Scared Stiff (1953)
Dean Martin: Larry Todd
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Quotes
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Larry Todd : Look, I'll save you a lot of time: I'm a ghostbuster.
Mr. Cortega : A what?
Larry Todd : Why you've heard of trustbusters, and bronco busters, and gangbusters? Well I'm a ghostbuster. So watch it, Buster.
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Mary Carol : Larry, why are you so nice to me?
Larry Todd : I don't know, I guess I've always been a sucker for girls named Mary Carol.
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Larry Todd : Hi, Rosie. Mmm... crazy!
Rosie : Oh, Larry, I'm just an average girl.
Larry Todd : Honey, if you're an average girl, I've been going out with boys.
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Larry Todd : Now you take her in your arms and you kiss her. How do you feel about that?
Myron Mertz : Oh, I like it! I like it!
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Rosie : [after a long kiss] Am I going to see you later?
Larry Todd : You certainly are.
Rosie : I know a wonderful place for just the two of us.
Larry Todd : Yeah, where?
Rosie : In a telephone booth
Larry Todd : [after a lingering kiss he ogles her] Remind me to bring along plenty of dimes.
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Mary Carol : You killed a perfect stranger?
Larry Todd : Nobody's perfect!
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Myron Mertz : Hey, Larry, show business really gets in your blood, don't it?
Larry Todd : First you gotta have some.
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Larry Todd : We're going up to that castle!
Myron Mertz : What about that old woman?
Larry Todd : Oh, she's only trying to scare us.
Myron Mertz : Well, she's doing a really good job of it!
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Larry Todd : Lafayette, we are here.
Myron Mertz : [after an animal screeches loudly] I think Lafayette's here too.
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Myron Mertz : What's the matter?
Larry Todd : One of Shorty's men. He's looking for us.
[Myron goes in the trunk]
Myron Mertz : Is he coming?
Larry Todd : No, he's just standing there looking around.
[One of Shorty's goes into the ship]
Larry Todd : Yeah, he's gone now.
Myron Mertz : Don't you worry, 'cause if he comes, I am going to stop him with one word.
Larry Todd : What's that?
Myron Mertz : HELP!
Larry Todd : [slaps the trunk] Ah, shut up you idiot, before you do get him down here.
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Larry Todd : I don't mind dying, lady - it's the preliminaries I hate.
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Larry Todd : Now look, baby, it's just like I said. We're all washed up. I don't mind competing with a French waiter, but when it comes to double-crossing the Big Boy, you can include me out.
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Larry Todd : [singing] Well, you hit the spot, Like a pipe and slippers by a fireside, Matter of factly, don't know exactly, What it is that you've got, But, you hit the spot...
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Larry Todd : [singing] Well, it's no fun with the sun around, But I get going when the sun goes down, And I - meet my baby, That's when we kiss and kiss and kiss, And then we kiss some more, Who cares how many times we kiss? Well, at a time like this who keeps score?
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Myron Mertz : Wow! Must've been pretty crowded in there, huh?
Larry Todd : Oh, you can say that again.
Myron Mertz : Wow! It must've been pretty crowded in there, huh?
Larry Todd : Oh, why don't you shut up?
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Mary Carol : What is this?
Larry Todd : Don't talk. Especially, don't scream. If there's gonna be any hysterics around here, I'll have them.
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Myron Mertz : I'm onto your game, Larry. You ain't got me fooled. You're risking our lives for that girl. I know you. Just 'cause she's beautiful and she has luscious lips, a beautiful figure and she's pretty and her hair is shiny and silky and. - you know something?
Larry Todd : What?
Myron Mertz : I don't blame you.
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Larry Todd : Myron, it's cut and dried. Either you play ball with me - or Shorty plays taps for you.
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Larry Todd : I'm not going back to New York. I'm going to Cuba.
Myron Mertz : Cuba! Are you crazy?
Larry Todd : Yeah, I'm crazy about Cuba. Everybody should see Cuba.
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Larry Todd : Well, there's nothing like an ocean voyage to bring people together. Deck tennis. Gypsy violins. Gay crowd in the cocktail lounge. Then after dinner, champagne, dancing, bridge, moonlight, moonlight nights.
Mary Carol : And warnings of death.
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Larry Todd : Well, if you can't get the original, you gotta use a substitute.
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Mary Carol : Larry, I don't know what I'd do if you weren't here. You've been just wonderful.
Larry Todd : I have? I've been called a lot of things but never wonderful.
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Myron Mertz : Hey, Larry, there's the pumper.
Larry Todd : Go ahead, pump it.
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Larry Todd : [singing] Pay him with your lilting laughter, It's your happiness he's after
Larry Todd , Carmelita Castinha : If you're happy, we are happy, too
Myron Mertz : I'm with you!
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Larry Todd : [singing] Come gather round for the song, Of the enchilada man, And for a treat good to eat, There's nothing better than, Enchiladas so nice and hot, Enchiladas I got, I got...