Nothing Sacred (1937)

Charles Winninger: Dr. Enoch Downer

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• Dr. Enoch Downer : I'll tell you briefly what I think of newspaper men. The hand of God, reaching down into the mire, couldn't elevate one of them to the depths of degradation!

• Dr. Enoch Downer : [Speaking to Wally Cook]  You're a newspaperman. I can smell 'em. I've always been able to smell 'em. Excuse me while I open the window?

• Dr. Enoch Downer : Take your stockings off!

  Hazel Flagg : You're the doctor, take 'em off yourself.

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Enoch Downer : Hazel! Hazel!

  Hazel Flagg : Yes, Enoch? What is it?

  Dr. Enoch Downer : Hazel! Hazel! Run for your life! Run for your life! The hotel is flooded!

• Dr. Enoch Downer : I brought you something. Raw eggs! Just what you need. the albumin counteracts the alcohol. Suck 'em right down. It'll settle your stomach. Go on! I got a whole dozen.

  Hazel Flagg : Is this the way drunks feel?

  Dr. Enoch Downer : Hazel, you've got what is known in medicine - as a hangover.

  Hazel Flagg : I've got something worst than that. I've got a conscience. Oou!

  Dr. Enoch Downer : Keep on suckin' that egg and your conscience will go away.

• Dr. Enoch Downer : From New York, huh? You don't happen to know of a newspaper called the "Morning Star"?

  Wally Cook : You have the honor, Dr. Downer, of addressing that newspaper's most gifted representative.

  Dr. Enoch Downer : Moses in the mountains! You're from the "Morning Star"?

• Dr. Enoch Downer : You can stop given yourself the heirs of a dying swan. According to this last analysis I made, you ain't a-going to die. Unless you get run over or something.

  Hazel Flagg : What?

  Dr. Enoch Downer : You heard me. I don't like to chew my cabbage twice.

  Hazel Flagg : You mean, you mean I-I-I'm not going to die?

  Dr. Enoch Downer : You're fitter than a fiddle!