Public Hero Number 1 (1935)

Arthur Housman: Scottsdale Bar Drunk

Quotes 

• Doctor Josiah Glass : McManus, my cleaver.

  McManus the Bartender : Hello, Doc.

  [Hands him surgical tools] 

  Jeff Crane : There's your twenty dollars.

  McManus the Bartender : You the victim?

  Doctor Josiah Glass : [drunken slur]  No. I am going out into the storm to answer the cry of suffering and distress. McManus, it's on nights like this that I realize the novility of my profession. I serve humanity and you serve drinks. You may serve me a drink, McManus, on the house.

  Jeff Crane : You may not.

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Might as well. You won't get back on that road tonight. Am I right?

  [gesturing to drunk] 

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : He just washed in.

  Scottsdale Bar Drunk : [Drunken slur]  Crick overflowed the Sandswell bridge.

  Jeff Crane : We've got to get through.

  Doctor Josiah Glass : I'm on a case.

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : And two bottles to go.

  Scottsdale Bar Drunk : [Drunken slur]  Better wait till it stops raining. The bridge is under three feet of water.

  Doctor Josiah Glass : Water! Water ruins everything. Now if that bridge was under three feet of whiskey...