Riffraff (1935)

Spencer Tracy: Dutch Muller

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• Dutch Muller : [showing his bride Hattie his place]  It's genuine artificial roses. They never wear out!

• Dutch Muller : [lifting the fox that Hattie is wearing around her neck, given to her by Nick]  Where did you get the skunk?

  Hattie : [outraged]  Skunk!

• Hattie : Hiya, Dutch.

  Dutch Muller : Hello, Squirt.

• Dutch Muller : We ain't gonna fight--and I'll sock the first guy in the puss that says we are.

• Dutch Muller : Shove off!

  [pushes Hattie to the ground] 

  Hattie : Why, you dirty woman beater!

  Lil : Gee, Hattie, are you hurt?

  [to Dutch] 

  Lil : You beast!

  Hattie : That big ape couldn't hurt me.

  [rubbing her behind] 

• Hattie : [to Nick]  Come on. Why waste time with this riffraff?

  Dutch Muller : Look who's calling me riffraff? That cheap little tuna tinner, tryin' to red apple on the boss.

  Hattie : Yeah, well it looks to me like them red apples is sour grapes to you!

• Dutch Muller : Come on, honey, wet that whistle.

  Hattie : Why should I?

  Dutch Muller : Cause, you sweetness, I asked you to. Come on.

• Dutch Muller : [dancing]  That's swell stink-up you got in your hair.

  Hattie : Like it?

  Dutch Muller : You know, this is hard to take.

• Dutch Muller : [Hattie kicks Dutch]  Ow! You little mule. Go on. Go on, keep it up. I love it. I love dames with spirit! Dames and fishes!

  Hattie : Take your hands off of me! Let me go!

  Dutch Muller : Oh, now, you ain't really gonna get sore at me, are you honey?

  Hattie : You bet I am!

• Hattie : Them was the only furs I ever had.

  Dutch Muller : Aw, you don't have to take nothin' from that big ape. You know, there's other guys can buy you furs, if they wanna.

  Hattie : Yeah, well, I don't see 'em doin' it.

  Dutch Muller : You know, I know a lot of dames who would rather have a guy's arms around 'em, keepin' 'em warm. Sure, anybody can buy a dame a fur piece.

• Dutch Muller : What did you come here for anyway?

  Jimmy : We was going to the zoo; but, this was nearer!

• Dutch Muller : Just take a gander at that, tootsie!

• Hattie : I got to be goin'.

  Dutch Muller : Aw, you ain't goin' no place. That stink-up is drivin' me screwy. Want to slip me a little kiss?

  [long kiss] 

  Dutch Muller : Looks like you and me been wastin' a lot of time.

  Hattie : Yeah. Well, it's takin' you a long while to find that out.

• Dutch Muller : [kiss]  Who you gonna marry now? Who you gonna marry now?

  Hattie : Dutch?

  Dutch Muller : Yeah, you're gonna marry me, ain't ya?

  Hattie : Dutch! Oh, Dutch!

  [kiss] 

• Dutch Muller : What are you blubberin' about?

  Hattie : I can't help it. I've been crazy about you all my life. My whole life!

  Dutch Muller : Did you think I didn't know it?

  Hattie : We ain't never gonna fight any more are we?

  Dutch Muller : I'll say we ain't! Come on, shut off the tears, baby!

• Dutch Muller : Oh, don't be screwy. I wanna marry you because you're spit lucky!

• Dutch Muller : Well, I tell ya, honey, it's like this with me, I always sort of sidestepped gettin' tied down. I seen too many guys that were goin' along great, get saddled with a wife, pretty soon kids come along. Yeah, then the first thing you know the guy's nose is chained to the grindstone and the jig is up! They lose their, their, what do you call it? Their personality. Yeah, that's it. You get me?

• Dutch Muller : You brought me luck tonight. I don't know why you shouldn't keep right on doin' it.

  Hattie : I see. So, that's the reason, huh?

  Dutch Muller : Yeah! You're gonna do all right with me. Come on, slip us a little kiss.

