Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

Alan Hale: Boats O'Hara

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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.

• Boats O'Hara : I'm thinking plenty. And I ought to make you smell knuckles for the duration.

  Chips Abrams : No, no, no. You got your brains in your fists.

  Boats O'Hara : But that's what he needs.

• Boats O'Hara : Them liberty ships is sure well-named.

• Boats O'Hara : [about the crew of the surfaced U-Boat]  Why they're taking pictures of us.

• Boats O'Hara : A hundred? That's only a spit in the ocean. It will take thousands, they're building them ships so fast.