- Lee Donley: [picking up a cigarette dropped by Gloria] I believe this is how the Chicago fire got started.
- Gloria Anderson: The Chicago fire was started by a cow.
- Lee Donley: History repeats itself.
- Lee Donley: [to Nick] I don't want to put you out. I'll take in washing for my room and board.
- Wally Davis: [slightly laciviously] Well, I got a couple of buttons that could stand sewing.
- Lee Donley: [sarcastically] Shirts, I suppose.
- Mr. Steve Case: [walking in while Lee and Nick are kissing] Necking like a couple of high school kids!
- Lee Donley: [wisecracking] You interrupted a post-graduate course.
- Lee Donley: I know you. You're the kid who used to tie firecrackers on dog's tails.
- Steve Case: Yeah, and I just did it again.
- Wally Davis: It wasn't Nick's fault about that ex-wife of yours. He kept telling you she was no good.
- Steve Case: He didn't have to prove it personally.
- Wally Davis: Oh, but he did it for your sake, Steve.
- Gloria Anderson: I'll lend you some night clothes. I think we have an old cot, I'll have it put up. If you don't mind primitive accommodations.
- Lee Donley: No, I don't mind. Up in San Antonio, I slept on a cot all the time.
- Gloria Anderson: The army, I presume.
- Lee Donley: You should know.
- Gloria Anderson: Nick, come into the house and let me fix your shoulder.
- Lee Donley: [to Gloria's husband] Touching little drama entitled, "The Nurse's Curse or Florence Nightingale Among the Bananas".
- Rosario: Señorita, I cannot understand it. There is an old native proverb, "Beautiful horses always love mules."
- Police Chief Juan Rodriguez: [arguing with Case on the phone] After a good night's sleep a man doesn't mind being shot, but during siesta?
- [a pause while he listens]
- Police Chief Juan Rodriguez: All right, all right! Si, senor. We... we give him a permanent siesta - we shoot him right away.
- Police Chief Juan Rodriguez: Rosario, you no longer have to worry about eating. We are going to shoot you.
- Rosario 'Rosie' La Mata: Sooner or later everybody dies. It's too bad I am sooner.
- Mr. Steve Case: [after hearing Rosario has escaped] Don't tell me that Donley dame had her mob down here there and rescued her too?
- Police Chief Juan Rodriguez: Oh, she's safe under key and lock.
- Mr. Steve Case: She better be, and she's out of town on that boat, or you'll be on the next one, medals and all!
- Police Chief Juan Rodriguez: Mr. Case, I must remind you I was elected by the people.
- Mr. Steve Case: Yes, and they're finally wise to you. Bet those brass buttons the next time they go to the polls, they'll throw you right out of office.
- Police Chief Juan Rodriguez: Mr. Case, I don't believe in a Third Term.
- Nick Butler: Oh, Lee, if you see Case, give him a kiss for me.
- Lee Donley: Not even a foreign general would kiss that guy!
- Lee Donley: Why don't you send that mind of yours out and have it dry-cleaned.
- Nick Butler: What's the use? Look at the company I'm in.
- Lee Donley: You won't be for long!
- Lee Donley: [as Gloria enters] Here comes Malicious.
- Nick Butler: Can that talk!
- Lee Donley: Well, some days a girl can't make a cent!
- Gloria Anderson: I don't imagine you have any trouble.
- Lee Donley: Why do you malk around making noises like a lady? All a guy has to do is wink and he hits the jackpot.
- [Gloria turns around and leaves]
- Gloria Anderson: [cutting off Nick's shirt so she can dress his wound] Oh, did I hurt you?
- Nick Butler: [sarcastically] Oh, no. How could you hurt me by sticking a scissors in my arm?
- Steve Case: Where do you think you're going?
- Lee Donley: New York. Maybe, Chicago.
- Nick Butler: Make it New York.
- Gloria Anderson: But, Nick, aren't you going to Chicago?
- Nick Butler: Sure.
- Gloria Anderson: Oh, I get it!
- [looking at Lee]
- Gloria Anderson: You finally stepped down to your own level!
- Lee Donley: That's still about three floors above you.
- Police Chief Juan Rodriguez: Mr. Case, we did not shoot Rosario.
- Wally Davis: You didn't shoot him? Why not?
- Police Chief Juan Rodriguez: Because he... he escaped.
- Wally Davis: Well, that's a good reason.
- Mr. Steve Case: Whoever made you Chief of Police - you can't handle a simple job like shooting a man.
- Police Chief Juan Rodriguez: Mr. Case, Rosario's men stormed the jail yard - 18, maybe 20 of them. But don't worry, I have clues. I shall capture him again, easily, within several months.
- Wally Davis: Why don't you wait till he dies of old age.
- Nick Butler: Come on, hand over that dough.
- Lee Donley: What are you talking about?
- Nick Butler: The three hundred bucks you clipped me for last night.
- Lee Donley: Well, I never tagged you for a bad loser.
- Nick Butler: And I never tagged you for a phony shuffle either.
- Lee Donley: Now, wait a minute, Mister. You've got yours all off the top. I just had the run of luck.
- Nick Butler: I know that kind of house luck. Now, hand it over!
- Lee Donley: I haven't got it.
- Nick Butler: Haven't got it, huh? Want me to turn you upside down and shake it out of you?
