The Fighting 69th (1940)

James Cagney: Jerry Plunkett

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Quotes 

• Jerry Plunkett : Now go tell the colonel he wants you.

• Jerry Plunkett : If they don't let us at those Boches pretty soon, I'll have to carve me up a top-sergeant!

  Terence 'Crepe-Hanger' Burke : Don't mind him sarge, he's his own worst enemy!

  Sergeant 'Big Mike' Wynn : Not while *I'm* alive, he ain't!

• Father Duffy : You know Jerry, you're getting yourself so "well-liked" in this army, that they'd rather machine gun *you* than the *Germans*! It was *bad enough* at Camp Mills, but instead in *improving* you've been getting *worse*!

  Jerry Plunkett : Aw, that's what *you* think!

  Father Duffy : No, that's what *everybody* thinks!

• Father Duffy : I don't believe I've met *you* yet...

  Jerry Plunkett : [thinks he is talking to a fellow recruit]  Oh, I've been around. Plunkett's my name; Jerry Plunkett. "Smilin' Jerry" they call me, on account of my disposition!

• [the recruits start fighting with each other] 

  Jerry Plunkett : Aw, the *saps*!

  Father Duffy : [worried]  Help me break it up, Jerry!

  Jerry Plunkett : [unaware that he is talking to an officer]  Not *me* pal; You don't get medals for *that* kinda fightin'!