Montgomery Clift crédité pour le rôle de...
Robert E. Lee Prewitt
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: I love the army.
- Alma: But it sure doesn't love you.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: A man loves a thing, that don't mean it's gotta love him back.
- Alma: Yeah, but a person can stand just so much.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: You love a thing, you've got to be grateful.
- Alma: Sit down and - and get comfortable. I'll make you a martini and see what's to cook for dinner.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Hey, this is like being married, ain't it?
- Alma: It's better.
- Alma: Prew, it's true we love each other now, we need each other, but back in the States it might be different.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: That ain't the real reason.
- Alma: You're right, it's not.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: What is the real reason?
- Alma: I - I won't marry you because I don't want to be the wife of a soldier.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Well, that... would be about the best I could ever do for you.
- Alma: Because nobody's going to stop me from my plan. Nobody, nothing. Because I want to be proper!
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Proper.
- Alma: Yes, proper! In another year I'll have enough money saved. Then I'm going to go back to my home town in Oregon, and I'm going to build a house for my mother and myself, and join the country club and take up golf. Then I'll meet the proper man with the proper position, to make a proper wife, and can run a proper home and raise proper children. And I'll be HAPPY because when you're PROPER you're SAFE!
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: You've got guts, honey. I hope you can pull that off.
- Alma: I do mean it when I say I need you. 'Cause I'm lonely. You think I'm lying, don't you?
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
- Alma: [Maggio offers her a drink] No, thanks, I don't drink.
- [Maggio gives her a look]
- Alma: I think it's a weakness.
- Angelo Maggio: I grant ya that.
- Alma: [to Prewitt] You don't like weakness do you?
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: No, I don't like weakness... but I like to drink!
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: You've been hoggin' the Whiskey Angelo...
- Angelo Maggio: Not me buddy. Its that Sandra, shes a nice girl, but she drinks like a fish!
- Angelo Maggio: [Picks up glass and tosses leftover outside the window] Hope there's a cop under that!
- [Big laugh]
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: A man don't go his own way, he's nothing.
- Sergeant Milton Warden: Maybe back in the days of the pioneers a man could go his own way, but today you got to play ball.
- Sergeant Milton Warden: [Prewitt and Warden are sitting in the middle of a road, very drunk] There's this girl, and she wants me to be... wants me to be...
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Be what?
- Sergeant Milton Warden: An officer! Can you believe that? Can you see *me* as an officer?
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Well... yeah, I can see you as an officer. You'd be a good officer...
- Sergeant Milton Warden: Well, you can both see more than I can! I don' wanna be an officer! I'm happy where I am!
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Why do they call you Friday?
- Pvt. Friday Clark - Bugler: I don't know. I was born on a Wednesday.
- Captain Dana Holmes: You know why you were assigned to G Company?
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: No, sir.
- Captain Dana Holmes: I pulled a few strings. I'm the regimental boxing coach, you know.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Yes, sir.
- Captain Dana Holmes: I saw your fight with Connors in the Bowl, year before last. You should've won it.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Thank you, sir.
- Captain Dana Holmes: Our regiment got beaten in the finals last December, but I mean to win this year. All I've needed is a top middleweight.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: I'm sorry, sir. I quit fighting.
- Captain Dana Holmes: Quit fighting? When? What for?
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Well, over a year ago. Maybe you heard about what happened with Dixie Wells?
- Captain Dana Holmes: You mean that fellow that got hurt?
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Yes sir.
- Captain Dana Holmes: Yes, I heard about that. It's too bad. I can understand how you feel, but those things happen.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: That's WHY I decided I would quit, sir.
- Captain Dana Holmes: You might as well say stop war because one man got killed! Our fighting program is the best morale builder we have.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Well, what am I? I'm a private no-class dogface. The way most civilians look at that, that's two steps up from nothin'.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Ain't nothin' the matter with a soldier that ain't the matter with everyone else.
- Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson: Are you sore about something?
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: I don't like the way you play the piano.
- [Fatso laughs]
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Remember Maggio?
- Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson: Oh, the wop? Yeah, real tough monkey.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: You killed him.
- Sgt. James R. 'Fatso' Judson: Did I? Well if I did, he asked for it.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: The Army's gonna get you sooner or later, Fatso. But before they do, I want a piece of you myself.
- [Fatso pulls out a switch blade]
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: I figured that.
- [pulls out a switch blade]
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: See this knife? This is the one you pulled on Maggio.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Put your clothes on, alright?
- Angelo Maggio: [drunk] Give 'em back to the Indians. The Indians need the clothes. All they wear is G-strings.
- Annette: That'll be four bucks, babyface. Two for initiation fee, two for this month's dues.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: What do I get for it?
- Annette: Members are entitled to all privileges of the club, which includes dancing, snack bar, soft drink bar, and gentlemanly relaxation with the opposite gender - so long as they ARE gentlemen, and no liquor is permitted, got it?
- Sergeant Milton Warden: You'd better know how to soldier.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: I can soldier with any man.
- Angelo Maggio: You quit the Bugle Corps?
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: Yep
- Angelo Maggio: For here?
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: I didn't pick it.
- Angelo Maggio: Oh, you made a very bad mistake. This outfit, they can give back to General Custer.
- Karen Holmes: I had a boyfriend. I was a waitress, and he was from the richest family in town. He just married a girl suitable for his position. After three years of going around with me. It's a pretty story, isn't it? Maybe they could write a book about it.
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: They did. Thousands of them.
- Alma: What do you think Mrs. Kipfer hires us for? She pays us to be nice to all the boys. You're all alike. Is it so important?
- Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: It is important. We may seem all alike. We ain't all alike.