Destry Rides Again (1939)

Mischa Auer: Boris Callahan

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Quotes 

• Boris : All I want is to be a cowboy and to wear my own pants!

• Boris : Observe my brain in action. Now where would I go if I were a dead body? Would I stay in the open? No - no privacy.

  Tom Destry Jr. : Mm-hmm. Wouldn't go in the river if you can't swim.

  Washington Dimsdale : Why didn't I stay in the gutter where I was well off?

  Boris : Would I go under the ground? No - there's no future in it.

• Tom Destry Jr. : What are my pants doin' on your legs?

  Boris : These are the legs of a Stavrogin of Bardicheff. Let your pants remain on them and earn their gratitude. Refuse - and take their curse.

  Tom Destry Jr. : I think I'll take both the curse and the pants.

• [Boris has bet and lost his pants in game of poker] 

  Boris : Frenchy, think of my position. I've met every king in Europe!

  Frenchy : Now you've met two aces in Bottleneck. Off with your pants.

• Lily Belle : Take off them pants!

  Boris : Oh, now listen here my little sugar plum, you all can't do this to me.

  Lily Belle : I'll you all you, you misfit cossack, you. Take off them pants!

  Boris : Now, listen, Lilly Bellish, I can't keep goin' around without pants!

  Lily Belle : You ain't goin' around. Take off them pants.

  Boris : Oh! How can I learn to be a cowboy if you won't let me go out and gamble?

  Lily Belle : A fine gambler you are. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, losing your pants!

• Jack Tyndall : Are you women crazy? Get back!

  Kent : Get outta the way, you women!

  Boris : Get back! Get back!