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Operator 13 (1934)

Sidney Toler: Maj. Allen Pinkerton

Operator 13

Sidney Toler credited as playing...

Maj. Allen Pinkerton

Quotes9

  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Operators 27 and 13 are not men.
  • 'Doctor' Hitchcock: What are they, mules?
  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Miss Cushman is one of our best Operators.
  • Gail Loveless: Operators?
  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Well, call them what the Court Martial calls them if they're unlucky enough to be caught: Spies.
  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Where's Miss Loveless?
  • Gail Loveless: [disguised in blackface] Miss Loveless? She dun have an accident.
  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Accident?
  • Gail Loveless: Yes, sah. She turned colored. Just like me.
  • [no longer speaking with a blackface accent]
  • Gail Loveless: How do you do Major?
  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Well, I'll be.
  • Gail Loveless: Do you think I could? Do you think I'm - man enough?
  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: I'll take a chance.
  • Gail Loveless: Do you think I'll do, Major?
  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Decidedly!
  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Now listen, I'm sending you through General J.E.B. Stuart's lines at Martinsburg. Stuart is the firebrand of the South. No one ever knows just where he'll strike next. So, it's up to you to find out. How? Is your business. Is that clear?
  • Pauline: Very clear, Major.
  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Operator 13, Operator 27 will tell you that the chief duty of the Spy - is not to get caught.
  • Gail Loveless: Yes. It rather puts an end to your usefulness, doesn't it.
  • Gail Loveless: [in blackface] Would you go so far as to tell us where we could get a bath?
  • Pauline: Please! And lots of soap.
  • 'Doctor' Hitchcock: You see, that's all they've been talkin' about the last two hours - a bath. Cannon's roarin', brave men dyin', J.E.B. Stuart licked, and all they talk about is a bath. Well, ladies, you know yourself better than I do.
  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: They look as though they needed a bath. Ladies, you shall have it! The best bath that we can provide.
  • Gail Loveless, Pauline: Thank you, Major.
  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: What's he like, this Captain Gailliard, Miss Loveless?
  • Gail Loveless: Keenly intelligent, rather attractive, and very good looking.
  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: You're not taking a maid?
  • Pauline: Why, yes. Why not?
  • Major Allen aka Allen Pinkerton: Oh, negros are always gossiping. I can't allow it.

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