Union Depot (1932)

Guy Kibbee: Scrap Iron Scratch

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• Scrap Iron Scratch : You just can't keep away from windows with bars, can you, Chick?

  Charles 'Chick' Miller : Oh, bars ain't half bad, Scrap Iron, not when you're on the outside lookin' in.

• Scrap Iron Scratch : [to Chick]  Hey, I'd rather starve than eat those vagrancy beans again.

• Scrap Iron Scratch : [Last lines]  Gentleman for a day.

  Charles 'Chick' Miller : [as they walk down the tracks]  C'mon. Let's get goin'.

• Scrap Iron Scratch : Gee, what is it, a fiddle?

  Charles 'Chick' Miller : [holding a violin case]  No, a piano.

• Scrap Iron Scratch : I'm starvin' and you ask me riddles.

  Charles 'Chick' Miller : Riddles or not, I'm heading straight for a dining room with soft, soothin' music, a table sitting right next to a kitchen, a good lookin' waitress just strivin' to please. Say, how would you like, right now, a thick porterhouse steak, just smothered in onions? Brown potatoes bobbin' up and down in country gravy? A flock of hot biscuits and some honey on the side? A cut of raisin pie? And a cup of coffee? Could you go for that?

• Scrap Iron Scratch : Say, you ain't turned gigolo, have you?

  Charles 'Chick' Miller : No. Still a sucker. Santi Claus in wolf's pajamas.

• Scrap Iron Scratch : Say, Chief, does that pass go for me too?

  Kendall : Sure. But, I ought to throw you in the hoosegow on general principals.

  Scrap Iron Scratch : General who? I never heard of him.

  Police Officer Bert Brady : It's going to be cold winter, hobo. Maybe you'll wish you were back at that hoosegow!

  Scrap Iron Scratch : Say, I can always get in if I change my mind. Where I'm going, there ain't no winter. No snow. No ice. Nothing but palm trees and pineapples and beautiful gals singing love songs.