A Walk in the Sun (1945)

Richard Conte: Pvt. Rivera

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Quotes 

• Friedman : You ever think you'll live to make corporal?

  Rivera : Baby, I just want to live long enough to make civilian.

• Rivera : Nobody dies.

• Rivera : It could've been something else. It could've been the engineers or the tanks. It could even have been the Navy. They looked at me and said, "Here's a guy that can walk." They finished me, all right.

  Friedman : Everybody walks. Even monkeys.

• Friedman : Where are we going, Rivera?

  Rivera : I am going someplace where I can set up this weapon. Then I am going to shoot this weapon. I am not gonna walk any more!

• Rivera : Did you ever go camping when you were a kid?

  Friedman : Every time we get in a bunch of trees, you ask me the same question.

  Rivera : Every time I get in a bunch of trees, I remember it.

  Friedman : For the millionth time, no - I never went camping when I was a kid. I lived in the city.

  Rivera : I lived in the city, too, schmeggege. I got on the train.

  Friedman : Yeah, you told me.

  Rivera : Well, I'm telling you again.

  Friedman : You're a jukebox, Rivera. Somebody keeps putting nickels into you.

• Rivera : [turning away from Friedman]  I ain't talkin' to you no more. Hey, Judson!

  Pvt. Judson : [running up from the rear]  Yeah?

  Rivera : You ever go camping in the woods?

  Pvt. Judson : What woods?

  Rivera : [to Friedman, jerking thumb towards Judson]  Get that, willya?

  [to Judson] 

  Rivera : ANY woods!

  Pvt. Judson : No.

  Rivera : That's it! You don't know what you missed. You ain't never lived until you toasted a mickey over the coals. It ain't like Army chow. You can sit around the campfire - you can shoot it all nght, if you want to. You can go fishing - all that kinda stuff.

  Friedman : [sarcastically]  Outdoor man.

  Rivera : Next time they make you a civilian, Judson, try a camp in the woods. Tell 'em I sent you.

  Pvt. Judson : Tell who?

  Rivera : The birds - and the bees! Did your old man ever tell you about the birds and the bees?

  Pvt. Judson : No.

  Rivera : Hear that, Friedman? Judson never heard of the birds and bees.

  Friedman : That's terrible!

  Rivera : Shall we tell him?

  Friedman : Maybe we'd better.

  Rivera : Give us a butt, Judson; we'll tell you alllll about the birds and the bees.

  Pvt. Judson : Ain't got a butt.

• Rivera : Good thing they invented trains for travelling salesmen.

  Friedman : OK, kill me: what's the gag?

  Rivera : No gag. But if they didn't have trains, all the travelling salesmen would have to walk.

  Friedman : *You're* a travelling salesman; you ain't been taking any trains lately.

  Rivera : Whaddaya mean, *I'm* a travelling salesman? I'm a murderer!

  Friedman : You're a travelling salesmen. You're selling democracy to the natives.

  Rivera : So that's what I am, huh? Whaddaya know. Where'd you get that malarkey, Jake?

  Friedman : Out of a book.

  Rivera : A book!

  Friedman : You're a decadent democrat, Rivera.

• Rivera : [as the two Italian soldiers are being interrogated for information by Tyne and Porter]  Rivera: Ask 'em if they know where I can get a pizza.