Two employees from a department store who were spending a day with friends at the beach find themselves falsely accused of some minor, pettifogging violations of the law, and one of their smooth-talking pals talks them out of the police station with a rousing speech:



Starting about the 7:45 mark- "Let a man say you were spitting on the sidewalk when you weren't and the next thing you know he'll be tearing up the Constitution. I don't care how small the right is you're trying to take away from me, I'll fight for it..."

And then he starts reciting the Constitution. "That always means trouble," says the police chief, right before he lets him go.

It's a funny little movie- 1941, starring Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, and others. It's a pro-union, anti big business man film with a somewhat predictable twist and some smiles and screwball silliness along the way.