Jihmi Kennedy credited as playing...
Pvt. Jupiter Sharts
- John Rawlins: Where about you from?
- Trip: I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.
- Sharts: What ya doin' since then?
- Trip: I run for President.
- [laughter]
- Trip: I didn't win though.
- Jupiter Sharts: [praying aloud] Tommorrow we goes into battle, so Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand, and the Good Book in the other. So that if I may die at the muzzle of the rifle... die on water, or on land, I may know that you blessed Jesus almighty are with me... and I have no fear.
- Sgt. Mulcahy: Company, halt!
- [to Sharts]
- Sgt. Mulcahy: For God's sake, man! Do you not know your right from your left?
- Sharts: N-n-no, sah.
- Sgt. Mulcahy: How many here do not know right from left?
- [Half a dozen hands are raised]
- Sgt. Mulcahy: [mutters] Jesus have pity.
- [smacks Sharts in the chest]
- Sgt. Mulcahy: This is your *front*!
- [slaps his back]
- Sgt. Mulcahy: This is your *rear*!
- [stomps on his right foot]
- Sgt. Mulcahy: This is your *right*!
- [goes to stomp on his left foot]
- Sgt. Mulcahy: And this...!
- [Sharts lifts his foot out of the way]
- Sgt. Mulcahy: Now you're learnin', boy-o!
- Jupiter Sharts: [seeing that Thomas is reading] Good book, brother?
- Cpl. Thomas Searles: Yes it is, actually. The name's Searles, Thomas Searles.
- Jupiter Sharts: Jupiter Sharts, sir. What it 'bout, that book?
- Cpl. Thomas Searles: It's a collection of essays, actually... Fourier, Emerson... all the transcendentalists.
- Jupiter Sharts: [nods smiling] It got pictures?