Ambush Bay (1966)

Hugh O'Brian: Sgt. Steve Corey

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• Sgt. Steve Corey : [noting that Private Grenier has walked away and left the portable radio set unattended]  Come back here, Marine. I'm going to tell you this just once. This radio is part of you. You don't put it down, ever. You don't eat, you don't sleep, you don't breathe without it. You read me, Private? I don't want to see it again without you wrapped around it.

  Pvt. James Grenier : Sergeant Corey, if this radio is more important to this mission than you *or* me, don't you think you should tell me what the hell I'm supposed to accomplish with it?

  Sgt. Steve Corey : I'll tell you when the time comes.

  Pvt. James Grenier : But don't you think the time is come, I mean, how many more men are we supposed to lose?

  Sgt. Steve Corey : We're not supposed to lose *any* men, Private.

• Sgt. Steve Corey : [to Private Grenier]  Stay away from things that you've never done - like thinking.

• Sgt. Steve Corey : Please get Miyazaki, bring him here.

  Midori : Yes, sir.

  Miyazaki : [entering the room, looks at Sgt. Corey]  God... Who are you?

  Sgt. Steve Corey : [expecting Miyazaki to be a man, not a Geisha girl]  Now, look ladies, I ain't got a lot of time. I'm looking for a guy named Miyazaki and I'm not above slitting both your lovely throats to find him. Now, where is he?

  Miyazaki : I am Miyazaki.

  Sgt. Steve Corey : Don't fool with me lady.

• Miyazaki : Don't you ever complain, Sergeant?

  Sgt. Steve Corey : Sure.

  Miyazaki : I haven't heard you say a word yet.

  Sgt. Steve Corey : I'm in charge. I can't.

  Miyazaki : What did you do before the war?

  Sgt. Steve Corey : Complained.

  Miyazaki : Of what?

  Sgt. Steve Corey : Everything... The Depression, Hitler, downtown Cincinnati, my kid brothers. You want to swap life stories?

  Miyazaki : How many kid brothers?

  Sgt. Steve Corey : Two. Billy was killed in North Africa, Don just made the Marine Corps.

  Miyazaki : When did you make the Marine Corps?

  Sgt. Steve Corey : December 8, 1941, at 9 A.M.

  Miyazaki : What were you doing when the war started?

  Sgt. Steve Corey : Making love... to a 40-year old divorcee who made a career out of her figure.

  Miyazaki : I meant, *where* were you?

  Sgt. Steve Corey : Fountain Plaza hotel. Beach boy, towel dispenser, head gigolo all rolled into one. Yeah, that was a great life. Too bad there had to be a war.

  Miyazaki : Yes, isn't it? My folks would still be in their home in Long Beach... instead of the internment camp out by the Santa Anita racetrack. I suppose it's for our own protection. Maybe they're afraid we'll poison your gardens.