A Handful of Clouds

A Handful of Clouds (1930)

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O'Grady: It's too bad to see a swell kid like you in this racket. Why don't you get out of it while the breaks are in your favor. The best you'll get is the worst of it. Why be a sap?

Louie: You know, I was just thinkin', if I'd been born a couple a hundred years ago, I might've been as big a man as Napoleon.

Louie: Give me my violin case, will ya?

Louie: You fellas heard what I said at the opening of this meeting and what I said then goes just as it lays. Any mug that don't think so, will be treated to the swellest funeral that ever stopped traffic.

Louie: Hello, Punch drunk, how's everything?
Mileaway: Not so hot.

Louie: How do you like it, sucker! I oughta give you a little of that heat, just for luck.

Jackie: Let me see that sword again. Isn't it a pip! Oh, boy.

Kitty - Fortune Teller: Say, Jane, has Whitey been double-crossing anybody lately?
Jane: No.
Kitty - Fortune Teller: Well, I don't know. These cards read awfully funny.

Midget: Well, I know this, Louie belongs back here - and I'm gonna find a way to.
Mileaway: If you don't watch your step, you're gonna find a way to treat yourself to a handful of clouds.
Midget: What do ya mean a handful of clouds?
Mileaway: I mean the kind that comes out of the end of a 38 automatic.

Louie: I was just wondering how it would feel to be shot in the stomach as big and as fat as yours.

Rocco: Well, get this: I run my own business, do you hear? I don't need no punk like you tellin' me nothin'! Why? Because I'm just as big as you are and bigger. When one man's gonna run this town, I'll be him, see.

Louie: Oh, your sick of it, huh? What have you got to be sick of? Are you one of 'em too? Have you got so much hoodlum in you that it won't come out? Well, I'm through with the game. I told you that and I'm through.

Doris: Say, did he tell ya yet, he's really quittin' the racket?
Mileaway: No. I guess he's saving that for the blow off.

Hymie - a gangster: We agreed to Louie's proposition, we pay him for protection, and now he gives us the breeze.
Midget: Yeah, you mean he turned rat! That's what you mean.
Mileaway: Why you dirty grease ball! You wouldn't have the guts to pull that if Louie was within 20 miles of here.

Louie: Now, there's a lot of you mugs I never met before. So, I thought it was about time we got together. Seein' that I've been takin' the rap for all the suckers you guys been pushin' around the country lately. Of course, most of you guys knew me when I was a kid in short pants - a runner for a tough mob of south-side cannons. A punk who knew how to keep his mouth shut.

Louie: Oh, Hymie, Mileaway will take my place.

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