Major Dundee (1965)

Karl Swenson: Captain Waller

Quotes 

• Maj. Amos Dundee : What are you trying to say, Frank? Come on, speak up. Spit it out.

  Capt. Frank Waller : I'm not trying to say the massacre was your fault. I am trying to say that you should recognize your transfer to this post was a disciplinary action, pure and simple... and if you try to fight your own war again - like you did at Gettysburg - they'll break you.

• Maj. Amos Dundee : Captain, give my regards to General Carleton.

  Capt. Frank Waller : I hope that you're to have that pleasure yourself within the next week, Major. If not - good luck.

• Capt. Frank Waller : [referring to Dundee's planned expedition]  I feel it's my responsibility to report to General Carleton what I believe to be an irresponsible and reckless action.

  Maj. Amos Dundee : Do your worst.

  Capt. Frank Waller : You could be shot for this, Amos.

  Maj. Amos Dundee : My executioners will have to stand *in line*.

• Capt. Frank Waller : Are you pursuing the Apache, Major, or a promotion?

  Maj. Amos Dundee : Whatever my reasons are, Frank, you'd better get down on your knees and pray to God I don't decide to take you with me.

• Maj. Amos Dundee : [Dundee and his men have brought back Tyreen and the escaped Confederates to the fort]  Well, Captain, I brought back your wandering boys. Now you tell me how they got loose.

  Capt. Frank Waller : They clubbed two guards and went over the wall. It should be pointed out, Major, that at the time of their escape, 134 men of this command were a half day's march from here, either digging graves or rotting in the sun, waiting to be buried.

  Maj. Amos Dundee : I want every prisoner that can walk on this parade ground in ten minutes - including those in irons.

• Capt. Frank Waller : Has it occurred to you, Major - that the Apache will undoubtedly enter Mexico for the winter? Mexico presently contains an army of 30,000 French soldiers.

• Capt. Frank Waller : I suppose you intend to strip this garrison.