  [Hattie slaps him instead] 

  Dutch Muller : Hey, what's the idea?

  Hattie : What a big swell headed lug! What do ya think I am? Just an old rabbit's foot to bring you luck?

  Dutch Muller : Well, sure. Why not?

  Hattie : I don't have to marry you nor no other guy to bring him luck. There's plenty of 'em goofy about me!

  Dutch Muller : Oh, I see. You've been readin' them 'True Love Confession' magazines, huh? You want one of them oily guys that drools at the mouth. Say, listen, I don't ever get gabby about the way I feel and I do all right!

• Hattie : You let go of me, Dutch Muller!

  Dutch Muller : Aw, quit your kiddin'. You know you love it!

  Hattie : Take your hands off of me! I hate the touch of ya!

  Dutch Muller : Oh, I suppose you like the touch of that dressed up can of tuna, huh?

• Mrs. McCall : [at Dutch and Hattie's wedding]  Oh, Hattie's a dear girl. You're both so lucky, Dutch.

  Dutch Muller : Thank you, Mrs. McCall. It's a great break for Hattie; but, she's a good little kid. She deserves it.

• Dutch Muller : Oh, will you keep your big red nose out of this, you old rum hound!

• Dutch Muller : It's yours, Squirt. All of it.

  Hattie Muller : Oh!

• Dutch Muller : Don't tell me you're sore?

  Hattie Muller : [sarcastically]  Sore. Why should I be so when you call a strike in honor of our weddin'?

  Dutch Muller : Oh, come on, Squirt. Don't worry about the strike. Let me worry about it. That's my business. You just look after your wifely duties.

  [kiss] 

  Dutch Muller : Take off your clothes, Mrs. Muller, and stay awhile.

• Hattie Muller : I didn't want to hurt you.

  Dutch Muller : You didn't want to hurt me? You talk as if they licked me!

• Dutch Muller : Listen, you four-eyed sap, don't try to make a mug outta me.

• 'Brains' McCall : Cool down, now, Dutch. A smart guy knows when the game is over. You're coming back to work with us.

  Dutch Muller : Back to work, back to work. Are you still peddlin' that fish?

• Dutch Muller : What's the use of kiddin' ourselves. You and me ain't gonna pull off no revolution and you know it.

• Hattie Muller : That's swell, Dutch. Simply, swell.

  Dutch Muller : Sure! Sure! Then we'll go to Mexico. We'll live in the soft. Why, there's nothin' to it. All you have to do down there is just grab the stuff off the trees.

  Hattie Muller : [unimpressed]  Like a coupla gypsies. Bummin' our way.

• Dutch Muller : Who's that? What kind of a puss is that?

  Jimmy : If you think this puss is funny, you shoulda saw your puss.

• Dutch Muller : Hey, what are you trying to do? Make a mug outta me?

• Dutch Muller : What are the gang given the shindig for anyway?

• Dutch Muller : Hello, Squirt.

  Hattie Muller : "Hello, Squirt." Aw, I dreamed about you sayin' that, like you used to when we woke up in the mornin's.

  Dutch Muller : Yeah, that's right, Squirt.

• Hattie Muller : Say, you ain't tryin' to pull a powder on me, are ya?

  Dutch Muller : Aw, Squirt, don't be daffy.

  Hattie Muller : While I was restin' my chin on them bars up there, you wasn't doin' the same on some dame's neck, was ya? So, that's it. You went and got tied up!

  Dutch Muller : Aw, shut up, Squirt. It's been you all along.

  Hattie Muller : Yeah, me lost in the back of that big, square head of your's!

• Dutch Muller : I just want you to know that I ain't the big shot that I thought I was, see? Belcher kept tellin' me I was Trotsky or somebody; but, I ain't, see? I couldn't be or - even the President! I know what I am now. I'm just the best tuna fisherman on this coast. And I can still knock the nut off of any guy who thinks he's big enough to say I ain't. And that's all.

• Dutch Muller : Gee, I never seen such a good lookin' kid. He kinda looks like me too, don't he?