Red Buttons credited as playing...
Joe Kelly
- Hana-ogi: [watching a traditional Japanese puppet performance about two doomed lovers] It is custom for lovers to die together when they can no longer face life.
- Katsumi: [dreamily] It is so beautiful.
- Joe Kelly: "Beautiful"? They're gonna' die, aren't they?
- Katsumi: [dreamily] They will live in another world, on a beautiful lake, floating always together - like water lily.
- Joe Kelly: Sure.
- Joe Kelly: [Major Gruver is entering Joe Kelly's Japanese home for the first time] Hey, off with the shoes. You don't wear shoes in a Japanese house.
- Major Gruver: Okay, comin' off... What about the pants?
- Joe Kelly: Boy, she sure does something wicked to a bathing suit.
- Major Gruver: She has an enormous capacity to fulfill a bathing suit.
- Joe Kelly: l can see that.
- Joe Kelly: She says that Hana-ogi will not speak to an American.
- Major Gruver: Well, why not?
- Joe Kelly: We shot her brother and killed her father with our bombs.
- Major Gruver: Oh, shoot. l didn't do it.
- Captain Bailey: Sure you did, Ace. We all did.
- Joe Kelly: How about playing poker with Katsumi and me?
- Major Gruver: Oh, l'll be delighted to take your money *and* your pants.
- Joe Kelly: [Katsumi giving Joe a bath] Just a little lower. I little lower, Katsumi. You always seem to be a little above it. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Joe Kelly: Is Hana-ogi coming over tonight?
- Major Gruver: Yeah, if she can get away. We're going to cook up some fine St. Louis goulash - with a little Memphis greens in there.
- Joe Kelly: Hana-ogi, will you tell that stupid dame l love her the way she is? l don't want her changed! Will you tell her l love her mouth and her nose and her ears and her eyes *just* the way they are?