated that I was to receive an allowance of $10,000 a year as long as I remained in college.

  Dan Christy : Huh?

  McTavish : Yes. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I've been going to school now for 20 years. I graduated last month.

  Dan Christy : Twenty years in one college?

  McTavish : Oh, no sir. No, sir. I have diplomas from five.

• Dan Christy : What are you doing tending bar?

  McTavish : Well, sir, I wanted to learn about life... and the present. For 20 years I've been shut up learning about the past.

  Dan Christy : McTavish, this begins to sound like a gag. You certainly look like a bartender.

  McTavish : [Looking very pleased]  Really? Oh... Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you.

• Dan Christy : What's the melting point of magnesium?

  McTavish : Three thousand, five hundred degrees Fahrenheit, sir.

  Dan Christy : Recite the Turkish alphabet.

  McTavish : [recites a few letters]  ... is that correct, sir?

  Dan Christy : How do I know? It sounds correct. It sounds impossible.

• McTavish : Oh well, sir, my whole life has been impossible. You see, I know everything.

  Dan Christy : Well, what's wrong with that?

  McTavish : Well, I confess. Though I am a master of romance languages, I'm scarcely a master of romance. Bachelor of Arts, yes, but awfully tired of being a bachelor.

  Dan Christy : Well, keep your chin up, McTavish.

  McTavish : Yes, sir.

  Dan Christy : Both of 'em.

  McTavish : Yes, sir.

• Dan Christy : [reads engraving on ring]  Together till... this inscription's only half finished.

  McTavish : It was just one hour between planes.

• Rosita Murphy : I am your secretary.

  Dan Christy : What?

  McTavish : That's quite right, Mr. Christy. You hired her in Detroit. She was at the souvenir counter.

  Rosita Murphy : You were having some little trouble and I fix for you.

• Dan Christy : Oh, you two haven't met. Miss Murphy, Miss Lane.

  Vicky Lane : How do you do, Miss Murphy.

  Rosita Murphy : How do you do, I'm sure. I'm fine, thanks.

  Dan Christy : Miss Murphy's my secretary.

  Vicky Lane : Your, uh, secretary?

  Dan Christy : Mmm, secretary.

  Vicky Lane : I see. Mr. Christy, I just called your room. A man informed me that he was your valet.

  Dan Christy : Oh, yes. My valet. My secretary. I'm traveling light, but I manage.

  Vicky Lane : I can see you're roughing it. Goodbye, Mr. Christy.

  Rosita Murphy : Nice for you to make my acquaintance, Miss Lane.

• McTavish : You know, I would suggest your lying down, sir. It'll quiet your mind.

  Dan Christy : Who's on the phone?

  McTavish : It's the general, sir. The colonel, er that Mr. Commissioner from New York.

• Dan Christy : Tell those two ugly mugs to keep their shirts on. I know what I'm doing.

  Commissioner : [to two gents sitting in his office]  He says, love and kisses and how are you?

• Dan Christy : Is that what a secretary wears in Brazil?

  Rosita Murphy : Why? You don't like my outfit? I think it's a knock down.

  Dan Christy : Well, what good is it if there's not a Mardi Gras in town?

• Dan Christy : What's cookin', Phoebe?

  Phoebe Gray : I don't know what's cookin', but I know someone's stewin'.

• Dan Christy : McTavish, any time a woman never wants to see you again, that means she can't live without you. I'm happy to report that everything is progressing according to plan.

  McTavish : Really, sir, really? Your scientific approach to a woman's heart - it's just amazing, sir.

  Dan Christy : Thank you, McTavish.

• Dan Christy : I may break my neck.

  Vicky Lane : Good, but do it quietly.

• Vicky Lane : Now, why didn't you leave by the fire escape as I asked you to?

  Dan Christy : Look, no fire escape.

  Vicky Lane : Well, a gentleman would've jumped.

• Dan Christy : We're going on our honeymoon. Then were' gonna get married.

  McTavish : Aren't you a little mixed, sir?

  Dan Christy : Yes, I am a little mixed up. But I love it.