Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)

Phil Foster: Joe

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Quotes 

• Henry Wiggen : These are Fifth and Two. Fifth and Queen.

  Joe Jaros : Red Rooster.

  [long pause, then Tegawar Player lays a 3. Joe slams down his cards] 

  Joe Jaros : BANJO! Ha-HAAAA! That's the first natural Banjo since the days of Joe Dimaggio in St. Petersburg.

  Henry Wiggen : Hey, wait a minute. Fifteen and Fifteen's Thirty-One.

  Tegwar Player : Hey, what's the name of this game?

  Joe Jaros : Fifteen and Fifteen is Thirty-TWO!

  Henry Wiggen : Thirry-T... oh, that's right.

  [to Tegwar player] 

  Henry Wiggen : That's a Double Honeybees.

  Tegwar Player : I'm not too sure if I'm clear on some of these new rules.

  Joe Jaros : What new rules? There hasn't been any rules changes since the Black Sox Scandal, 1919. Big League Tegwar's Big League Tegwar known to every big-time ballplayer from Boston to California.

• Joe Jaros : Can you beat a Coney Island Thirty?

  Bruce Pearson : What about this Double Ace Deucer?

  Joe Jaros : I wish ya a lot of luck with it.