| Movie |
Action in the North Atlantic |
| Year |
1943 |
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Johnnie Pulaski:
If a torpedo ever connected with this ship, we'd go up like a match connected to cellophane. You ain't got a chance!
Boats O'Hara:
[Repeating] You ain't got a chance.
Johnnie Pulaski:
And "Boom!" You're in the hero department!
Boats O'Hara:
Yeah.
Johnnie Pulaski:
Just like that and the next thing you know, you're pickin' a milky way outta your ears.
Whitey Lara:
Okay, okay, so what?
Johnnie Pulaski:
Whatta ya mean, "Okay?"
Chips Abrams:
Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I think you got the wromg angle. The way I see it if your ship's number is up, you're gonna get it.
Whitey Lara:
Yeah, and suppose my number ain't up?
Chips Abrams:
Then, brother, the torpedoes can connect right where yer sittin' and still nuthin' will happen.
Boats O'Hara:
Well, I want no torpedoes where I'm sittin'. I'm a sensitive man, I am.
Johnnie Pulaski:
[to Chips] Whatta you know about it? You carpenters got sawdust for brains!
Chips Abrams:
Listen, I was shippin' out when your buttons was safety pins. I was in a tanker in the last war. I got torpedoed so much, I got water on the knee.
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Capt. Steve Jarvis:
[to a departing German U-boat after it has rammed his survivor lifeboat] Go on, laugh, you apes! You've had your blood and fire to make you laugh, but I swear to God our time is comin'! We'll pay ya back! We'll hunt ya down and slice ya like a piece of cheese!
Lt. Joe Rossi:
Oh, they can't hear you.
Capt. Steve Jarvis:
No, but God can.
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Chips Abrams:
I got faith in God, President Roosevelt, and the Brooklyn Dodgers in the order of their importance.
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Mrs. Jarvis:
For a sailor's wife war is just another storm.
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Chips Abrams:
So you want a safe job, hunh? Go ask the Czechs and the Poles and the Greeks. They were figuring on safe jobs. They're lined up in front of guns digging each other's graves. The trouble with you, Pulaski, is you think America is just a place to eat and sleep. You don't know what side your future's buttered on.
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Lieutenant-Commander:
[Seeing the battered Liberty Ship pulling into the harbor in Mermansk] It's a miracle!
Rear Admiral Williams:
That isn't a miracle; it's American seamanship.
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