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The Wild Geese (1978) More at IMDbPro »

Faulkner: There is a clause in all of my contracts, that my liver is to be buried separately, and, with honors.

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Col. Faulkner: I'm dry when I work.
Matheson: Yes, so I've heard.
Col. Faulkner: There's a separate clause in my contract that says my liver is to be buried separately with honors.
Matheson: I'm not a very humorous man.
Col. Faulkner: So I've noticed.

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[as the enemy attacks]
Esposito: We're dead!
RSM Sandy Young: Esposito, you're not dead until I TELL you you're dead.

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RSM Sandy Young: Get up
Samuels: I can't, sir. I'm dead.

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RSM Sandy Young: "Get on your feet, you fuckin' abortion!"

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Lt. Shawn Fynn: That's one of the most moving benedictions I ever heard.

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Fr. Geoghagen, the Priest: Good luck to you, you Godless murderers.

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Faulkner: Jesse, I'm glad to got my wire.
Sgt. Jesse Blake: So am I, sir... it was my breakfast.

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Col. Faulkner: Sandy?
RSM Sandy Young: Sir!
Col. Faulkner: There's your killing ground. Take Tosh and four other men and set up a field of fire. Rafer and I will go deep around and take them in the flank.

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Julius Limbani: The man is dead, Mr. Faulkner. Now only the spirit remains.

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[after womanizer Sean Finn fails at a simulated parachute drop]
RSM Sandy Young: That was LUDICROUS, sir. You're jumping from an aeroplane, not a whorehouse window. Do it again.

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Matheson (laughing): Well, then I suppose you'd better kill me.
Faulkner: You're a remarkable man too, Sir Edward. So I suppose I better had.

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Faulkner: What do I call you? SIR Edward?
Matheson: You do.

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RSM Sandy Young: Sir! With respect, you can stick the money up your arse that's all I can offer you sir. - I love what I do, I also love these grubby, thickheaded men I trained - you most of all and I expect to be with them and with you because I'm needed. You want to see a REAL revolution? Try and stop me.

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Keith: Who are you leaving your money to, Queenie?
Medical Orderly Arthur Witty: Well, if it's any of your business, To the dearest, kindest proctologist in the whole wide world.
Keith: What's that?
Medical Orderly Arthur Witty: "Bum-doctor" to you, chubby cheeks.

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Medical Orderly Arthur Witty: [defending a retreat against impossible odds] Get yer lovely arses out of here! I'm just holdin' the fort!

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Lt. Pieter Coetze: [in advance of the mission, the officers are discussing the best way of overcoming some sentry posts] And ther's no cover from 100 yards? I'd use a crossbow.
Lt. Shawn Fynn: Who do you think you are, William Tell?

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Shawn Fynn: I may have a job for you.
Lt. Pieter Coetze: Thanks, I went to prison once, I didn't like it.

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Sir Edward Matherson: You drink whisky I take it, soda or water?
Faulkner: Large and straight, thank you.

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Faulkner: Is your wife at home?
RSM Sandy Young: Yes sir, she'll be delighted to see you.
Faulkner: I don't think so. I think we'd better talk out here!

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Faulkner: Let's talk about your father.

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Faulkner: Thirty men in the valley of the shadow, and he wants to take over an entire country!

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RSM Sandy Young: Some of you know me already! Those of you who don't are in for a great, big fuckin' surprise! For those of you who do can expect an infinitely more horrible time than they can remember! Any man here who steps out of line and I will kill stone dead, it will not worry me in the slightest! There are no Queen's regulations here! When I say jump, you ask how high,Do I make myself clear? I want to hear it! Do I make myself clear? RIGHT! On the command Right and Left turn, A and B squads turn to the right, C and D squads turn to the left. SQUADS! Right and Left TURN! Right! Let's drive for our first heart attack shall we!

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Lt. Shawn Fynn: That's the best news I've had since I threw up my breakfast.

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Faulkner: [after the parachute drop] Shawn, how goes it?
Lt. Shawn Fynn: [in some discomfort] Oh fine, fine thanks. I tell you, Jock, that's it. My heels are where my balls used to be.

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Sgt. Jock McTaggart: I just like to fight, with weapons or without.

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Lt. Shawn Fynn: [referring to the radio callsigns for his men and for their transport aircraft] Iron Man,Wild Goose! Sounds like a finger up a tin man's backside,doesn't it?

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Capt. Rafer Janders: Father Geoghagen... my God... I thought you were dead... long ago
Fr. Geoghagen, the Priest: Looking at you and your guns... I am

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