The Ghost Walks (1934)

Richard Carle: Herman Wood

Quotes 

• Herman Wood : Was tha - was that the clock?

  Homer Erskine : Ye - yes, I - I - I guess so. I - I - I think so. It must have been. But it's a union clock.

  Herman Wood : What do you mean?

  Homer Erskine : Well, it strikes any old time.

• [When Wood starts cough while smoking a cigar, Erskine slaps him repeatedly on his back] 

  Herman Wood : What's the idea?

  Homer Erskine : Why you're choking terribly.

  Herman Wood : Well, can you do any better?

• [Wood is startled by a woman's loud and sustained shriek] 

  Herman Wood : Erskine, did you hear that scream?

  Homer Erskine : Yes. It sounded like a grand opera star with acute indigestion.

  Herman Wood : Worse than that! It sounded inhuman.

  Homer Erskine : Oh, pure imagination. If I allowed a noise like that to scare me, your voice would have killed me long ago.

• [last lines] 

  Herman Wood : Now, what's the matter with you?

  Homer Erskine : I was just thinking how terrible it would have been had the professor really operated on us and changed us all. You would have gotten my adenoids and I'd have gotten your false teeth.

  Herman Wood : Erskine, turn your face to the setting sun.

  [Erskine turns and Wood kicks him in the butt] 

  Homer Erskine : Hey! What's the idea?

  Herman Wood : Don't forget - you're fired.

  Homer Erskine : Oh, Mr. Wood...

  Herman Wood : Come!

• [first lines] 

  [Wood and Erskine are driving along a country road on a dark and stormy night] 

  Herman Wood : Erskine, you're fired!

  Homer Erskine : Why, Mr. Wood, what is wrong?

  Herman Wood : You! It was your idea we should come up to this forsaken hole for the weekend. If I die of pneumonia, it will be your debt to society.

  Homer Erskine : Mr. Wood, I try to be a competent secretary, but I have absolutely no control over the elements. How did I know it was going to rain? See? The paper says fair and warmer!

  Herman Wood : That's last week's paper. You're still fired.

• Gloria Shaw : Oh, Mr. Wood, I have heard so much about you.

  Herman Wood : I was afraid of that.