Penthouse (1933)
Warner Baxter: Jackson Durant
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Quotes
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Oh, I've been stupid, very stupid.
Gertie Waxted : Well, of course. You're a man.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : [while dancing] Music is certainly a wonderful thing. I meet you, and five minutes later you're in my arms.
Gertie Waxted : Do you have to have music?
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : I don't know. Do I?
Gertie Waxted : I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate and degrade me.
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Gertie Waxted : So you're the man who put a grand piano in a girl's vanity case.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Oh, is that news all over town?
Gertie Waxted : Don't worry. I heard you were all right. You didn't demand down payment.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Well, don't you count on that. If I give you anything, I'll demand payment.
Gertie Waxted : [Bats eyelashes] I hate to be in debt.
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Gertie Waxted : Say, I'm hungry!
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Well, why didn't you yell?
Gertie Waxted : I didn't want to spoil your beauty sleep.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Oh, thoughtful as well as alluring, eh?
Gertie Waxted : Alluring?
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Well, you doubt it?
Gertie Waxted : Well, I did last night. I didn't exactly have to fight for my honor. A few more weeks of this and I'll be out of condition. Say, are you still in love with someone, or are you just decent?
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Maybe I think you're decent.
Gertie Waxted : A girl who comes into a man's apartment at night?
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Well, you might have come here just to look at the Chrysler Building.
Gertie Waxted : That must have been it.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : I'm going to take a shower. I'll be with you in just a minute.
Gertie Waxted : Well, I'm going out and shock the butler.
[Gets out of bed]
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[last lines]
Gertie Waxted : I can't marry you. I'll ruin you with all your friends. Why, I'm not even a lady.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : You're not, huh? Well, you'll do till a lady comes along.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : I'm afraid you think I'm taking advantage of you.
Gertie Waxted : I'm afraid you won't!
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : You probably know what kind of toothpaste I use.
Tony Gazotti : You don't. You're an old fashioned guy and use tooth powder.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Oh, you sure go into things.
Tony Gazotti : My boys combed you over plenty when you took my case. Why, I even know what mark you've got for algebra in your second year at St. Johns School. Ha-ha. You tell me, what is algebra?
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Tony, you're, you're, you're a dirty-minded little rat.
Tony Gazotti : There you go again! Boy, I like you!
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Sue Leonard : Jack, I wonder... could you forgive me?
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : What do you care whether I forgive you or not, as long as I do what you want? Why, of course I won't forgive you!
Sue Leonard : Why, you speak as though you hated me.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Why not? Why should you expect my love to last any longer than yours?
Sue Leonard : I never knew you could be so cruel. You've changed.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Yes. I salute the maker of that change.
[bows mockingly]
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : If you were ever guilty, I'd help to send you to the chair.
Tony Gazotti : I bet you'd let me fry, if the cops had the goods on me.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : You know I would. I'd give three cheers if you got what you deserved. You're a bad citizen Tony. Public welfare would be improved if you were rubbed out.
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Tony Gazotti : Gee, I never run across a guy like you. You can put the burn up on me and not only make me take it, but, like it. Why don't you reform and be my partner.
[Wink and a nod]
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Alright, ha-ha, I'll think it over Tony.
Tony Gazotti : Well, after all, I ain't a bad guy, am I?
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : You're a menace to civilization.
Tony Gazotti : Boy, I like you.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : There's a kick in fighting for a man's life. There's mystery! There's intrigue! I like the troubles of bootleggers, chorus girls and head waiters. They're human! They're alive!
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Sue Leonard : I've had four weeks to think this thing over. I can't see myself married to a gangster lawyer.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Gee, I'm sorry you feel that way about it.
Sue Leonard : So am I, but - well, let's call it a day, Jack.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : What time did they leave?
Layton : Right after you passed out, sir.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Well, I hope you took over my duties as host, Layton.
Layton : Yes sir, I took the big blonde home.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Take this away. Get me a drink.
Layton : But, Mr. Durant, are you going to continue this drinking?
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : I'll drink as long as I have a hangover and I'll have a hangover as long as I drink. It's a vicious circle Layton.
