Neptune's Daughter (1949)

Ted de Corsia: Lukie Luzette

Quotes 

• Lukie Luzette : Where's the mermaid tonight?

• Joe Backett : Don't you read the papers?

  Lukie Luzette : Only the race results.

• Lukie Luzette : Nice-looking guy, if you like the type.

  Joe Backett : And I don't.

• Lukie Luzette : Big game, eh? Any good bets around?

  Joe Backett : Lukie, this is a polo match, strictly society stuff. Fifty bucks is tops in the locker room.

  Lukie Luzette : Fifty bucks? That's birdseed. I bet that on traffic signals.

• Lukie Luzette : Now, listen, and get this straight. Go out to the Middlebrook Country Club tomorrow and pick up a polo player named José O'Rourke. Bring him here.

  Mac Mozolla : Suppose he don't wanna come?

  Lukie Luzette : Persuade him.

• Lukie Luzette : Know anything about polo?

  Mac Mozolla : Eh? What's his first name?

  Lukie Luzette : No, no, it's a game. Very fast. Played with a mallet and a ball.

  Mac Mozolla : Oh, you mean croquet.

• Lukie Luzette : You birdbrain. That isn't O'Rourke. That's some stupid-looking redheaded goon.

• Lukie Luzette : I got a big wad riding on Middlebrook.