High School Confidential! (1958)

John Drew Barrymore: J. I. Coleridge

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• Joan Staples : Oh, wow!

  J. I. Coleridge : Cool it!

  Tony Baker : What's that, chum?

  J. I. Coleridge : Beat it!

  Tony Baker : You wanna start a rumble?

• Mr. 'Mr. A' August : Put that drink down. You know what alcohol does to your system.

  J. I. Coleridge : It's my first one.

  Mr. 'Mr. A' August : Now, look. I pay ya for a class family. Upper class. Let's keep it that way. Just lay off the booze. Now get out.

  [pauses, turns to Baker] 

  Mr. 'Mr. A' August : Alcohol's murder on the system.

• J. I. Coleridge : That takes bread. And in the bread department, I am nowhere!

• J. I. Coleridge : Come on, now. Cool it, Cats! Now, how'd you like J.I. to lay a little history on you? Now, you heard that square bit she was puttin' down about Christopher Columbus - our founder. Now, I ask you: is this a bring down? Columbus. Why, man, he was the hippest! Now, one swingin' day while Chris was sittin' at the beach, goofin', he dug that the world was round. And with this crazy idea stashed in his lid, he swung over to the royal pad to cut up a few touches with a cool chick, Queen Isabella, who was a swinger. Isabell took a long look at him and say, "Christy! What is this jazz you puttin' down about our planet bein' round?" She said, "Everybody hip that it square!" "The only thing square about this world are the cats what livin'!" He said, "Now, I'm in your pad for one swingin' reason," he says, "I know I can make it east by swingin' west. Now, I wanna take some non-stop studs to go in a deep pool of water with me and maybe come up with the new world bit." Get down, straight! While everybody swings. And if I goof and run into any of them flip Indian kiddies over there, why, I just sit down and smoke a little pipe with 'em. And who knows, baby, maybe run off with a deed to a groovy piece of real estate! She said, "Crazy man!"

• Joan Staples : Why shouldn't he give me a break? Didn't he turn me on?

  J. I. Coleridge : Come on, you turned yourself on.

• J. I. Coleridge : You sure got the bread, brother.

  Tony Baker : There's a lot more too. If you just help me get some - some H, some coke, some goofballs.