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If ever a man seems lost in time, it would be Johnny Twennies, a newspaper writer who talks, walks and fights like he stepped out of the Jazz Age. When a pack of thugs threaten his life unless he plants a fake news story, Johnny proves he's got plenty of moxie -- and that some ideas, like chivalry and justice, never go out of style.
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00:00One man.
00:01I'm a newspaper man.
00:02I got a story that's a panic.
00:04Whose virtue and character recall the values of a happier time.
00:08He's Johnny Twenties and boy, does he have moxie.
00:12You keep riding me like this, you're gonna have to pay the fare.
00:14You have to be kidding.
00:16Man of the Century.
00:18Mind your business, Dick Tracy.
00:20Oh, a wise guy.
00:23I had to send you right out on your ear.
00:27He's a ladies' man.
00:29Oh, Johnny.
00:30I want you.
00:32Oh, well, that's funny.
00:33Uncle Sam wants me.
00:34Everybody wants something.
00:36He's a party man.
00:41And he's the man with the plan.
00:43What are you doing?
00:45I'm incognito.
00:46Hey, Johnny.
00:46Rats.
00:47You write the story, he lets you live.
00:49There's a deadline.
00:51Do you just spend all day watching old movies on cable?
00:54He gets the photos if he lets the girl go.
00:56Haven't you low-lids ever heard of chivalry?
00:59Do you even get cable?
01:01Sure, I get cables all the time.
01:03What a day.
01:04Happy feet.
01:05I've got those happy feet.
01:07Give them a load of feet.
01:09And they begin to dance.
01:11Are you gay?
01:13Of course I'm gay.
01:14I'm gay as a day in May.
01:16Fine Line Features presents...
01:17Listen, Poopsie, right now I'm swimming in a burrow full of trouble and I'm not about to see you get
01:21dumped.
01:21You expect me to believe that?
01:23A comedy for the ages.
01:24I'll have the chopped beef and onion with coffee.
01:26I'll have a mixed green salad, a dressing on the side.
01:29Well, they ought to have some meat with your food.
01:31Man of the century.
01:33Really, Mother, it's the 20th century.
01:35Happy feet.
01:36I've got those happy feet.
01:38Give them a load of feet.
01:40And they begin dancing.
01:44I've got those...
01:45Ten little...
01:46...
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