Miracles for Sale (1939)

Frank Craven: Dad Morgan

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• Dad Morgan : [in his son's shop: looking at a stage prop skull which moves its jaws up and down]  You must've been a woman. You know you're dead, but you're still trying to talk.

• Dad Morgan : [On the phone with Michael]  Should I bring the gun?... It's against the law to carry a gun in New York? Well, it's a fine time to tell me. I read where three fellows were found yesterday shot full of holes. What'd they shoot them with, saxophones?

• Dad Morgan : [to Duvallo]  New York is the only town I've ever been in that you could learn to hate in a day.

• Dad Morgan : [indicating the sign on his son's shop, "Miracles for Sale"]  Well, if you wanted to go into business, why didn't you open a butcher shop? Now, selling meat's a business, but, selling miracles - that's monkey business.

• Dad Morgan : Who drew all those funny marks on the floor?

  Michael Morgan : Ghosts.

  Dad Morgan : What?

  Michael Morgan : Ghosts!

  Dad Morgan : Ooh... I thought you said "goats." Well, how comes that you don't know that Siberian dungeon trick, and Duvallo does? He can't be very smart - he was born in New York...

• Michael Morgan : Don't stay up too late.

  Dad Morgan : I'm not going to go to bed until I've straightened out your books. This morning a fella sent you a bill for lumber, and I think he added in his weight and his mother-in-law's blood pressure.

  Michael Morgan : Okay, Dad.

• Dad Morgan : How comes that you didn't know that Siberian dungeon trick and Duvallo does? He can't be very smart. He was born in New York.

  Michael Morgan : Ah, I practically invented that trick. It's based on the principal that in an unsolvable mystery, the real facts are just the opposite of what they seem.

  Dad Morgan : Well, I was a little confused before, but now that you explained it, I'm bewildered.