Joan Bennett credited as playing...
Ella Sue Dozier
- Ella Sue Dozier: Then you're not discouraged, Colonel?
- Col. Will Seaborn Effingham: Discouragement has no more place in a soldier's equipment than an inner-spring mattress.
- Albert 'Al' Marbury: What's the matter with you today anyhow?
- Ella Sue Dozier: I have a slight case of moral indigestion.
- Albert 'Al' Marbury: I have nothing against the old courthouse. As a matter of fact I have a personal attachment for it. I just think Cousin Willie is stirring up a lot of unnecessary trouble.
- Ella Sue Dozier: He's stirring up a lot of trouble alright.
- Albert 'Al' Marbury: Sort of feel sorry for the old guy. He's like a rabbit, bouncing out of his nice briar patch and leaping lickerty-split across the field under the muzzles of 12-gauge shotguns.
- Ella Sue Dozier: Isn't it more like a rabbit to sit cowering in his nest?
- Albert 'Al' Marbury: Of course, I'd seen your legs before but they'd never impressed me as something unusual.
- Ella Sue Dozier: Just run of the mill?
- Ella Sue Dozier: Have you a statement for the press?
- Albert 'Al' Marbury: [Mimicking the blowhard mayor] Only that I wish to convey to our esteemed city leaders my heartfelt appreciation for this delicious barbecued pig... without which democracy as it is known in Georgia...
- [trails off]
- Albert 'Al' Marbury: You know, I think you should hang a service star on the door of the society department.
- Ella Sue Dozier: Why?
- Albert 'Al' Marbury: You got me into this.
- Ella Sue Dozier: Me?
- Albert 'Al' Marbury: Thought you'd like the uniform.
- Ella Sue Dozier: Oh, Albert, this is so sudden.
- Ella Sue Dozier: I didn't even suspect you knew I had legs.
- Albert 'Al' Marbury: Just beginning to bother me, that's all.
- Ella Sue Dozier: You mean there's something profane in your feelings towards me?
- Albert 'Al' Marbury: Definitely.
