Never So Few (1959)
Richard Johnson: Capt. Danny De Mortimer
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Quotes
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Capt. Danny De Mortimer : [down with cerebral malaria] I feel like an old serial. When does the train run over me?
Capt. Tom Reynolds : [tending him] Shut up.
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Capt. Danny De Mortimer : [DeMortimer and the others have arrived in time for a Christmas banquet put together by the Kachins. Unfamiliar foods abound] A little breast of peacock, water buffalo... and the tiniest dollop of monkey brains. I'm a hairy brute with an empty stomach.
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Capt. Grey Travis : Grenade? That's a funny way to kill fish.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : Or people.
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Capt. Danny De Mortimer : Whiskey! I just liberated it.
Capt. Tom Reynolds : How do you know it's not poisoned?
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : I don't, that's why I decided to share it with you.
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Capt. Tom Reynolds : Danny, do you know anything about this guy, Regas?
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : Well... He's supposed to be in shipping, but I think he's an opium smuggler in wolf's clothing.
Capt. Tom Reynolds : What about Carla Vesari? She's quite a crock of curry.
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Capt. Tom Reynolds : [while checking in at the hotel, receiving an unexpected invite from Nikko Regas] Well, we're invited to a party tonight. By Mr. Nikko Regas.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : [Suspicious about how Regas knew they were there] And how did he know? There's something spooky about that man.
Capt. Tom Reynolds : How can you say that? He's the squarest shooter on the road to Mandalay.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : I wish I had a copy of 'Who 's Who in India.' Or 'The Bombay Police Blotter.' I'd like to look up friend Regas.
Capt. Tom Reynolds : Anybody who invites *us* to a party can't be all that bad. And let's not bite the hand that buys the booze.
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Nikko Regas : [Greeting Tom and Danny at his cottage in Chandigarh] Welcome, allies.
Capt. Tom Reynolds : Mr. Regas.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : We didn't realize you were tossing a gala.
Nikko Regas : Oh, nonsense. This sort of thing goes on every night. But I want you to consider this your home in Chandigarh. Your 'foxhole away from your foxhole,' so to speak.
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Capt. Tom Reynolds : [Upon seeing a Sadhu - a Hindu ascetic holy man - while they are visiting a shrine] Danny lived like that once.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : For a while, but I couldn't stand it. So I came back to the world of men and their commodities. I couldn't stand that, either.
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Capt. Grey Travis : [Expressing trepidation at parachuting for the first time] Maybe I should've practiced.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : What's the sense of practicing what you can only do wrong once, doc?
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Capt. Danny De Mortimer : Tom, you're a man of gruesome courage... but moving on Ubachi without support is as sensible as a hotfoot in hell.
Capt. Tom Reynolds : Nothing in this war makes sense. Why do you expect it to make sense now?
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Capt. Tom Reynolds : Get out.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : Tom. Tom, you can't do it.
Capt. Tom Reynolds : Would you rather he suffer for another 12 or 15 hours? You'd shoot a lousy horse with a broken leg to end his misery. Now, get out.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : A human being is not an animal.
Capt. Tom Reynolds : Don't give me any sermons. You're not the chaplain.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : You can't murder a man without killing part of yourself.
Capt. Tom Reynolds : I've been killing men all night long. Now, get out!
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Capt. Tom Reynolds : Clever, these Japanese.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : Ah, brilliant.
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Capt. Danny De Mortimer : When do you expect the Nips?
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Capt. Danny De Mortimer : This is a grand way to live.
Capt. Tom Reynolds : It's even a better way to die.
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Capt. Danny De Mortimer : Well, when do we eat?
Capt. Tom Reynolds : Take it easy, Pappy. This isn't hurrying-up time. This is slowing-down time. Let's drink easy and long and consistently.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : Right-o. We'll drink ourselves into a *tortured* hunger.
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Capt. Danny De Mortimer : What pumpkin did you pop out of?
Margaret Fitch : The Empress Hotel.
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Capt. Tom Reynolds : Margaret, don't ask him how he keeps it in.
Sgt. Jim Norby : How do you keep it in?
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : Well, the problem is getting it out.
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Sgt. Jim Norby : We'll find you a girl, Danny. As a matter of fact, if it weren't for Tom and this and that, you'd have me completely enslaved. I think it's the monocle. I think it's very chic.
Capt. Tom Reynolds : Oh, it's smashing.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : Well, I have an injured eye, through which I take a rather jaundiced view of the world.
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Capt. Tom Reynolds : You ever seen any combat?
Cpl. Bill Ringa : Oh, here and there, sir. A little bit.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : Well, where and where, a little bit?
Cpl. Bill Ringa : New York City, mostly. I've seen action in Williamsburg, Hell's Kitchen, Yorkville, Weehawken. Well, of course, that's in New Jersey. You know, the funny part about it is, since I've joined the Army and the war started, I've led a comparatively sheltered life.
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Capt. Danny De Mortimer : Forty thousand Nips are rolling down from Ubachi Air Field. Forty thousand.
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Capt. Tom Reynolds : Hey, you all right, chum?
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : I feel a bit clammy. Too much nightlife and lazy living.
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Capt. Tom Reynolds : What am I gonna do, Danny?
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : You're the boss. It's your decision.
Capt. Tom Reynolds : How tangled can a knot get?
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Capt. Tom Reynolds : What's the sense of fighting a war if you can't yell for what's right?
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : How can you be so damn sure you *know* what's right?
Capt. Tom Reynolds : I'm not sure. But I'm sure I'm gonna do something, even if it's wrong.
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Capt. Danny De Mortimer : I found these men in the village up ahead. They say these guys weren't killed by the Nips, they were killed by the Chinese.
Capt. Tom Reynolds : What kind of Chinese?
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Cpl. Bill Ringa : You got more weapons here than a bank dick.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer : Yeah, we put no trust in slingshots.