The Hanoi Hilton (1987)

Lawrence Pressman: Cathcart

Quotes 

• Cathcart : [Making an announcement to the other prisoners in the "Hanoi Hilton"]  In the meantime, hear this, and pass it on: The Code of Conduct will apply to all American servicemen in here. Nobody handed you a "Discharge" when you got captured. We will keep the faith--in God, in country, in one another. We will honor military ranks and obey the Senior Ranking Officer at all times. For the time being, until I hear different, I am that SRO. My orders are simple. Firstly: save everything. Collect every piece of scrap you can find. It'll all come in handy. Secondly: stay in contact at all times. You must contact every arrival. You must memorize every name. We will manipulate the enemy, but we will not antagonize him needlessly. You catch more flies with honey, than with vinegar. No matter what they do to us, we are Americans. If we help, and support, one another, we... will... prevail.

• Miles : Soldier on, Colonel! Soldier on!

  Cathcart : You too, flyer! You too!... Williamson's the new SRO!

  Williamson : Me? Oh, shit...

  Cathcart : Good luck!