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Tony Gazotti : She's a grand kid. The kind you can take home for dinner and no hard feelings if you don't ask her to stay for breakfast.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Ha-ha. And no hard feelings if you do, huh?
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Gertie Waxted : Well, that's life in the big city. Where do we go from here? Of course, I'll stay here till dawn if you want me to. But, I'd whole lot rather go somewhere and cook a dish of eggs.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Do you want me to take you home?
Gertie Waxted : Your home or my home?
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Anywhere you like.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Well, then, your place is out. How 'bout mine? You know, I've got some eggs at my place that are just longing to be scrambled by you.
Gertie Waxted : Well, I hate to keep an egg waiting. Let's go.
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Gertie Waxted : Here it is.
[Hands Jack a key]
Gertie Waxted : The Oklahoma apartments.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Yes, I know it.
Gertie Waxted : Apartment 26A. Now, you'll find a suitcase in the closet, my clothes are in the bureau. Bring a, oh well, bring two of everything.
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Gertie Waxted : Oh, bring anything and a couple of hats.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Oh, I'm not going to bring you any hats. I don't want you to go out at all.
Gertie Waxted : [Teasingly] Please, Mr. Durant.
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Gertie Waxted : Well, I'll take a chance and stick with you.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : You're a peach.
Gertie Waxted : [Seductively] Am I?
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Tony, she's helped me a lot.
Tony Gazotti : Yeah.
[Sticks his tongue against the inside of his cheek]
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Tony, they're letting out sewer contracts in Brooklyn. You could sell your mind at a nice profit.
Tony Gazotti : Now, angel. Let it never be said of a Gazotti, that he intimated a lady might be indiscreet. Ha-ha. Gee, get that lingo? A gentlemen would never insinuate that one of the fair sex might be lacking in honor, your Honor. Boy, I can even talk like you.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Hey, Tony. You said you'd do something for me.
Tony Gazotti : Give you my right arm and I ain't no south paw.
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Gertie Waxted : So, you're going to drink, eh? Because I'm a double-crosser you're going to drink. Well, I didn't know I was that important to you.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : You're not.
Gertie Waxted : You can make a tramp out of yourself after I'm gone, if you want to. But you stay cold sober until you hear what I have to say. The trouble with you is you've mixed with gyps and double-crossers and two-timers until you don't believe anybody anymore. Just because your girl ditched you, you think we're all the same.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : You're the strangest girl I've ever met.
Gertie Waxted : You're a new one on me, too.
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : It's a long shot, a hundred to one.
Gertie Waxted : I'll take a chance.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : You sure you want to do it?
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Gertie, you're the grandest girl in the world.
Gertie Waxted : I'd rather be the cutest!
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Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Come on, now. Why not take it nice and easy? You were bound to get it sooner or later. A man can't be a killer without getting killed and what difference does it make to you whether its a bullet or a chair. It's comin' to you! I thought you had more nerve.
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Jackson Durant : As a matter of idle curiosity, will you tell me why I slept at that end?
Layton : You said you wished to sleep with your head toward the entrance.
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Jackson Durant : My advice to you is put your money in government bonds.
Stevens : Hmm, mmm. You can't cuddle up to a government bond.
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Jackson Durant : Yes, I vaguely remember I went to a party last night. Where was it?
Layton : Right here, sir.
Jackson Durant : Uh, did I have a good time?
Layton : Yes.
Jackson Durant : Good.
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Jackson Durant : You know, I've got some eggs at my place that are just longing to be scrambled by you.
Gertie Waxted : Well, I hate to keep an egg waiting. Let's go.'
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Layton : What is it, sir? What is it?
Jackson Durant : [after hanging up on a threatening phone call] Someone's just convinced me that Siddall is innocent.
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Jackson Durant : If I give you anything, I'll demand payment.
Gertie Waxted : I hate to be in debt.
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Jackson Durant : You may be betting your life.
Gertie Waxted : When I bet, I bet all.
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Tony Gazotti : How are you bud? Sit down, make yourself at home.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Wait, somebody with you?
Tony Gazotti : A couple of ladies.
Jackson 'Jack' Durant : Oh, you have to have two of them now, heh?