Stalag 17 (1953)
Neville Brand: Duke
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Quotes
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Sefton : What is this anyway, a kangaroo court? Why don't you get a rope and do it right?
Duke : You make my mouth water.
Sefton : You're all wire-happy, boys. You've been in this camp too long. You put two and two together and it comes out four - only it ain't four.
Hoffy : What's it add up to you, Sefton?
Sefton : It adds up that you got yourselves the wrong guy. Because, I'm telling you, the krauts wouldn't plant two stoolies in one barracks. And whatever you do to me, you're gonna have to do all over again when you find the right guy.
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Hoffy : They ought to be under the barbed wire soon.
Shapiro : Looks good outside.
Animal : I hope they hit the Danube before dawn.
Price : They've got a good chance. The longest night of the year.
Duke : I'll bet they make it to Friedrichshaven.
Animal : I bet they make it all the way to Switzerland.
Sefton : And I bet they don't get out of the forest.
Duke : Now what kind of crack is that?
Sefton : No crack. Two packs of cigarettes say they don't get out of the forest.
Hoffy : That's enough, Sefton. Crawl back in your sack.
Shapiro : He'd make book on his own mother getting hit by a truck.
Sefton : Anybody call?
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Duke : Come on, Trader Horn, let's hear it. What'd you give the krauts for that egg?
Sefton : 45 cigarettes. Price has gone up.
Duke : They wouldn't be the cigarettes you took us for last night?
Sefton : What was I gonna do with them? I only smoke cigars.
Duke : Niiice guy. The krauts shoot Manfredi and Johnson last night, and today he's out trading with them.
Sefton : Look. This may be my last hot breakfast on account of they're going to take that stove out of here, so would you let me eat it in peace?
Animal : Now ain't that too bad? Tomorrow you'll have to suck a raw egg.
Shapiro : Oh, he don't have to worry. He can always trade the krauts for a six-burner gas range. Maybe a deep freeze, too.
Sefton : What's the beef, boys? So I'm trading. Everybody here is trading. So maybe I trade a little sharper. That make me a collaborator?
Duke : A lot sharper, Sefton. I'd like to have some of that loot you got in those footlockers.
Sefton : Oh you would, would you? Listen, stupe. The first week I was in this joint, somebody stole my Red Cross package, my blanket, and my left shoe. Well, since then I've wised up. This ain't no Salvation Army - this is everybody for himself, dog eat dog.
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Price : Anybody asks for your papers, you're French laborers. And here's your map, Kraut money, Swiss francs.
Sgt. Manfredi : Roger.
Price : All right, now let's hear it one more time, boys.
Sgt. Johnson : We've been over it a hundred times.
Hoffy : Let's hear it again.
Sgt. Manfredi : We stick to the forest going west until we hit the Danube.
Price : Check.
Sgt. Johnson : Then we follow the Danube up to Linz.
Price : Check.
Sgt. Johnson : In Linz, we hop a barge and go all the way to Ulm.
Price : Check.
Duke : [Joey begins playing his ocarina] Stop it, Joey. Joey!
[he stops]
Duke : Go back to sleep.
Price : Go on. You're in Ulm.
Sgt. Johnson : Once in Ulm, we lie low until night. Then we take a train to Friedrichshafen.
Sgt. Manfredi : Once in Friedrichshafen, we steal a rowboat, get some fishing tackle, and start drifting across the lake, always south, 'til we hit the other side. Switzerland.
Sefton : Once in Switzerland, just give out with a big yodel, boys, so we'll know you're there. It's a breeze.
Hoffy : Stay out of this, Sefton.
Sefton : Just one question. Did you calculate the risk?
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Hoffy : I called a meeting of the barracks chiefs this morning, Sefton. I thought maybe I could get you transferred to another barracks. But it turns out that nobody likes you any more than we do.
Sefton : So you're stuck with me, huh?
Animal : Maybe the Russian broads would take him.
Shapiro : Not with that kisser. Not anymore.
Duke : You got off lucky last night, Sefton. One more move, and you'll wake up with your throat cut!
Price : You listening, Sefton?
Sefton : Yeah, I still got one good ear.
