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.
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
Capt. Tom Reynolds: [tending him] Shut up.
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
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?
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
Capt. Tom Reynolds: Nothing in this war makes sense. Why do you expect it to make sense now?
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
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.
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
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) in Never So Few
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?
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
Capt. Danny De Mortimer: What's the sense of practicing what you can only do wrong once, doc?
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
Capt. Tom Reynolds:
[admiring the Himalayan landscape] Just like Indianapolis, only this goes up and down.
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
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.
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
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.
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
Capt. Tom Reynolds:
[explaining a kiss from a nurse] Just a good old American salutation. You'd be surprised at some of the customs of my people.
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
Capt. Tom Reynolds:
[Having entered Carla's bathroom, in which she is bathing in a large bathtub] Is that why you invited me in your bath?
Carla Vesari: Don't be so provincial. In Japan, men and women bathe together.
Capt. Tom Reynolds: This is not Japan, and you well know it.
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
Carla Vesari: Don't be so provincial. In Japan, men and women bathe together.
Capt. Tom Reynolds: This is not Japan, and you well know it.
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
Capt. Tom Reynolds:
[Parting words to Carla before heading back to the Kachins] You've taken up with a no-good G.I... who's gonna' keep you barefoot and pregnant and on the edge of town. We're gonna' be married. I'll be back. Learn to cook.
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
Capt. Tom Reynolds:
[Referring to the American supply detachment that is supposed to truck weapons from the Chinese border to Reynolds and his men in support of their impending raid on Ubachi airfield] That's a lousy detail. I'd rather shinny up a thorn tree with an armful of eels.
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
--Frank Sinatra (as Capt. Tom Reynolds) in Never So Few
