The Front Page (1974)
Dick O'Neill: McHugh
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Quotes
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Mollie Malloy : I never said that I loved Earl Williams and was willing to marry him on the gallows. You made that up!
Murphy : Oh, come on. You've been sucking around that cuckoo ever since he's been in the death house.
McHugh : Everybody knows you're his soul-mate.
Mollie Malloy : That's a lot of bunk! Like all that other stuff you been writing. Calling me an Angel of the Pavement and the Midnight Madonna. Who ya kiddin'? I'm a two-dollar whore from Division Street and you know it!
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McHugh : Nobody but fairies goes into advertising.
Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson : [lisping with mock effeminacy] Thour grapeth!
[all laugh]
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McHugh : Roadblocks have been set up at all the main intersections. So far three police cars have smashed into them.
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McHugh : During the shootout Mrs. Phoebe deWolfe, age 33, watching from a window across the street, gave premature birth to a 5½ pound baby boy. Sheriff Deputies immediately examined the infant to make sure that it wasn't Earl Williams, who they knew was hiding *somewhere.*
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Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson : I got a few markers here. McHugh you owe me five bucks.
McHugh : I'll pay ya' tomorrow.
Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson : I won't be here tomorrow.
McHugh : I'll send it to ya'.
Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson : I'll bet it gets lost in the mail. Schwartz, six seventy-five.
Schwartz : For what?
Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson : For being a lousy poker player, that's what.