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Price : You guys have some machine gun practice last night?
Sgt. Schulz : Oh, terrible. Such foolish boys. Such nice boys. I'd better not talk about it. It makes me sick to my stomach. Aufstehen. Aufstehen. Aufstehen. Roll call, everybody. Raus. Raus.
Duke : You killed them, huh? Both of 'em?
Sgt. Schulz : Oh, such nice boys. It makes me sick to my...
Duke : Don't wear it out!
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Duke : How come the Krauts knew about that stove, Security? And the tunnel? How come you can't lay down a belch around here without them knowin' it?
Price : Look, if you don't like the way I'm handling this job, go get yourself...
Hoffy : Kill it, Duke. It's got us all spinnin'.
Duke : I just wanna know what makes them Krauts so smart.
Animal : Maybe they do it with radar. Maybe they got a mic hidden somewhere.
Shapiro : Yeah. Right up Joey's ocarina.
Duke : Or maybe it's not that they're so smart. Maybe it's that we're sto stupid. Maybe there's somebody in our barracks tipping 'em off, like one of us!
Sefton : You don't say.
Duke : Yes, I do say! One of us is a stoolie. A dirty, stinking stoolie!
Sefton : Is that Einstein's theory or did you figure it out for yourself?
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Price : How come you were so sure Manfredi and Johnson wouldn't get out of the forest?
Sefton : I wasn't so sure. I just liked the odds. What's that crack supposed to mean?
Price : They're lying dead out there in the mud and I'm trying to find out how come.
Sefton : I'll tell you how come. Because you, our security officer, said it'd be safe.
[to Hoffy]
Sefton : And you, the barracks chief, gave them the green light. That's how come. What are you guys trying to prove, anyway? Cuttin' trap doors, digging tunnels.
Duke : Listen, Sefton...
Sefton : You listen to me! What do you think the chances are of gettin' out of here? And let's say you make it to Switzerland. Let's say to the States. So what? They ship you out to the Pacific, slap you in another plane, and you get shot down again. Only this time you wind up in a Japanese prison camp. That is if you're lucky. Well, I'm no escape artist. Cigar, Cookie. You can be the heroes, the guys with fruit salad on your chest. Me, I'm stayin' put. And I'm gonna make myself as comfortable as I can. And if it takes a little trading with the enemy to get me some food or a better mattress, that's okay by Sefton.
Duke : [Sefton lights a match on his jacket sleeve] Why, you crud. This war's gonna be over someday. Then what you do you think we'll do to Kraut-kissers like you?
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Hoffy : Hey, Sefton. What's the big idea? Take that telescope out of here.
Sefton : Says who?
Hoffy : Says me.
Sefton : You take it out. Only you're gonna have a riot on your hands.
Hoffy : Every time the men get Red Cross packages, you have to think up some angle to rob 'em.
Price : When the Krauts find that gadget, they'll throw us all in the boob.
Sefton : They know about that gadget. I'd worry more about that radio.
Duke : Maybe they also know about your distillery and the horse races.
Sefton : That's right.
Duke : Just what makes you and them Krauts so buddy-buddy?
Sefton : Ask Security. Go on, tell him, Price. You've got me shadowed every minute of the day. Or haven't you figured it out yet?
Price : Not yet.
Hoffy : Answer the question. How do you rate all these privileges?
Sefton : I grease the Kraut guards. I give 'em ten percent of the take.
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Animal : [finding a pair of pantyhose in Sefton's foot locker] For crying out loud. What would he be doing with these?
Duke : Suppose you ask me. Go on, ask me. Because I got the goods on Mr. Sefton. Because this time, he didn't shake me.
[setting up the telescope at the window]
Duke : Take a look for yourself. It'll curdle your guts.
Animal : [realizing] The Russian women!
Hoffy : [ushering him out of the way] Get away.
Duke : Here, try the end window, where the candy is.
Shapiro : Come on, Hoffy, we all want to see.
Hoffy : How'd he get over there?
Duke : Easy. Walked right through the gate, past the guard, like he was some Kraut field marshal.
Hoffy : Now we know what he got for the radio.
