The West Point Story (1950)
Virginia Mayo: Eve Dillon
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Quotes
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Eve Dillon : You heel! Can't even pay a hotel bill! In debt up to your ears, and it's horses! Horses every second you're awake! Horses, horses, horses!
Elwin 'Bix' Bixby : [unapologetically] I don't drink or smoke.
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Elwin 'Bix' Bixby : Take 10, sweetheart.
Eve Dillon : [angrily] Take 10? I've been "taking 10" ever since I've known you - watching you fight your way to the bottom!
Elwin 'Bix' Bixby : [unperturbed] I don't fight, baby. I'm a lover.
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Eve Dillon : Isn't this wonderful? Think of this place, its history, its tradition. Think of all the great men who came from here. General Grant, Eisenhower, Pershing.
Elwin 'Bix' Bixby : Benedict Arnold. He tried hard to give this joint to the British. I think he should have his case reviewed.
Eve Dillon : Look at that scenery, those buildings.
Elwin 'Bix' Bixby : Alcatraz on the Hudson. And get a load of this weather. Cold enough to freeze the medals off a brass general.
Eve Dillon : Oh, Bix, stop beefing.
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Eve Dillon : That Gilbert is a cute hunk of cadet, but he's no princess.
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Eve Dillon : Why not use a real girl? A local. A daughter of one of the officers, maybe, to play the part?
Elwin 'Bix' Bixby : There are to be no females in this show.
Eve Dillon : One woman couldn't hurt.
Elwin 'Bix' Bixby : That's what Adam said, Eve.
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Eve Dillon : I accepted their invitation for you to become a cadet.
Elwin 'Bix' Bixby : You what?
Eve Dillon : You heard me.
Elwin 'Bix' Bixby : And I just accepted an invitation for you to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Now, who goes first?
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Eve Dillon : I can't compete with movie stars.
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Eve Dillon : Remember Cupid: you shot the arrow.
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Eve Dillon : Remind me sometime to tell you about boys and girls.
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Elwin 'Bix' Bixby : [last lines - singing] And now that it's over, I'll sure miss the going to classes. Miss you cadets, yes, the brasses. So take my thanks to all the ranks, with love and kisses.
West Point Chorus , Elwin 'Bix' Bixby , Eve Dillon , Jan Wilson , Tom Fletcher , Bull Gilbert , Hal Courtland : This is the finale, The End.