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Joe E. Brown slips in an expletive!?

posted 9 years ago by stanleybix-1
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While writing a letter to one of his girlfriends, he crumbles it up and pensively says "S*#+....., I'll tell her in person". I thought I was hearing things, but there it is, clear as day.

[–] kelkyl 9 years ago

Heard it too.

There's definitely a "sh" followed by a "t", and it clearly was not "shoot"!

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[–] joeparkson 9 years ago

The movie was precode. They weren't too careful then.

Soy 'un hijo de la playa'

[–] durham2911 9 years ago

Just saw it and he says "Shucks, I'll tell her in person". Not a word you hear a lot these days, but pretty common in the '30's. He says it a number of times in the movie.

[–] greenbudgie (2355) a year ago

Boy Wonder Robin got away with saying "Holy Shucks" in a 1960s Batman episode.