Frank Sinatra
(as Capt. Tom Reynolds)
Cpl. Bill Ringa:
Excuse me for saying so, sir... but you look terrible.
Capt. Tom Reynolds: Inside of my mouth tastes like the outside of a crocodile.
Capt. Tom Reynolds: Inside of my mouth tastes like the outside of a crocodile.
Frank Sinatra
(as Capt. Tom Reynolds)
Cpl. Bill Ringa:
You got more weapons here than a bank dick.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer: Yeah, we put no trust in slingshots.
Capt. Danny De Mortimer: Yeah, we put no trust in slingshots.
Robert Bray
(as Col. Fred Parkson)
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: 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.
Frank Sinatra
(as Capt. Tom Reynolds)
Head Nurse:
[Sternly] You get back into bed. That's an order. Get back into bed.
Capt. Tom Reynolds: One day, I'm gonna' meet a nurse who doesn't sound like a troop commander.
Head Nurse: Captain, I'm going to report you to the colonel.
Capt. Tom Reynolds: Tattletale.
Capt. Tom Reynolds: One day, I'm gonna' meet a nurse who doesn't sound like a troop commander.
Head Nurse: Captain, I'm going to report you to the colonel.
Capt. Tom Reynolds: Tattletale.
Frank Sinatra
(as Capt. Tom Reynolds)
Capt. Alofson - Psychiatrist:
Reynolds, I've got to examine you.
Capt. Tom Reynolds: Okay. Mind if I smoke?
Capt. Alofson - Psychiatrist: Supposing I said I wished you wouldn't?
Capt. Tom Reynolds: If you gave me a good reason, I probably wouldn't. But seeing as how you don't outrank me, I think I will.
Capt. Alofson - Psychiatrist: [Grudgingly impressed] That's a specific, logical answer.
Capt. Tom Reynolds: Thank you, doc.
Capt. Tom Reynolds: Okay. Mind if I smoke?
Capt. Alofson - Psychiatrist: Supposing I said I wished you wouldn't?
Capt. Tom Reynolds: If you gave me a good reason, I probably wouldn't. But seeing as how you don't outrank me, I think I will.
Capt. Alofson - Psychiatrist: [Grudgingly impressed] That's a specific, logical answer.
Capt. Tom Reynolds: Thank you, doc.
Frank Sinatra
(as Capt. Tom Reynolds)
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.
Frank Sinatra
(as Capt. Tom Reynolds)
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.
Capt. Tom Reynolds: [tending him] Shut up.
Frank Sinatra
(as Capt. Tom Reynolds)
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?
Capt. Tom Reynolds: Nothing in this war makes sense. Why do you expect it to make sense now?
Frank Sinatra
(as Capt. Tom Reynolds)
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.
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.
Frank Sinatra
(as Capt. Tom Reynolds)
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?
Capt. Danny De Mortimer: What's the sense of practicing what you can only do wrong once, doc?
