Bad Bascomb (1946)
Wallace Beery: Zeb Bascomb
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Quotes
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Zeb Bascomb : [after finding Emmy alone outside of camp] Why, Emmy.
Emmy : Go away, Zeke. Don't you dare touch me.
Zeb Bascomb : How do you know it's Zeke, honey? Why, you ain't even looked.
Emmy : I don't want to look. I don't want to ever see you. I just want to die.
Zeb Bascomb : That ain't no nice way to talk after all the trouble I had finding you. What made you skip out?
[He leans down to touch her]
Emmy : [Emmy turns with a shotgun] I'll shoot!
Zeb Bascomb : Well, I guess, ain't no use in asking for mercy once a woman's got her mind made up. I did think you had more feeling for me though.
Emmy : You said I was stealing and it ain't true.
Zeb Bascomb : Well, I know. I was wrong, I'm sorry.
Emmy : You were going to give me a belt in the snoot.
Zeb Bascomb : Well, I thought you knew that I was just testin' ya.
Emmy : What's testin'?
Zeb Bascomb : Seein' if you love me.
Emmy : Were you testin' when you pushed me and said you wanted me to catch the measles?
Zeb Bascomb : That is my number one test. Measles couldn't even light on you, you're too wiggly.
Emmy : You care for anybody special, Zeke?
Zeb Bascomb : What difference does it make? I ain't got long to live anyway.
Emmy : Maybe I won't shoot ya.
Zeb Bascomb : Well, what you got to do, you got to do.
Emmy : I don't know how to work this very good anyway.
[Hands him the shotgun]
Zeb Bascomb : You sure could have fooled me, alright.
Emmy : Would you have took the ring if grandma had give it to ya?
Zeb Bascomb : Why should I?
Emmy : She likes you. Why do you play cruel all the time?
Zeb Bascomb : Oh, why do you poison gophers?
Emmy : Will you marry her?
Zeb Bascomb : Now I know you're sick.
Emmy : Just sort of look after her. I may not always be around.
Zeb Bascomb : Yes, yes, you... You are gettin' mighty old. Mighty old. I kind of thought though that you was waiting for me.
Emmy : You wouldn't want a wart.
Zeb Bascomb : Didn't you know that I meant just the opposite?
Emmy : What's the opposite to a wart?
Zeb Bascomb : The op... It's a dimple, a pretty little dimple.
Emmy : A dimple?
Zeb Bascomb : Mm-hmm.
Emmy : You mean I'm a dimple?
Zeb Bascomb : That's right.
Emmy : I like that.
Zeb Bascomb : Sure.
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Emmy : you don't care for all women, do you, Zeke?
Zeb Bascomb : No, only one. I don't know why I should because she's just as homely as an old mud fence.
Emmy : Am I?
Zeb Bascomb : I was only foolin'.
Emmy : No, it's no joke to be homely.
Zeb Bascomb : You're beautiful. You got the cutest little pug nose.
Emmy : Grandma says that's where the sun kissed me. Didn't the sun ever kiss you?
Zeb Bascomb : What, this homely mug of mine? No.
Emmy : Oh, you're not homely, Zeke. You're P-R-I-T-Y.
Zeb Bascomb : You. You still got river water in your eyes.
Emmy : Honest you are, Zeke. Why don't you kiss me?
Zeb Bascomb : Oh, no, I'd... No. Well, I was just thinkin' about that.
[Kisses her on the forehead]
Emmy : Oh, that's no kiss. Like this.
[Kisses him on the cheek and hugs him]
Emmy : I can hear your heartbeat. Clunk-a-dee, clunk-a-dee, clunk-a-dee.
Zeb Bascomb : I guess it's pulling a pretty good load.
