House of Women (1962)

Andrew Duggan: Warden Frank Cole

Quotes 

• Warden Frank Cole : [discussing cutting prison expenses]  There are other expenses that can be cut, too. Electricity- from now on all radios and lights off a half hour earlier.

  Zoe Stoughton : But the inmates would consider that a disciplinary measure, warden.

  Warden Frank Cole : Good. It'll wake 'em up to a change that's going to happen around here.

  Dr. F.M. Conrad : Well, Mr. Lathrop, the last warden, had a different...

  Warden Frank Cole : [interrupts]  That's why he's no longer here.

  Dr. F.M. Conrad : He felt the welfare of the inmates was more important than a few dollars.

  Warden Frank Cole : The welfare of the inmates? Pickpockets, check kiters, blackmailers, drunks, prostitutes, hopheads... coming in and out of here as through a revolving door. I'm sorry, but I have no use for any of them.

  Dr. F.M. Conrad : I still think they're human beings.

  Warden Frank Cole : I'm not even sure of that. That's all.

  [meeting ends] 

• Warden Frank Cole : Your record says you used to be a stripteaser.

  Candy Kane : Oh, that sounds so inelegant. When I was a stripteaser they used to call it bein' a extra-dysiast.

  Warden Frank Cole : You mean an "ecdysiast".

  Candy Kane : Well, I never did know how to pronounce it. But they say I sure did know how to do it.

  Warden Frank Cole : I'm sure you did.