Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)

Nancy Kelly: Connie Bryce

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• Connie Bryce : Cut it out! You're queerin' my pitch!

• Boy : [to Connie]  You oughta see our house in the jungle. It's really peaceful.

  Tarzan : Boy wish he were home, eh?

  Boy : Well, uh... Why don't you come and live with us, Connie?

  Connie Bryce : Oh! Listen, you better not tempt me.

  [Cheeta dances for joy] 

  Boy : Cheeta says yes. What do you say, Tarzan?

  Tarzan : Connie used to big cities. Connie get lonesome here soon.

  Connie Bryce : I've been lonesome all my life.

  [Uncomfortable with the conversation, Tarzan leaves] 

  Connie Bryce : What's the matter, Boy? Did I say something to upset him?

  Boy : It's alright, Connie. But you see, Tarzan's lonesome, too. For Jane.

  Connie Bryce : Oh. Is that the girl you mentioned in your prayers? Is she your mother?

  [Boy nods] 

  Connie Bryce : You both must love her very much.

  Boy : Of course we do.

  Connie Bryce : Gee, she's a lucky girl.

  Boy : Tarzan and I are the lucky ones.

• Connie Bryce : Well, now, about this message, am I supposed to memorize it or is it to be written on my back in invisible ink?

• Connie Bryce : That old yawner about this being a small world certainly ain't no lie. A few weeks ago I'm playing five-a-day stands in flea-bitten vaudeville houses, then - voom! - I'm in Africa entertaining the soldiers who chased Rommel out. And then out of the clear blue sky I'm hired by a handsome Sheik to ride across yon buurning desert sands on a secret mission.

• Tarzan : Girl all right?

  Connie Bryce : Oh course, I'm all right, you - you fugitive from a sideshow!

• Achmed : Because the English I so well speak, I, Achmed No-Gosh Say-Golly, by my friends to address you, have been select.

  Connie Bryce : Well, shoot.

  Achmed : Is it true, oh mystic lady, that one within this box placed - may in half be sawin' - and afterward in one piece, put together, be?

  Connie Bryce : Well, if it isn't true then I'd died a thousand horrible deaths. What's on your mind, Rudy?

  Achmed : This magic, we wish to learn.

  Connie Bryce : Oh, I get it. A free show, eh?

  Achmed : My friend, Kushmet. Three wives with the tempers of she-camels he possesses. Upon two of which, the most homely, he would this strange magic perform - with failure. Thereby bending to his will, the mind of the third.

• Connie Bryce : Criminy, who in the world would suspect a gal magician with a vaudeville show that's strictly from hunger.

• Connie Bryce : Flies. Sand. Mosquitos. Monkeys. Human monkeys.

• Connie Bryce : [to Cheeta]  Go away! Scat! You - you Mussolini! Scat!

• Boy : Please lady, don't be made at Tarzan. He was only trying to help you.

  Connie Bryce : Say, what is this? A carnival act? E-gods! And a monkey too!

• Connie Bryce : Unless I've got the blind staggers, I'm looking at a horse.

  [to Tarzan] 

  Connie Bryce : Okay, muscles, there's my greyhound for Bir-Herari.

• Connie Bryce : He practically promised to set Tarzan free.

  Boy : Oh, Connie, aren't you glad now I made you say your prayers.

  Connie Bryce : I certainly am. I think you got something there.

• Connie Bryce : I'm being framed. They're trying to give me a fast shuffle. I mean, I'm being accused of something I didn't do!

• Connie Bryce : [singing]  They will holler Boola Boo

  [speaking] 

  Connie Bryce : Nice going, chump.

  Prince Selim : Say, where did you learn song?

  Connie Bryce : Oh, I've had a very liberal education. I've been intercepting Yale passes for years.

• Connie Bryce : Ameer has twice sent couriers to you with confidential messages.

  Prince Selim : But, I never received any such messages?

  Connie Bryce : Well, wake up, chum. There's dirty work at the crossroads. Somebody bumped those two guys off.

• Connie Bryce : This is gonna make up for all that sand I swallowed. Boy, am I relaxed.

  Tarzan : Good to rest after struggle.

  Connie Bryce : Good? It's heavenly!

• Connie Bryce : One good thing about a whopping big storm like that, it certainly feels swell when it's over.

• Connie Bryce : Well, here we are. A kid, a monkey, a horse thief, and accused murderess, all hunting for fever medicine.

• Connie Bryce : What is it, Tarzan?

  Tarzan : Men near. Come!

• Connie Bryce : So long, Tarzan, Bye, Boy, Thanks for everything, your Sheikness!

• Connie Bryce : Okay, palsy-walsy.

• Connie Bryce : What's keeping him so long? Every time I think of that rope necklace waiting for me at Bir-Herari, I - get the yips.