Manpower (1941)

Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: [Last Lines] Did anyone yell headache when I was coming down?
Johnny Marshall: Sure.
Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: I'm glad nobody got hurt.
[Hank dies]

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Dolly: You know, Smiley, there's one grand consolation about working in this dump. You can't get any lower.

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Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Johnny, what are you doing for supper tonight?
Johnny Marshall: Oh, nothing exciting.
Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: Well, come on home with me.
Johnny Marshall: Nah, it's getting to be a habit.
Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: What's the matter? Don't you like the food?
Johnny Marshall: Oh sure, I like it. But if I show up at your house this week for another meal, Fay'll wind up calling the cops. And after all, you're practically still on your honeymoon.
Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry: I'm only asking you for supper.

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While visiting his friend George Raft on the set, Bugsy Siegel was introduced to Virginia Hill. In the scene where Raft gets into a brawl with Barton MacLane, Hill appears as the hat-check girl to whom Raft gives a smashed chair as he leaves the nightclub. The brawl scene and Bugsy Siegel's first meeting with Virginia Hill on the gas station movie set are recreated in Bugsy.
Humphrey Bogart was originally cast in this film, but George Raft refused to work with him.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onMarch 16, 1942 with Marlene Dietrich, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft reprising their film roles.
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