- Wally Davis: Can I stand here and watch?
- Lee Donley: Look, I haven't got it. I hid it in town last night.
- [Nick picks Lee up, turns her upside down, starts shaking her up and down]
- Lee Donley: All right, all right, handsome. Put me down! I'll give it to you!
- Lee Donley: Hi, Mr. Garcia. It went over big, didn't it?
- Garcia: You were wonderful, Señorita! But, you are fired.
- Lee Donley: What's the big idea of giving me the hustle?
- Steve Case: We don't want American girls entertaining in Puerto Aguilar. It causes trouble.
- Lee Donley: Look, Mister, you got me wrong. I can handle these sun-kissed Romeos. All I wanna do is earn a few bucks and I'll be on my way.
- Steve Case: You're on your way right now.
- Wally Davis: I don't see Nick.
- Steve Case: Probably playing tag with some dame.
- Wally Davis: Well, there ain't no law against that, is there?
- Steve Case: The way he plays it, there is.
- Daniels: Migrate sister.
- Lee Donley: Pick up my luggage, porter, and go easy with it or you don't get a tip.
- Daniels: Tote 'em yourself, lady.
- Lee Donley: Once a gentleman, always a gentleman.
- [Daniels grabs her arm]
- Lee Donley: Say, wise guy, stop trying to prove the hand's quicker than the eye. Don't get the idea you can kick me around. I'll let you have one! You push me one more time, you'll wear this suitcase as a necklace.
- Daniels: That'll land you right in the brig. Now, come on, this ain't no tea party.
- Steve Case: Looks like you're on your way, sister.
- Lee Donley: All right, Case. This time, you have the winning hand. But don't forget, Cutie, comes a new deal and I might have the cards.
- Steve Case: Sure, if you deal them, you will. So long, babe.
- Lee Donley: Come on, boys. We're in bad company.
- Steve Case: What about that train?
- Gardner: Well, it left the plantation six hours ago.
- Steve Case: Six hours ago? Seventy-eight miles and hear they left six hours ago? I could make better time with a pogo stick.
- Steve Case: Why, that flea-bitten Casanova and his corny gag. Here, file that.
- Sam: Yes, sir.
- Steve Case: In the wastebasket.
- Steve Case: That gilt-edged chiseler!
- Wally Davis: Well, maybe so. He's the best man we ever had around here.
- Steve Case: Well, that's no recommendation.
- Bob Anderson: Look, Mr. Case, it took the natives that long to load the train. I tried to hurry them.
- Steve Case: Well, stop drooling. Nick Butler used to hurry 'em. Kick them around or they'll kick you around.
- Steve Case: [on the phone with the Chief of Police] Quit pampering that hoodlum. Take him out and shoot him today.
- Rodriguez: But, Señor, it is not sunrise... Sí, Señor, there is no law about sunrise. It is just a custom. After a good night's sleep, a man doesn't mind being shot. But during siesta... All right, all right, sí, Señor. We give him a permanent siesta. We shoot him right away.
- Nick Butler: Hello. I'm Nick Butler, chairman of the entertainment committee. Can we depend upon you for our shuffleboard tournament?
- Lee Donley: I'm afraid you play a little rough.
- Nick Butler: I can ease off for the ladies, Miss...
- Lee Donley: Donley, Lee Donley. Thanks for taking care of my centipede friend.
- Nick Butler: I'll be seeing you later.
- Lee Donley: Going all the way?
- Nick Butler: Right to the end of the line.
- Nick Butler: How's my successor in number seven gettin' on?
- Steve Case: Who, Anderson? Oh, he turned out great. A real scientific fruit-grower.
- Nick Butler: Scientific, huh? I suppose by now, he's growing bananas with zippers on 'em.
- Steve Case: Nick, you're lookin' swell.
- Nick Butler: Oh, Look at the Captain of the all-American rat team. You know, Sweetheart, I ought to belt you right in the puss for sending me down that swamp.
- Gloria Anderson: Nick, why should I draw a blank like Anderson?
- Nick Butler: Oh, like a lot of good-looking gals, you think the right guys are like streetcars. Miss one, another one will be along in five minutes. Always waiting for Prince Charming on that white horse. Well, there aren't enough of them to go around. Most guys are just like me, plain mugs.
- Gloria Anderson: If a mug like you had been around, I wouldn't be here.
- Nick Butler: Can you put her up?
- Gloria Anderson: Oh, I suppose we can find room for her somewhere.
- Lee Donley: Oh, don't strain yourself, Mrs. Anderson. I can always sleep in a tree... .
- Gloria Anderson: Hereditary?
- Nick Butler: Didn't you know what you were letting yourself in for when you came down here with him?
- Gloria Anderson: All I know is what I read in the travel folder: "Soft tropical breezes. Gay romantic couples finding ecstatic happiness under the silvery Caribbean moonlight. A green paradise, where idyllic romance and lazy comfort walk hand in hand."
- Nick Butler: [to Lee] If you think you're going to use this plantation as a hideout, you're daffy. You're going right back to town on the next train.
- Wally Davis: That's tomorrow.
- Nick Butler: [to Wally] Then, it's your job to pack her with the bananas and unload her at Puerto Aguilar.
- Wally Davis: Well, have you got any more jobs like that?