Mr. Lucky (1943)

Joe Adams aka Joe Bascopolous: [to Crunk] Never give a sucker an even break and always keep an eye on your pals.

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Hard Swede: [as Joe enters the car] Where did you get hat butt?
Joe Adams aka Joe Bascopolous: [Smoking with an abdominal bullet wound] Well, i promoted it off a guy.
Hard Swede: One cough out of you, and you'll fill this seat with oatmeal.

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Joe Adams aka Joe Bascopolous: [to Dorothy] You bring me the right people; I'll get you that hundred thousand.

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RKO's second biggest hit of 1943, netting $1.603 million, it was only outperformed at the box office by the vastly lower-budgeted Hitler's Children.
Writer Milton Holmes said that his story was inspired by a real 1936 event, where a nightclub owner staged a one-night gambling benefit at the Beverly Hills Hotel to raise $40,000 for a church. In his original story, the character of Joe dies at the end.
The rhyming slang used by Cary Grant's character is a form of slang in which a word is replaced by a rhyming word, typically the second word of a two-word phrase (so stairs becomes "apples and pears"). The second word is then often dropped entirely ("I'm going up the apples"), meaning that the association of the original word to the rhyming phrase is not obvious to the uninitiated. For example: "Sherman" for an American (Sherman tank = Yank). The exact origin of rhyming slang appears to be unclear, partly because it exists to some extent in many languages. In English, rhyming slang is strongly associated with Cockney speech from the East End of London.
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