The script for the film baby doll (1956)

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archie: Well, you gonna wait a long time if that's what you're waiting for! baby doll: I vow my father would turn over in his grave. • . • archie: I never once did see your father get out and open a car door for your mother or any other woman. . . . Now get on in. . . . She wheels about and her wedgies clac\<lac\ down the drive. At foot of drive she assumes a hitchhiker's stance. A hot-rod s\ids to a sudden and noisy stop. Archie Lee bounds from his car li\e a )ac\ rabbit, snatching a fistful of gravel as he plummets down drive. Hurls gravel at grinning teen-age /(ids in hot-rod, shouting incoherently as they shoot off, plunging Baby Doll and her protector in a dust-cloud. Through the dust . • . archie lee: Got your license number you pack a DISSOLVE. 16A] THE CAR INTERIOR. They are jolting down the road. archie: Baby Doll, y'know they's no torture on earth to equal the torture which a cold woman inflicts on a man that she won't let touch her??!! No torture to compare with it! What I've done is!! Staked out a lot in hell, a lot with a rotten house on it and five complete sets of furniture not paid for. . . . baby doll: What you done is bit off more'n you can chew. Page 16