A Free Soul (1931)

Clark Gable: Ace Wilfong

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• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : A lot of people don't believe that gag about being born equal.

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : You saw Miss Ashe in court, boys. Slouch, tell her why the Hardy mob tried to fix me up. Tell her the facts, Slouch.

  Slouch : Well, the mug that was rubbed out, Miss, was a snoop of the chief's runnin' with the Hardy mob, slippin' us the lowdown. Hardy gets hep to it and he puts the rat on the spot. They nab the boss's "kelly" and plants it. Your old man jaws him out and the Hardy mob grabs the typewriters and the ukeleles.

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Frightened?

  Jan Ashe : No, I love it.

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : You love what?

  Jan Ashe : Oh, I don't know. You're just a new kind of man in a new kind of world.

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Why did you cry for speed like that?

  Jan Ashe : Oh, I haven't the least idea.

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Yeah, I guess you figured I couldn't talk much at 100 miles per hour, eh?

  Jan Ashe : What do you mean?

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Why, if I told you how often I wished I'd have you like this, you wouldn't believe it.

  Jan Ashe : Why me? The world's full of girls.

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Well, why'd Romeo take on so much grief?

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Do you think you could like me?

  Jan Ashe : I don't quite know what's happened? Whether its just the end of a perfect day - or - whether I'm just a little mad.

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Well, it's about your daughter.

  Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : Jan? Well, what about her?

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Why, I want to marry her.

  Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : What? What was that?

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : What's the matter with that?

  Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : What's the matter with it? The only time I hate democracy is when one of you mongrels forget where you belong... a few illegal dollars and a clean shirt and you move across the railroad tracks. Tell your boy to bring me some libations, and don't insult your guests!

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Mr. Ashe, a guy like me has to ride with lady luck. A squealer leaves his pals in plenty of trouble.

  Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : Hmm, I see. You want to go to the gallows with your mouth shut.

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : That's all that marriage is, just two people that want to live together. You can call the rest, just nothin'! You're a thrill! You're mine, and I want ya!

  Jan Ashe : [Sarcastically]  Just the kind of a marriage I've always dreamed about.

• Jan Ashe : [Seductively]  Hello, there.

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Hello, yourself. Say, it's great to come up and find you here like this.

  Jan Ashe : Is it now? Well, what are you going to do about it?

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : I was just wondering what I'd do if you stopped dropping in?

  Jan Ashe : Very interesting. You just talked yourself out of the warmest osculation.

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Say, don't women ever want to talk?

  Jan Ashe : Is it, eh, physiology or biology?

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : What do you mean?

  Jan Ashe : Ha-ha. Men of action are better in action, they don't talk well.

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : You do love me, don't you?

  Jan Ashe : It's just madness, nothing else.

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : How much do you love me?

  Jan Ashe : How much? Let me see how much... well, it's about ten feet high and about seven feet wide.

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : No, no, never mind that.

  Jan Ashe : Oh, I can't measure it now, its a storm at sea.

• Jan Ashe : What's on your mind, darling?

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : I want to marry you.

  Jan Ashe : Why?

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Why? What do you think, why? I'm off my nut about you.

• Jan Ashe : Marrying you is serious, darn serious. It would mean the end of a lot of things for me. My world would close up on me in a minute.

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Oh, why worry about 'em! A lot of high hat chislers!

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : You think you're quite a gal, don't you?

  Jan Ashe : Oh, it doesn't matter what I think.

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : You can cut out the kiddin', Jan. You used to get away with that half-kiddin' stuff. I figured it was your language over my head.

• Jan Ashe : I didn't know until last night what I was really doing to myself. What a beast you were when the surface is scratched. I found out that only swines should travel with swines.

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Say, you're talkin' to the man you love!

  Jan Ashe : It makes me sick to even hear you say the word. I've lost the right ever again to think of what love can be or what it means. Marry you? For, the rest of my life can't wash the filthy mark of you out of my soul!

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : You can't get away from me. I never was as nuts about you as I am right now. You can be walking along the street or out in your car; but, I'll get ya. All I'm gonna do now is kiss ya.

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Now, let me lay it on the line for you. She tossed all the ritz overboard months ago. She came to my place and she stayed there, you get that? She's mine. She belongs to me.

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Listen, buddy. Take a tip. Back out! Right now.

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Sit down, this is a good place to talk.

  Dwight Winthrop : You're not going to talk, any more.

• Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : You know, I just happened to remember, I've had no dinner.

  Jan Ashe : Darn thoughtless. I forgot all about it.

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : How about you?

  Jan Ashe : That's right. The air was so thick at the family table, I ate almost nothing.

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : They have great hamburger with onions.

  Jan Ashe : Mmmm. Make it two.

  Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Two... with onions.