Sons o' Guns (1936)

Joe E. Brown: Jimmy Canfield

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Quotes 

• General Harper : Well, its in deed a pleasure to see you in a uniform.

  Jimmy Canfield : And its a pleasure to see you here, sir. With you here I know we can't be anywheres near the fight.

• Lieut. Burton : Hey, you. Get back in the line there. What do you think you're doin'?

  Jimmy Canfield : I'm not a soldier. I'm not in the Army. I just...

  Lieut. Burton : You're in the Army now! Get in there.

• Jimmy Canfield : I wash clean; but, I dry dirty.

• Bernice Pearce : This is wonderful. A real soldier!

  Jimmy Canfield : A soldier? Why, honey, I'm a one man Army. I'm going over there and fight for flag and country! Thank you Hobson. I'm gonna fight for mothers and sweethearts. For the wives and kiddies. For anybody's kiddies! I wanna be in the middle of it. I wanna be where the shells are the thickest and fighting is the toughest. I wanna be fighting side-by-side by my pals. Side-by-side with my old friends!

• Jimmy Canfield : [to Hobson, not realizing Bernice has entered his room]  That's swell, but don't be so realistic. You'll wear yourself out. Stop. Wait minute. Stop. Now, we'll run through it once more and by that time the dame ought to be here.

  Bernice Pearce : The dame *is* here.

• Yvonne : [singing]  You have slept in the mud

  Jimmy Canfield : I've peeled many a spud, For a buck and a quarter a day

  Yvonne : When you've conquered the foe, You'll be my gigolo

  Jimmy Canfield : And a buck and quarter a day

  Yvonne : You have offered to France, Your body and soul

  Jimmy Canfield : But my heart to the old U.S.A...

• Yvonne : You know something? You have funny face.

  Jimmy Canfield : No?

  Yvonne : Your mouth - she is too big. Your eye - he is too small. Your ear - she is too wide. But, you know something? I like you.

• Jimmy Canfield : I'm broadminded; but, this fella went too far.

• Yvonne : [singing]  You came over to France, Just to fight and romance

  Jimmy Canfield : For a buck and a quarter a day

  Yvonne : You're repaying the debt, That you owe Lafayette!

  Jimmy Canfield : At a buck and a quarter a day

  Yvonne : You have lived in a trench, You have struggled with French

  Jimmy Canfield : But I can't seem to parlez Français!

  Yvonne : But you do very well, with the mademoiselle

  Jimmy Canfield : On a buck and quarter a day...

• Jimmy Canfield : Hey, what's the matter with this guy? Your father ought to do something about that high blood pressure of his.

  Yvonne : He is not my father. Pierre is my step father.

  Jimmy Canfield : Oh, yeah? Well, just because he's your step father don't give him any right to step all over you.

• Jimmy Canfield : Do you play?

  Yvonne : No. Do you play?

  Jimmy Canfield : No. Play? Say, when I was a year old I played with my toes.

• Jimmy Canfield : Please don't touch it.

• Jimmy Canfield : How do you sleep?

  Yvonne : With my eyes shut.

• Jimmy Canfield : Look. You can still see your outline. Look, here's where you head was on your pillow. And that dent is where your shoulders where.

  [looking lower on the empty bed] 

  Jimmy Canfield : And - that's a nice dent too.