Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Frank Sinatra: Col. Joseph L. Ryan
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Quotes
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Colonel Joseph L. Ryan : Major, you will order the men to strip.
[pause]
Colonel Joseph L. Ryan : Major, I said "strip." Get it? All clothes, off. Naked.
[Major turns around]
Maj. Eric Fincham : [Yelling] Parade...
[his voice drops]
Maj. Eric Fincham : strip.
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Colonel Joseph L. Ryan : Captain Costanzo, I said strip off all your clothes.
Costanzo : Sorry, sir, but I take being a member of the cloth literally.
[the men laugh]
Colonel Joseph L. Ryan : I bow to your convictions, Captain.
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Sergeant Bostick : [referring to Fincham and the Britsh] It took 200 years to turn out these men, Sergeant. It took me 90 days.
Sergeant Bostick : They're nuts, sir.
Colonel Joseph L. Ryan : Maybe so, but it's their ball game.
Private Ames : And we're still shut out!
Corporal Giannini : We did that good with just a sergeant!
Private Ames : Now we got us a bird-colonel.
Colonel Joseph L. Ryan : A bird colonel outranks a bird brain... clear?
Corporal Giannini : [contemtuously after Ryan walks away] Bird is right... chicken!
Sergeant Bostick : OK, OK, now we know we're on our own.
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Capt. Oriani : He says you are no gentleman, Colonel.
Colonel Joseph L. Ryan : Only by an act of Congress.
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Maj. Eric Fincham : [after Ryan spares Battaglia] You fool! You soft-headed sentimental fool!
Colonel Joseph L. Ryan : That's privilege of rank.
Maj. Eric Fincham : Damn your rank!
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Colonel Joseph L. Ryan : [to Orde, who is guarding Von Klemment] Lieutenant, if he wiggles, put a hole in him.
