The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)

Warren William: Perry Mason

Quotes 

• Margie : Did you get anything out of Patton?

  Perry Mason : No, only a knife.

• Thelma Bell : And somebody bumped against the bathroom door.

  Perry Mason : In any country but this, they would have let him in.

• Perry Mason : No beer. No wine. No liqueur. Now I'm gonna break your heart. No whiskey!

  Perry Mason : Are there any other liquids?

  Della Street : Milk.

  Perry Mason : Milk? You mean that unpalatable by-product of the cow?

• Dr. Croker : No excitement whatsoever, and no stimulants.

  Perry Mason : Did you get that, Miss Street? No stimulants and no excitement. I'll have to get rid of you.

  Della Street : Thank you, you flatterer.

• Perry Mason : Margie was at Patton's apartment, and when I came in, she was taking a bath.

  Thelma Bell : What's wrong with that? Don't lawyers take baths?

  Perry Mason : Very few. I like them, but uh, the police wouldn't. They'd say that Margie was washing off bloodstains.

• Perry Mason : [to Bradbury and Spudsy in the restaurant]  Well, there's no one I'd rather pin this killing on than a doctor.

• Perry Mason : [after exiting his chartered plane a little airsick]  What's his name and where'd he go?

  Airline Official : His name was Roberts. I dropped him at a bus for the Lakeview Hotel.

  Perry Mason : They haven't got a lake here, have they?

  Airline Official : No, but the hotel has beds for you to lie down on.

  Perry Mason : That's a very clever remark. Take me to a taxi, please.

• Policeman at Ambulance : [Seeing Mason rolling a woman on a gurney]  Have an accident?

  Perry Mason : No, thank you.

• Perry Mason : [Cautioning Margie and Doray to stop embracing and leave before police arive]  Hang together, and you'll hang separately!

• Perry Mason : All alone in the bridal suite?

  [He guffaws] 

  Perry Mason : You must love yourself.

  Dr. Bob Doray : Whoever you are, we don't make an appropriately agreeable young couple.

• Perry Mason : Exhibit A. Torso and legs, very good. Have you anything in the files from the neck up?

• Perry Mason : Good. I was afraid it was going to be so simple that I wouldn't be able to swing much more of a fee out of it.

• Perry Mason : I'm the only man to beat Patton.

• Bartender : What'll you?

  Perry Mason : Milk.

  Bartender : Milk?

  [laughs] 

  Bartender : That's a hot one.

  Perry Mason : I'll have it cold.

  Bartender : Milk? What am I? A bartender or a dairy maid?

• Perry Mason : I got the dope right here.

  Spudsy's Wife : You're wrong, Mr. Mason. I've got the dope right here.

• Perry Mason : [on the phone with Della]  Empire Apartments. Suite... No, I'm not getting affectionate. Suite 502, Sweet.

• Perry Mason : Quite an epidemic of bathing in this town.

• Perry Mason : Bradbury, again?

  Col. Bradbury : I'm in full control of all my faculties, sir.

  Col. Bradbury : Oh, that's too bad.

• Perry Mason : The gentleman is here.

  Della Street : [laughs]  Don't lie to me. You're no gentleman. You're Perry Mason.

• Detective Johnson : Headquarters just wants to a questioning. Sort of, informal.

  Perry Mason : I'd like it better formal.

  Della Street : Oh, if its formal, I can wear my new evening gown. Can't I, daddy?

• Perry Mason : Oh? What? No rice? No old shoes? Where's the curious bride?

• Perry Mason : Listen, Johnson, I'm tired of you bloodhounds using my office for a kennel.

• Perry Mason : What are you preparing to stick in me, Doctor?

• Perry Mason : Ladies and gentlemen, let us join Thelma in the bathroom.

• Perry Mason : There's something awfully smelly about this. I think we ought to take a peek.

  Perry Mason : That's another thing you'll need a warrant for. Even to take a sniff.

• Perry Mason : Della, I want to start dictating.

• Detective Johnson : Your confession?

  Perry Mason : Certainly, I can confess, if I want to. Where's your book, Della?

  Della Street : Right here, where it fell the other night, when you and I were - oh, I forgot, this is your confession.

• Perry Mason : If Eva had known then that I was Perry Mason, she'd have known that I was at the key hole.

• [last lines] 

  Della Street : Well, you just solved one mystery.

  [bites her lip] 

  Perry Mason : Ah ha, that's what I thought.

• Perry Mason : Thelma, finally got the freight elevator and went out the back way. I saw Margie coming out the front way. I recognized the lucky legs.