The Lady Eve Page #3

Synopsis: Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding causes them to split on bad terms. To get back at him, Jean disguises herself as an English lady, and comes back to tease and torment him.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
1941
94 min
1,067 Views


Do that again, will you?

Amazing.

How do you do it?

You palm it in this hand. You grip it

in the palm of the hand like this.

- It takes a good deal of practice.

- I can well imagine it might.

Amazing. It's good I know who you are

or I wouldn't play cards with you.

Sir?

- You didn't really think that, uh...

- Oh, of course not, silly.

- You look as honest as we do.

- Three brandies.

- Washington and Valley Forge.

- Dewey and Manila.

Napoleon and Josephine.

- Say, how about a rubber of bridge?

- You're probably too good for us.

I don't have to play my best.

Besides, playing with you...

- would always be a pleasure.

- Aren't you sweet?

Who'll we get for a fourth?

Isn't there a three-handed game?

I seem vaguely to remember having...

Of course there is, and it'll be

much cozier. Will you shuffle?

- Well, I'll try.

- Every man for himself.

- I, uh, what?

- Um.

Oh. Well...

You go up the Amazon for a year,

and then you come out and meet you...

- I'll be a cockeyed cookie pusher!

- Ha!

- What's the matter now?

- Come on, deal them shingles.

You don't happen to have some beautiful

damsel pining for you, do you?

- That often explains it.

- Come on. Let's go.

- I really feel very guilty about this.

- Don't let it worry you.

It's a good thing we're not playing for

money, or I'd have you in bankruptcy.

- This last hand alone...

- Weren't we playing for money?

Of course not.

I never play for money.

We always play for money. Otherwise,

it's like swimming in an empty pool.

- Lf you count that last redouble, it's...

- Nonsense, my boy.

- At ten cents a point?

- At ten cents a point?

Purely nominal.

Now, let me see. Five, ten...

- You'll ruin us.

- Four ninety-eight. Roughly $500.

- Oh, wait a minute.

- Father's in the oil business.

It just keeps bubbling up

out of the ground.

- I thought with the title of colonel...

- Purely honorary.

- How much do I owe the sucker?

- Now, let me see. Two, four, six...

Who's that funny-looking

gink watching us?

- Everything on the up-and-up?

- Everything's okay. Go to bed.

I'm way ahead.

- All right.

- Who's that, your nurse?

That's Muggsy.

My father took him off a truck

when I was a kid to look out for me.

Kidnappers, stuff like that.

He's been sort of a bodyguard, governess

and a very bad valet ever since.

He saved my life once in a brawl.

- Roughly $100.

- That's rough enough.

- Since I had no understanding that...

- Don't worry. I'll get it back.

- Well, if that's a promise.

- You can depend upon it.

- I'll certainly feel better.

- You certainly will.

I think I'll toddle off...

and leave you young people to talk

about whatever young people talk about.

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Monckton Hoffe

Monckton Hoffe (1880-1951) was an Irish playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Connemara on 26 December 1880. more…

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