Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

Millard Mitchell: Gen. Pritchard

Quotes 

• General Savage : No, Sir. I didn't hear a thing. It must have been radio malfunction.

  General Pritchard : Do you mean you're going to stick to that fairy tale?

  General Savage : Yes, sir. There's one more thing you might as well know, sir. The 918th got through today, and bombed the target when nobody else did. And if Providence ever drops into my lap, another chance like that to give this group the pride it out to have in itself, I may have radio malfunction again, sir.

• General Pritchard : I guess I don't have to tell you what's coming, Frank. I'm promising you nothing except a job no man should have to do who's already had more than his share of combat. I've gotta ask you to take nice kids and fly them until they can't take any more, and then put 'em back in and fly 'em some more. We've got to try to find out just what a maximum effort is. How much a man can take and get it all.

  [sighs] 

  General Pritchard : I don't even know if any man can do it. That's what cracked Keith.

  [pause] 

  General Pritchard : What time do you think you can get down there tomorrow?

  General Savage : Early, I guess.

  General Pritchard : No squawks?

  General Savage : Pretty hard to have one the way you put it.

• General Pritchard : I believe that to a certain degree, a man makes his own luck.