Anzio (1968)

Robert Mitchum: Dick Ennis (war correspondent, International Press)

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• Dick Ennis : [attending to Rabinoff who went into sudden convulsions]  Look, fellows, I think he can use the air more then the company, okay? Anything anybody can do?

  Cpl. Jack Rabinoff : No, unless you have a band-aid.

  Dick Ennis : Very funny.

  Cpl. Jack Rabinoff : Oh, it's murder. The stomach, you see? A Japanese grenade ripped my insides. Got medal in there. Under tension it contracts and all hell breaks loose. I must have been tense.

  Dick Ennis : Good thinking. You belong in a hospital, not in a war.

  Cpl. Jack Rabinoff : Yeah, that's what they said when they sent me home.

  Dick Ennis : You mean you got out, then you went to Canada and joined this outfit?

  Cpl. Jack Rabinoff : That's right.

  Dick Ennis : How did you get past the doctors?

  Cpl. Jack Rabinoff : Lied about my age.

  Dick Ennis : You gotta be crazy. Half your guts blown out and you're back here. What for?

  Cpl. Jack Rabinoff : Awkward time for a interview.

  Dick Ennis : You got something better to do? Why did you re-enlist?

  Cpl. Jack Rabinoff : Why? Because I like it, you know. I missed it, Ennis. With all the mud and pain, these clowns giving orders, there's nothing like it. Look, a guy sells shoes for 40 years. I live more in one day, I see more and feel more. I taste more, I think more. I'm more, understand? I'm more. There's more to living than breathing. Capisce?

  Dick Ennis : Capisce.

  Cpl. Jack Rabinoff : You're the same way, that's right. War is part of you. You belong to it and when this one's over, you'll find another and I hope I'm with you.

• Dick Ennis : [talking on the radio intercom]  Hello beachhead. this is Dick Ennis.I'm somewhere in the Alban Hills with the survivors. Sorry to take you away from the gaming table general, but I thought you should know you lost a couple pins off your chart. 1st and 2nd Rangers battalions have been wiped out. Did you read that? Of 767 men, there are 7 survivors left to see the result of one more royal foul-up. but this one's unique. This didn't happen because a general was too reckless. But because a general was too cautious! How about that? An entire outfit wiped out because the general was timid. I know it rarely happens that way general, but it sure as hell happened here. A timid general. He walked them into a park and left them in a graveyard.

• Pvt. Movie : An ad, and ad. I'll take out an ad that describes her. Really describes her.

  [cups both hands in front of his chest] 

  Dick Ennis : It'll never work Movie.

  Pvt. Movie : Why?

  Dick Ennis : [simulates Movie's gesture]  Must be a thousand girls in Rome with hands like that.

• Dick Ennis : [referring to a radio that went dead]  Ain't that a bitch? A dumb, dirty stupid useless bitch!