Seven Days Ashore (1944)

Alan Carney: Orval 'Handsome' Martin

Quotes 

• Monty Stephens : [to the Bosun's Mate]  There's three things that worry me, Chief, ever since we had to drop out of the convoy. Where are we, where we're headed, and do you think we'll make it?

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : Yeah, and will the beer be cold when we get there?

• Orval 'Handsome' Martin : There's certainly a lot of stupid people in this world.

  Monty Stephens : You can say that again!

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : There's certainly a lot od stupid people in this world.

• Orval 'Handsome' Martin : [Playing solitaire]  Seven more months on this paddle boat and I'll be talking to myself!

  Monty Stephens : Well, don't listen, or you'll be bored.

• Orval 'Handsome' Martin : All my life I've wanted to kiss a - lady bass horn player.

  Monty Stephens : Boy, give me a saxophone. It's got more range.

• Dan Arland Jr. : Snap out of it. It's a beautiful morning. The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming. We got six days left to go. What more do you want out of life?

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : A lady baseball player.

• Dan Arland Jr. : Well, isn't that about what it says?

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : Well, if it is, she sure is beating around the bush.

• Monty Stephens : I'm gonna just sit over here awhile and brood over the girl that left me behind.

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : Yeah, I should have stood on board ship with my pinup girls.

• Dan Arland Jr. : You're my pals, aren't you?

  Monty Stephens : Well, recklessly speaking, yes.

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : Now, I bet I don't even get a lady bugler.

• Dan Arland Jr. : I'm afraid that both girls are a trifle, shall we say, mercenary.

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : Oh, go ahead and be vague. We're confused anyhow.

• Orval 'Handsome' Martin : [on the phone]  $500, 000? Look Hoskins, How many times have I told to not to bother me with truffles, eh, trifles. Certainly buy it! What do you think I pay you 5,000 a week for?

  [hangs up phone, to Carol and Lucy] 

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : That was my breaker.

  Monty Stephens : Broker.

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : Broker.

• Monty Stephens : If cupid shoots you in the pants with an arrow, what have you got?

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : Tail feathers?