The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)

Robert Mitchum: Archie Hall

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• Archie Hall : ...The point I'm trying to make is about the handicap I'm under in my relation to girls.

  Cindy Hamilton : What handicap?

  Archie Hall : My natural honesty, my basic decency, my over-developed sense of what is right and what's wrong.

  Cindy Hamilton : I could see where those things would be a handicap. I mean, even if you can't lie to a girl... even just a little?

  Archie Hall : ...What were we talking about?

  Cindy Hamilton : Will I see you tomorrow?

  Archie Hall : Well, of course, like any soldier, I have my duties to perform.

  Cindy Hamilton : Shall I pick you up here or in town?

  Archie Hall : Here, if you don't mind. That bus ride into town is strictly for the rookies.

• William 'Bill' Bowers : No luck huh?

  Archie Hall : Oh this goes way, way beyond luck, buddy. I think we may have finally reached the point where we're operating in the realm of the supernatural.

• Pvt. Russell Drexler : And maybe you haven't given any thought to how much you are a sitting duck in one of those things.

  Archie Hall : Aw, now, what is a sitting duck but a duck that just happens to be sitting?

  Pvt. Sam Beacham : [Sarcastically]  "What is a DEAD duck but a duck that just happens to be DEAD?"

• Archie Hall : Were you as shocked as I was about the fuss all those guys put up about us getting passes?

  William 'Bill' Bowers : It wasn't that so much as it was that we were the only two in our barracks not on that KP list. Several of them were muttering something about "those two no-good duty sergeant-bribing gold-bricks who better not show their faces around there again."

  Archie Hall : Well, what makes them think it's such a treat for US to show THEM our faces?

• Archie Hall : [Opening a door in her face]  Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Willoughby. Did I hurt you?

  Miss Willoughby : ...Yes, you did.

• Peggy Kramer : Why didn't you call Cindy, Arch? You weren't too nice to her this afternoon.

  Archie Hall : That's funny; I didn't think she was being very nice to me.

  Peggy Kramer : C'mon, now. She's been out with you every night for weeks, and just because she had something she had to do one night...

  William 'Bill' Bowers : WHAT did she have to do?

  Peggy Kramer : [Oriental music softly in the background]  She had to meet with some other Japanese spies to complete their plans for blowing up the Grand Canyon, Bill.