" He was contemptuous of her love for humans: "You feel so much for these humans, yet you feel nothing for me.He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.He leaned against the bar at the Old Home Sample Room, the most gilded and urbane saloon in Cato, Missouri, and requested the bartender to join him in ""The Good Old Summer Time,"" the waltz of the day.He was given considerable creative control over this film""s script, direction and editing by Universal Pictures, unlike what would happen to him a year later.I set ""em up and you drink ""em down....(A cut-away to a befuddled Dimsdale)...This is getting monotonous.Dimsdale takes a swig of the free whiskey from a bottle, but then spits it out.Taking his new position seriously, Dimsdale reforms himself and smashes the bottle to the floor: "Then I""m off the liquor.