The 39 Steps (1935)

Gus McNaughton: Commercial Traveller

Quotes 

• Commercial Traveller : [reading a newspaper headline]  "Woman murdered in West End flat."

  Commercial Traveller : These sex dramas don't appeal to me.

• Commercial Traveller : For one thing, they're much prettier than they were 20 years ago.

  Commercial Traveller : More free. Free and easy.

  Commercial Traveller : You're right there. I could never understand how people used to put up with the old-fashioned sort. All bones and no bend.

  Commercial Traveller : Well, I will say for the old-fashioned, they did last longer.

  Commercial Traveller : Oh, I don't know. Mine last about a year. Here, I'll show you. Big demand for these now.

  [brings out a corset] 

  Commercial Traveller : The old-fashioned sort.

  Commercial Traveller : Brrr! My wife.

  Commercial Traveller : Now look at these.

  [brings out a new style girdle] 

  Commercial Traveller : Our new Streamline Model Number 1. What I've been talking to you about.

  Commercial Traveller : Anything go with it?

  Commercial Traveller : I should say so. This.

  [brings out a brassiere] 

  Commercial Traveller : Put a pretty girl inside those, and she needn't be ashamed of herself anywhere.

  Commercial Traveller : All right. Bring it back to me when it's filled.

• Commercial Traveller : Well, if that isn't the blasted limit.

  Commercial Traveller : What's the matter now?

  Commercial Traveller : Is there no honesty in this world? I ask you.

  [reading an advertisement in a newspaper] 

  Commercial Traveller : "The new Bodyline rubber panty corset. On sale today. McCutcheon Brothers, Princess Street. Price: 17 and 9. Brassiere to match: 4 and 11." Did you get that? The Bodyline. One and three cheaper than our Streamline. No use going to Aberdeen now!