Animal Crackers

[about playing bridge] How do you want to play...honest?

Animal Crackers (1930 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Guests: Hooray for Captain Spaulding, the African explorer! Spaulding: Did someone call me schnorrer? Guests: Hooray, hooray, hooray!

Animal Crackers (1930 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Guests: He put all his reliance<br/>In courage and defiance<br/>And risked his life for science. Spaulding: Hey, hey! Mrs. Rittenhouse: He is the only white man who covered every acre... Spaulding: I think I'll try and make her... Guests: Hooray, hooray, hooray!

Animal Crackers (1930 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Mrs. Rittenhouse: You are one of the musicians, but you were not due until tomorrow. Ravelli: Couldn't come tomorrow, that's too quick. Spaulding: Say, you're lucky he didn't come yesterday. Ravelli: We were busy yesterday. But we charge just the same. Spaulding: This is better than exploring. What do you fellas get an hour? Ravelli: Oh, for playing, we get ten dollars an hour. Spaulding: I see. What do you get for not playing? Ravelli: Twelve dollars an hour. Spaulding: Well, clip me off a piece of that. Ravelli: Now for rehearsing, we make special rate: that's'a fifteen dollars an hour. Spaulding: That's for rehearsing? Ravelli: That's for rehearsing. Spaulding: And what do you get for not rehearsing? Ravelli: You couldn't afford it. You see, if we don't rehearse, we don't play. And if we don't play [snaps fingers], that runs into money. Spaulding: How much would you want to run into an open manhole? Ravelli: Just the cover charge. [Laughs with Mrs. Rittenhouse.] Spaulding: Well, dro

Animal Crackers (1930 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Hennessy: [to the Professor] You'd better come with me, young fellow! Spaulding: Don't take him away, Officer! He returned the paintings. [the Professor shakes Spaulding's hand] Pardon me, my name is Spaulding, and I've always wanted to meet you. Hennessy: ...All right. I'll let him go this time. [the Professor shakes his hand] But I want to give you some advice: you're running around with the wrong kind of people! Do you want to be a crook? [the Professor grins and nods, startling Hennesy; Ravelli and Spaulding both roll their eyes] Now, why don't you go home? Ravelli: He's got no home. Hennessy: Go home for a few nights, and stay home. [the Professor nods, removing his left hand from his belt and letting it hang, Hennessy claps him on the right shoulder gently] Don't you know your poor old mother sits there- Hennessy: Sits there, night af- [more silverware] Night after night. [more silverware] Waiting to hear your steps on the stairs. Ravelli: He's got no stairs. Hennessy: And I can

Animal Crackers (1930 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Ravelli: I've got Ace-a spades. He’s got Ace-a spades! Ha ha ha ha ha! That's what you called quinsidenses. Mrs. Rittenhouse: Two Aces of spades? Ravelli: Yeah, he's got thousands of them.

Animal Crackers (1930 film), CC BY-SA 4.0