Bulldog Drummond (1929)
Claud Allister: Algy
Quotes
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[first lines]
[In the silence of the club room, the waiter drops a spoon. Slowly the elderly Colonel stands up, and then...]
Colonel : Pah! The eternal din in this club is an outrage! I ask you, wot?
Algy Longworth : You're perfectly right, Colonel. We ought to complain. Do you know that's the third spoon I've heard drop this month?
Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond : Spoons, my hat. I wish that somebody would throw a bomb and wake the place up.
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Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond : I've been bored too long. I can't stand it any more. I'm too rich to work, too intelligent to play... much; I tell you, if something doesn't happen within the next few days, I'll explode.
Algy Longworth : I don't know what to suggest, dear old boy, unless you advertised... and you, you can't very well do that, can you?
Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond : I don't know, I might. I rather think that's an inspiration, Algy, by Jove I do! I didn't know you had it in you. Say, barman, give me a piece of paper and a pencil. Now, let's see: "To the Editor, Personal Column, The Times, London. Demobilized officer, finding peace unbearably tedious..."
Algy Longworth : Dear old boy, you're not serious!
[Dissolve to the printed ad, which states: "DEMOBILIZED OFFICER, finding peace unbearably tedious would welcome any excitement. Legitimate, if possible, but crime of humorous description, no objection. Reply at once- Box X 10, The Times."]
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Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond : Algy, if I wanted a bodyguard I should have sent for my maiden aunt.
Algy Longworth : Oh, I say!
Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond : Well, why not? She's more of a man than you are!
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Algy Longworth : My dear old boy. Danny and I have decided that if you will carry on with a voluptuous, blackmailing, breach-of-promise female, you'd much better do it in London where you can be near your lawyer