great line...probly my favorite...partly cause i can do it with perfect nick charles pronunciation..lol..any other favorites? all the thin mans boil over with em...
"I killed your boy, sir"
Nick: We're all like that on my father's side.
Nora: How is your father's side?
Nick: Much better, thanks.
"It's as red as The Daily Worker and just as sore."
Nick: I was shot twice in The Tribune.
Nora: I read where you were shot five times in the tabloids.
Nick: It isn't true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids.
~I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state of a small city.~
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I think my favorite bit would have to be from After the Thin Man.
Nick (to get rid of the crowd of men surrounding Nora): Now Mommy, you know better than to come to a place like this your first day out of bed. What if the health officers find out? They'll put you right back in quarantine.
Nora: I won't stay in quarantine. I don't care who catches it! (The entire circle of men slowly back away.)
Hildy- Don't be hasty. Remember my dimple. Love, Walter.
slowly? lol they booked! love that part...
~When That Rope Starts To Pull Tight, You Can Feel The Devil Bite Your Ass~
LOL you got mine, I love that line.
Don't sweat the petty stuff and don't pet the sweaty stuff
What were you doing on the night of October 5, 1902?
I was just a gleam in my father's eye.
Waiter will you serve the nuts? I mean, will you serve the guests the nuts?
It's alright...it's my dog...and my wife.
Well you might have mentioned me first on the billing.
Women and children first boys! (Right after Nora falls in the beginning and is being helped up)
The next person who says Merry Christmas to me...I'll kill 'em!
I think it's a dirty trick, to bring me all the way to New York just to make a widow of me.
You wouldn't be a widow long...
You bet I wouldn't.
...not with all your money.
And the part in After Thin Man, when Nick is talking to Nora's aunt and he grabs her hearing aid, and says something like, At the sound of the tone, the time will be exactly 8 O'Clock. or later when he's in the room with all the older guys sleeping and is pretending they're having a conversation!
I LOVE THESE MOVIES!!! :)
OMG, I love every single reference you mentioned. While I could think up more, why bother? You've hit the highlights.
I too love these films!
And let's not forget...
"What's that man doing in my drawers??"
And I love Nora's answer to the Sullivan Act (gun control law) question:
"It's okay, we're married."
I always wondered about the "brunette" line since ML was actually a redhead. I guess you couldn't tell on screen and the Nora in the novel *was* a brunette, but still...
shareAnd the part in After Thin Man, when Nick is talking to Nora's aunt and he grabs her hearing aid, and says something like, At the sound of the tone, the time will be exactly 8 O'Clock. or later when he's in the room with all the older guys sleeping and is pretending they're having a conversation!
All Nick's cracks about marrying Nora for her huge inheritance were also gold.
shareAll the aforementioned lines are wonderful...as stated, The Thin Man is brimming with great lines. But my absolute favorite:
Myrna Loy: "Waiter, will you serve the nuts? I mean, will you serve the GUESTS the nuts?"
Hilarious!
"How do you feel?"
"Like the Kling-Klang King of the Rim-Ram Room!"
On Christmas Eve Nora begs to see her Christmas present and Nick tells her she has to keep them since the man at the pet store wouldn't take them back. I always figured he was saying he got her goldfish.
One of my favorite lines is in another Thin Man movie. Nora is knitting a baby bootie and Nick looks at it funny, then finally realizes she is pregnant. She says, "And you call yourself a detective." She had been giving him hints through the whole movie, "Do you have any pictures of yourself as a baby? (a hint she was on the nest and wondering what their child would look like) Do you want scrambled eggs? (middle of the night pregnancy cravings)."