"You dirty rat!"
What James Cagney actually said was: "Mmm, that dirty, double-crossin' rat," in the 1931 film, Blonde Crazy. As another example of how misquotes can take on a life of their own, in the 1990 comedy, Home Alone, Macauley Culkin watches a scene from a fictional gangster movie entitled, "Angels With Filthy Souls" (a take-off on the 1938 Cagney film Angels With Dirty Faces), in which a gangster shoots while saying, "Take that, you dirty rat!
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