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1941 (1979) More at IMDbPro »

Japanese soldier: [trying to squeeze a large radio into the sub] We've got to figure out how to make these things smaller!

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Captain Loomis Birkhead: [to Donna] It's big. The biggest one here. You know what else? It's got a lot of range. You know what I mean by range, don't you? I mean it can stay up for a long time. A very long time. And it's built firm and solid. Because it has to be. Because of its tremendous forward thrust. And when this baby delivers its payload... devastating.

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General Joseph W. Stilwell: This isn't the state of California, it's a state of insanity.

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Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Let me hear your guns!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!

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Hollis P. Wood: You sneaky little batards aren't getting doodly shit from me, except maybe my name, rank, and Social Security number: Wood, Hollis P., Lumberjack, Social Security 106-43-2185.

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Hollis P. Wood: [after seeing Captain von Kleinschmidt enter] Jesus Palomino, a Nazi. I knew it, you're all in cahoots. Well let me tell you something, Mr. Heinie Kraut, I fought your kind in the great war, and we kicked the living shit out of you!

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[to Betty, before she leaves for the USO]
Ward Douglas: I don't know what they've told you down at the USO, but you're going to be meeting a lot of strange men. Men in uniform. Boys a long way from home, lonely, desperate. They really have one thing on their minds. Show 'em a good time.

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Sergeant Frank Tree: If there's one thing I can't stand seeing, it's Americans fighting Americans.

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Colonel "Madman" Maddox: To Hollywood... and glory!

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Captain Wild Bill Kelso: Kid, you gotta get that sub.
Wally Stephens: What sub?
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: The Jap sub.
Wally Stephens: Where?
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: The ocean, lame-o.

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[Looking at the Japanese sub through binoculars]
Angelo Scioli: Hey, there's a Kraut on board too. We got the whole damn Axis here.

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Private Foley: Now Sarge, what is the loading and firing procedure for the 75-millimeter cannon?
Sergeant Frank Tree: [delirious] There are five basic components...
Private Foley: This is it, pay attention.
Sergeant Frank Tree: ...to the new General Electric refrigerator: one, the freon compressor, two, the freon tube...

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[last lines]
Sergeant Frank Tree: You know, this year wasn't the big year of the war, '41. I think the really big year is going to be 1942.
Major General Joseph W. Stillwell: [sighs] It's gonna be a long war.

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Captain Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt: [in German; subtitled] The Fuehrer was right! There is no place in the Third Reich for you yellow swine!
Colonel Akiro Mitamura: [in Japanese; subtitled] You can take your "Third Reich" and shove it up your ass!

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[reporting over the radio on a riot at the USO]
Raoul Lipschitz: Ladies and gentlemen, every where I look... soldiers are fighting sailors, sailors are fighting Marines! Directly in front of me, I see a flying blond floozy! Everywhere I look... everywhere, pure pandemonium... pandemonium!

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Wally Stephens: I've learned a very important lesson today; I'll never shop east of Beverly Hills.

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Captain Wild Bill Kelso: War nerves? Who said war nerves?
The Patron: I heard it on that radio there.
[Kelso shoots the radio]
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: Radio's wrong.

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Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Hold your fire, pass it on.

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Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Identify yourself!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: Captain Wild Bill Kelso, United States Army Air Corps. Where the hell am I?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Barstow. Where are you coming from?
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: San Francisco... been chasing a Jap squadron for a day and a half. I lost 'em somewhere over Fresno.
Telephone Operator: I'm from Moline, Illinois.
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: Tough Shit.

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Raoul Lipschitz: I'd like to thank all the GI's for making this such a memorable evening. Maybe next time we can get some Negroes in here and start a race riot.

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Major General Joseph W. Stillwell: Bombs! I don't hear any bombs! Now they're up there. They came all the way from Asia. Don't you think they'd bring a few bombs along?

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Murray Hamilton: Turn off those lights, you little asshole!

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Gen. Stillwell: That is the craziest son of a bitch I've ever seen.

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Hollis P. Wood: How can a man take a bowel movement with a hundred buffalo rifles a-pointin' at him?

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General Joseph W. Stilwell: You know son, Col. Maddox is mad.
Cpl. Mizerany: He is?

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Hollis P. Wood: You won't get shit out of me. I've been constipated all week!

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Donna Stratton: You get me up in that plane, then we'll talk about forward thrust.

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Captain Loomis Birkhead: [after the failed B-17 tryst] Oh, Donna you can't do this to me, you don't know what I've been through today!
Donna Stratton: [hair slightly astray under her hat, looking very annoyed] Loomis, my father was a drill sergeant in the Marine Corps.
[balls up her fist]
Donna Stratton: And he taught me how to defend myself. Now *leave* me *alone*.
Captain Loomis Birkhead: Donna, please -
[she hits him in the face, and he falls back onto the controls, releasing a bomb onto the ground]

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Captain Wild Bill Kelso: Come back, plane!
[chases after his plane, shooting his gun off in the air]

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Pvt. Ogden Johnson Jones: [laughing at Foley, who is covered in black powder] Hey, hey, hey, get to the back of the tank!
[laughs maniacally]

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Captain Loomis Birkhead: Sir, you don't have any *bombers* here, do you, sir?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Bombers? Son, if I had bombers I'd be bombin' the *hell* out of them right now!
[Maddox and his men start laughing madly]
Donna Stratton: [looking around; whispers to herself] No planes?
Captain Loomis Birkhead: [to himself] Boy am I in trouble now...
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: [signals for the laughing to stop] Hell, son, the only plane I've got around here is that old shit on a shingle trainer sittin' right over there.
[soldiers pull down tarp to reveal an older plane; Donna's face lights up at the sight of it, as Loomis looks over to her for approval]
Donna Stratton: [nodding and whispering her approval] It's fine, it's fine. Let's go!

