Red Dust (1932)

Clark Gable: Dennis Carson

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• Barbara Willis : [watching the workers pouring liquid rubber]  Why, it's milk.

  Dennis Carson : Oh no, just rubber. But you could drink it if you care to stretch a point.

  Barbara Willis : Oh, I once knew a man who made a joke like that. He was run over by a truck.

  Dennis Carson : Were you driving it?

  Barbara Willis : Yes!

  Dennis Carson : Well, you're out of luck here. We only have ox-carts and every ox knows me personally.

• Dennis Carson : What's the matter with you? Are you crazy?

  Vantine : Just a little nauseated. This rain seems to have uncovered a pile of garbage around here.

  Dennis Carson : Stop looking through key holes. It's bad for the eyes.

• Dennis Carson : [after being slapped by Barbara]  All right. If that makes you feel any better.

• Barbara Willis : Don't you think I could be happy?

  Dennis Carson : Would you mind if I made it my job to see that you are?

• Vantine : You can check the wings and halo at the desk.

  Dennis Carson : I'll be right up.

• Dennis Carson : Come on, lets have it. Who are you? Where'd you come from?

  Vantine : Don't rush me, brother. I'm Pollyanna, the Glad Girl.

• Vantine : You're not going to leave the corpse here?

  Dennis Carson : It's his room. Didn't you know?

  Vantine : Honest I didn't. I just took the first room the houseboy showed me. Oh, please you guys. This place is full of lizards and cockroaches as it is.

  Dennis Carson : One more won't hurt.

• Dennis Carson : Now, you talk too much, but you're a cute little trick at that. Why haven't you been around before?

• Dennis Carson : Here you are kid.

  [stuffs some bills in Vantine's cleavage] 

  Dennis Carson : It isn't half enough, but, when I get down to Saigon, there'll be more. Keep your chin up.

  [pats Vantine twice on her behind] 

• Vantine : [taking a bath]  What's the matter? Afraid I'll - shock the duchess? Don't you suppose she's ever seen a French postcard?

  Dennis Carson : You'll let those curtains down if its the last bath you'll ever take!

• Dennis Carson : [naked, Vantine jumps in a rain barrel]  Get out of there! Say what's the idea?

  Vantine : What?

  Dennis Carson : Getting in that barrel?

  Vantine : Oh, I don't know? Maybe I'm goin' over Niagara Falls. Whoop!

• Dennis Carson : All those lame cracks won't help you any if I come back and find you've been annoying her.

  Vantine : Oh, I wouldn't touch her with your best pair of rubber gloves!

• Dennis Carson : Let me tell you this, I'm not a one woman man and I never have been and I never will be. If you want to take your turn...

• Dennis Carson : Look at those slugs!

• Dennis Carson : Why'd you get off the boat at all? You know it doesn't stop here again for four week, don't you?

  Vantine : Sure I do. Think I'm overjoyed about it? But, its just got to be, that's all.

  Dennis Carson : Well, then?

  Vantine : I left the boat here for the same reason I took it at Saigon.

  Dennis Carson : What reason?

  Vantine : I got mixed up in a little trouble and I thought I'd stay out of town 'til the Gendarmes forgot about it.

  Dennis Carson : And what a cast iron nerve you've got.

  Vantine : You have to have in my line. But, don't worry, big boy, I'll stay out from under foot. I'll even pay for my board if you insist on it nicely.

• Dennis Carson : Your hair always been that color?

  Vantine : Always been a towhead.

• Dennis Carson : Now, listen. This woman's decent. You watch your language and stop running around here half naked.

  Vantine : I'll stay as comfortable as I like.

• Barbara Willis : Well, apologies or even thanks are silly now. I just want you to know that - I owe you a great deal.

  Dennis Carson : I'll take your I.O.U.

• Barbara Willis : You mean you don't allow wives on your plantation?

  Dennis Carson : Women don't belong here - white or native.

• Barbara Willis : We shouldn't have done that.

  Dennis Carson : We did.

• Gary Willis : [eating dinner]  Those coolies are tough to handle, aren't they?

  Dennis Carson : Didn't I tell you they were a lazy bunch?

  Gary Willis : Well, I mean, I didn't know they were so sneaky about it. The minute you turn your back on 'em, they're up to something or other they shouldn't be doing.

  [Dennis and Barbara look at each other] 

  Gary Willis : Are they always like that?

  Dennis Carson : I'm afraid so.

  McQuarg : I was telling him about that time that Malay tried to knife you in the back.

  Vantine : Its a great country for that sort of thing.

• Dennis Carson : Listen, what goes on here is my business.

  Vantine : Suppose I were to tell that nice white kid? He'd make it his business, wouldn't he?

• Dennis Carson : Its a dirty, rotten country.

  Vantine : And we're dirty, rotten people, I suppose, eh?

  Dennis Carson : Sure.

• Vantine : Oh, Denny! Denny, does it hurt awful?

  Dennis Carson : Oh, stop blubbering.

• Dennis Carson : Come on, hurry up you sap!