Nothing Sacred (1937)

Walter Connolly: Oliver Stone

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Quotes 

• Wally Cook : You mean to say you stood there and let me beat a defenseless woman?

  Oliver Stone : I did, Mr. Cook.

  Wally Cook : Where's your sense of chivalry?

  Oliver Stone : My chivalry? Aren't you just a trifle confused, Mr. Cook? You hit her!

  Wally Cook : That's entirely different! I love her!

• Oliver Stone : I am sitting here, Mr. Cook, toying with the idea of removing your heart... and stuffing it like an olive!

• Oliver Stone : Before I finish with that female Dracula, she'll know one thing: that Oliver Stone is worse than radium poisoning four ways from the jack!

• Oliver Stone : Pneumonia... It's the finger of God if it's true.

• Oliver Stone : Well, my fine Oriental Potentate, I'm not going to have you arrested. I'm going to put you on the payroll as a janitor!

  Ernest Walker : Thank you, sir.

  Oliver Stone : And I always want you present in the local room where my reporters and Mr. Wallace Cook can drink you in constantly as a warning against fakes!

  Ernest Walker : Yessir. May I ask, a Mr. Cook report any more? I wouldn't like for him to lose his job. He was very nice to me.

  Oliver Stone : Mr. Cook is not going to be discharged, your majesty. For his own good and the good of the "Morning Star", I am going to remove him from the land of the living!

  [Next scene, Wallace Cook typing at the Obituary Desk] 

• Oliver Stone : I've been through an inferno. I haven't been able to enter a cafe for the past three weeks, without the band playing "Dixie"!

• Oliver Stone : Jumping H. Sebastian. She's double-crossed us!

• Oliver Stone : Read that! Rub your nose in it. That's Hazel Flagg - the biggest fake in the century. A lying, faking witch with the soul of a eel and the brain of a tarantula!

• Wally Cook : Are you stewed or something? I came in her for congratulations. What's up? What's eating you?

  Oliver Stone : I am sitting here, Mr. Cook, trying to figure some way out of the blackest disaster that has ever struck down an innocent man since the days of Judas Iscariot.

• Oliver Stone : Get to the Waldorf Hotel as quick as you can! Grab Hazel Flagg and bring her to this office - if you have to drag her through the street by the hair!

• Oliver Stone : [On the phone trying to locate the doctor]  Yes, Dr. Emil Eggelhoffer of Vienna. Well, try the medical center. Try Schultz's Beer Garden!

• Oliver Stone : Doctor, I wanna know the worst. I don't want you to spare our feelings... but we go to press in 15 minutes.

• Wally Cook : Listen, Oliver, I tell you I'm innocent. I was just as fooled by Old Black Joe as you were. I believed everything he said, just as you did. Now, Oliver, either you cut out these fat-headed monkey shines of yours and let by-gones be by-gones, or I'm walking out of this fish trap right here and now.

  Oliver Stone : You're under contract to the "Star" for five more years. You're not in the position to resign. Unless you wish to retire from journalistic efforts over that period.

  Wally Cook : Oliver, you're not going to keep me pounding out obituaries for five years?

  Oliver Stone : Those are my plans, Mr. Cook.