The St. Louis Kid (1934)

Spencer Charters: Messeldopp

Quotes 

• Messeldopp : [upon taking Eddie in the jail cell]  Mr. Richardson, this is Mr. Kennedy. Richardson's a horse doctor from Moline

  Eddie Kennedy : How are you?

  [shakes his hand] 

  Richardson : I'll bet it was a woman got you into this!

  Eddie Kennedy : Yeah - a woman had something to do with it. Why?

  Richardson : I knew it! They're the scourge of the earth.

  Eddie Kennedy : Oh. One of them put the bite on you?

  Richardson : Women - tyrants, destroying the freedom of mankind.

  Messeldopp : He's in for alimony.

  Eddie Kennedy : Yeah - I got that.

  Richardson : Why should I support a wife weighing 200 pounds? Have you any idea how much she eats?

  Eddie Kennedy : No, I never met the lady.

  Richardson : Ohh, it was a sad day when I asked her to be my wife.

  Eddie Kennedy : Why'd ya do it?

  Richardson : Well, she runs a boarding house and... I was behind with my bill.

  Eddie Kennedy : Ah - real, real love.

  [laughs] 

  Eddie Kennedy : That's what I like to see.