Jimmy Chan Quotes in Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)

Jimmy Chan: Pop, is he dead?

Charlie Chan: No heart strong enough to hold bullet.

Jimmy Chan: [after being kicked by his father while playing dice] How'd you know it was me?

Charlie Chan: Frequent spankings have made offspring's anatomy most familiar.

Jimmy Chan: Watch out, Pop, he's oily and slippery.

Charlie Chan: Slippery man sometimes slip in own oil.

Jimmy Chan: Hey, Pop, you're not gonna swallow that story, are you?

Charlie Chan: Swallow much, but digest little,

Jimmy Chan: You can scare a person to death, but if you do it deliberately, that's murder.

Jimmy Chan: Pop! Am I glad to see you!

Sheriff Tombstone Fletcher: You mean he's really your son?

Charlie Chan: Must admit to dubious honor.

Jimmy Chan: Pop, tell these guys I'm not crazy!

Charlie Chan: Parent must first convince self of same.

Charlie Chan: How long ago lady escape?

Jimmy Chan: I don't know just how long, Pop, 'cause I was almost unconscious.

Charlie Chan: Have suspected same since birth.

Jimmy Chan: Say, Pop, what d'ya think about this?

Charlie Chan: Like dog chasing his own tail - getting no place.

Jimmy Chan: Come on, Pop. Let's get goin'!

Charlie Chan: Number Two get going to bed.

Jimmy Chan: Oh, but I'm not tired.

Charlie Chan: Fresh weed better than wilted rose.

Jimmy Chan: I'll never go on a case like this again without a gat.

Insp. Vance: Looks like the kid's right again, Charlie.

Jimmy Chan: [Excitedly] See, it's the easiest nut I ever cracked!

Charlie Chan: Easy nut to crack often empty.

Jimmy Chan: Say, Pop, you haven't been drinking, have you?

Charlie Chan: Only wine of discovery.

Lily, Mme. Saturnia: There's death out in that desert.

Jimmy Chan: Huh? What do you mean? I mean how do you know?

Lily, Mme. Saturnia: The stars! They see everything!

Jimmy Chan: In the daytime?

Lily, Mme. Saturnia: [With disdain] No, at night!

Watson King: [after Jimmy falls down the dungeon stars in a suit of armor] You still alive?

Jimmy Chan: I guess so.

Watson King: [Sarcastically] Just bent, bruised, and bewildered, ay?

Jimmy Chan: Did you find out anything, Pop?

Charlie Chan: Not enough to fill up ear of gnat.

Birmingham Brown: [Referring to Charlie] Hey, Jimmy, what does he mean about Bureau of Missing Persons?

Jimmy Chan: Well, that's where you find things that are missing.

Birmingham Brown: I'm missing my breakfast. Let's find that.

Jimmy Chan: Com'on, Birmingham. Shake a leg.

Birmingham Brown: Who do you think I am? Man O' War? I ain't run this fast since I ran into a hornet's nest!

Jimmy Chan: [Watching a frightened Birmingham repeatedly crash into the wall on the stair landing of the morgue] Where are you going, Birmingham? That's not a door up there!

Birmingham Brown: It will be in a minute.

Jimmy Chan: Say, I got the doctor's fingerprints from the doorknob, but I couldn't find anything on the murder weapon.

Charlie Chan: Many persons have handled that knife since killer.

Jimmy Chan: But, Pop, all modern detectives take fingerprints.

Charlie Chan: No. Only old-fashioned criminals leave such evidence behind.

Chattanooga Brown: I'm tellin' yuh, he's as guilty as a weasel in a hen house.

Jimmy Chan: Well, Pop'll grab him if he is.

Chattanooga Brown: Well, he's gotta bankroll that'd choke a water buffalo.

Jimmy Chan: [Chuckles] Why not a mule?

Chattanooga Brown: Ain't no mules where he come from. He come from, uh... He one of them shoemaker men.

Jimmy Chan: A what?

Chattanooga Brown: Shoemaker on... on the islands, you know!

Jimmy Chan: Oh, you mean Jamaica.