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Donna Stratton: [smiling mischievously, Donna takes off her hat and lets her hair down, staring at Loomis intently, who is transfixed on flying the plane] This thing handles pretty well, even if it's not a B-17. But...
[moves over to him, unbuckles his front belt]
Donna Stratton: does it have much *range*, Loomis?
Captain Loomis Birkhead: [too tightly focused on flying the plane] Huh?
Donna Stratton: [caressing his face] I mean, do you think it'll stay *up* for a long time?
[starts sucking on his ear, feels up his chest]
Captain Loomis Birkhead: [still too tightly focused on flying the plane] Sure. Hell, we've used less than a quarter of a tank of gas already.
[his head jerks out the window for a moment]
Captain Loomis Birkhead: Look! We're already over the Riverside County Reservoir!
[she ignores him and starts kissing his cheek and caressing his chin]

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Captain Loomis Birkhead: [Donna has his uniform open and is trying to tear off his T-shirt; he is *still* too focused on actually flying the plane] Donna - Donna would you lay off? I'm trying to steer!
Donna Stratton: [upset and frustrated] What's wrong, Loomis? You're not airborne yet!
Captain Loomis Birkhead: What are you talking about? Look out the window, of course we're airborne!
Donna Stratton: We are, but -
[looks down at his pants then straight in the eye]
Donna Stratton: but you're not.
[kisses him passionately]

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Donna Stratton: [Loomis is all over her, but briefly breaks away to steer the plane; exhausted] Is the target in sight yet, Loomis?
Captain Loomis Birkhead: Oh, it will be, j-just as soon as I make it through these...
[stares at her breasts]
Captain Loomis Birkhead: hills.
[starts kissing her again]

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Colonel Akiro Mitamura: This has not been honorable...

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General Joseph W. Stilwell: You can't have an air raid without bombs!

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Colonel Akiro Mitamura: Destroy that industrial complex!

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Betty Douglas: Wally!

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General Joseph W. Stilwell: [to Birkhead, ignoring the dirt-covered corporal who pulls up in front of them at the movie theater] Come on. I don't want to miss Dumbo.

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Wally Stephens: I know I can't beat you in a fair fight.
Cpl. Chuck 'Stretch' Sitarski: [scoffs] Stupid, I don't fight fair.
Wally Stephens: Neither do I!
[kicks Stretch in the crotch, then hits him across the face with a gun belt. Stretch smiles dumbly for a second then falls over]

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Captain Loomis Birkhead: [kneeling down as he spots Donna from a distance] Is that the general's new secretary?
Pvt. DuBois: Yeah, she just came in from HQ. Not bad, huh?
Captain Loomis Birkhead: [incredulous] Not bad? She's a goddess, DuBois, a goddamn goddess! That is Donna Stratton! I knew her back in Washington. She has got this thing for planes.
Pvt. DuBois: One of those real high flying types, huh?
Captain Loomis Birkhead: I've never seen anything like it... she's got *planes* on the *brain*!

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General Joseph W. Stilwell: [annoyed] Where's Birkhead? He's supposed to have my lunch.
Donna Stratton: [whistling, dreamy] B-17. Mmm...
[heads for the B-17 with a dreamy smile on her face]
Captain Loomis Birkhead: No man has ever gotten to first base with her on the ground. But get her up in a plane, she'll bat your balls right out of the park.

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Captain Loomis Birkhead: [after the reporter runs off] I tell ya, DuBois, there are drawbacks to being a general's aide. I mean, the general could have been a few minutes later, now couldn't he?
Pvt. DuBois: Well, it is wartime, sir, we all have to make sacrifices.

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Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [after parking his fighter plane in front of a gas station with the engine running] Fill her up! Ethel!
Gas Mama: Where?

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Captain Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt: [in German, to Hollis P. Wood who is on the toilet] Now you WILL shit! That is an order!

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Japanese soldier: [while the radio is tapped into the USO dance] Sir, Hollywood!
Colonel Akiro Mitamura: Lock onto that signal. We will follow it and blow the shit out of something big.

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Wally Stephens: Hey Betty, look! There's Officer Miller! That's the flatfoot who sent me up the river!
[Officer Miller is seen talking to a few people]
Officer Miller: I'm telling you, I saw those sons of Nip coming up the beach right now...
[the tank rumbles past Miller and the people]
Wally Stephens: Hey Miller, look at me!
Officer Miller: [shouts] Wally?
Wally Stephens: Hey copper, don't you know there's a blackout? Turn out your lights!
[Wally opens fire at Officer Miller's police car, destroying it]

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