Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

Dick Hogan: Cadet Ezra Parker

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• Lt. Joe Rossi : These nights are killers, aren't they?

  Cadet Robert Parker : Yeah, I lie in my bunk with my clothes on and try to sleep, but every time that engine slows, my heart speeds up. In time, I think I can train myself to have an iron nerve, like you have.

  Lt. Joe Rossi : Yeah, let me tell you something about my "iron nerve," son. It's made of rubber just like everybody else's, so it'll stretch when you need it. People got a funny idea that being brave is not being scared. I don't know, I always figured, you weren't scared, there's nothing to be brave about. The trick is, how much scaring can you take? I got an idea you can take plenty.

• Whitey Lara : [at Parker, who is about to close the door to the galley]  Leave it open, sweetheart. When I got it off Hatteras, six guys was caught in the fo'c'sle 'cause the door buckled, and they couldn't bust her loose.

  Cadet Robert Parker : Sorry.