Southern Comfort (1981)

Alan Autry: Bowden

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• Simms : Hey Spencer. What about company command? They should be wondering about us, don't you think?

  Spencer : No. Not yet.

  Simms : We've been out of contact for 12 hours.

  Cpl. 'Coach' Bowden : He's right. They should be looking for us by now.

  Spencer : No way. National Guard, remember. We were supposed to meet the trucks 20 minutes ago. Another hour and a half the trucks will actually show up. Two o'clock they'll start asking around if anyone's seen us. At three they'll start checking the bars. At four they'll really get steamed. At five it will occur to someone that maybe we got lost. At six the captain will consider calling battalion; at seven thirty he will.Battalion will tell him it's too late; there's nothing anyone can do till morning.

• Cpl. 'Coach' Bowden : Well, I do what I do.

• Cpl. 'Coach' Bowden : Caspar! Comes a time when you have to abandon principles and do what's right.

• Spencer : And what'd you paint the cross on your chest for?

  Cpl. 'Coach' Bowden : That's part of the joke.

  Spencer : What joke?

  Cpl. 'Coach' Bowden : It's a corporal joke, private.

  Sgt. Casper : Oh what the hell Bowden, you dumb son of a bitch, you just blew up all the supplies we captured, all the guns, the ammo, the food...