Never So Few (1959)

Robert Bray: Col. Fred Parkson

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• Capt. Tom Reynolds : [Meeting with his commanding officer at Army headquarters, Calcutta]  I want a doctor, Fred, and I want one right away. Or you won't have a single Kachin left.

  Col. Fred Parkson : Did you fly down here just to bicker about doctors?

  Capt. Tom Reynolds : Among other things. But most important, the doctor. We've only been here a few hours, but I've seen 10, 15 doctors. Where they coming from? Where they going?

  Col. Fred Parkson : I'll listen to anything you gotta' say. But just who do you think you are? You and your jungle wallahs coming here, flexing your muscles. You're not the only guys fighting a backwash war.

  Capt. Tom Reynolds : We're the only ones without a doctor.

  Col. Fred Parkson : Find yourself an unassigned doctor, and I'll tag him for your outfit.

• Col. Fred Parkson : Want you and Danny to take a holiday. Pick any rest area in the Himalayas. Take two weeks.

  Capt. Tom Reynolds : Holiday? No. Out of the question. I couldn't stay out of the hills for two weeks.

  Col. Fred Parkson : Kachins got by for hundreds of years before you... and they'll get by long after I spit on your grave.

• Capt. Tom Reynolds : [Being called in front of his superiors on account of the incursion into China to retaliate for the Chinese warlord's attack on the American supply detachment]  I've just seen 34 American GI's with their heads blown off by Chinese troops.

  Capt. Tom Reynolds : [Grabs his duffel bag and theatrically dumps its contents on the table: dog tags, wallets and other personal effects of the slain American soldiers]  And I wanna' know why.

  Gen. Sloan : [Reacting to the pile of dog tags etc. on the table in front of him]  This is sickening.

  Col. Fred Parkson : Doesn't it strike you that your actions were, to say the least, unprecedented?

  Capt. Tom Reynolds : Doesn't it strike you that we're fighting a rather unprecedented kind of war? Isn't that right, general?

  Gen. Sloan : Well, it has its bad moments. But in the long run...

  Capt. Tom Reynolds : I don't give a damn about the long run if it adds up to this! You can't deny what's been going on or what'll continue to go on unless something's done about it! I know I'm right about this. And if you don't know it, I pity you.