Lifeline to Victory (1993 TV Movie)

Simon Reynolds: Mac McNaughton

Quotes 

• [Mac has been winning steadily at craps] 

  Mac McNaughton : Shoot the fins, Canelli. They're singing my song tonight.

  Canelli : Every bloody night.

• Paul Devereaux : Why would someone like you join the Navy?

  Mac McNaughton : Oh, the uniform, sir. The babes *love it*.

  Paul Devereaux : Is that all?

  Mac McNaughton : [with extreme sarcasm]  Oh, and of course to safeguard the convoys carrying vital supplies to Britain's island stronghold, sir.

  Paul Devereaux : Believe it or not, MacNaughton, that's why most of us *are* here.

• [Mac has been caught gambling and has been forced to hand over his crooked dice] 

  Paul Devereaux : [rolls the rigged dice]  Seven... a winner. And again. Shoot the fins boys, they're singing my song tonight.

  [Coxswain smiles] 

  Paul Devereaux : And again. Now we back off, and use the straight pair. Don't we?

  Mac McNaughton : [Contrite]  Yes, sir.

  Paul Devereaux : [rolls the regular dice]  Ahhh, crap three. A loser.

• [HMCC Fireweed is being given a wooden "deck gun"] 

  Morrison : Cox'n, it's wood.

  Petty Officer Lang (Coxswain) : Solid Canadian pine.

  Morrison : How are we supposed to fight the Germans with that?

  Mac McNaughton : Yeah, what are we supposed to do? Beat them over the head with it?

  Petty Officer Lang (Coxswain) : [to MacNaughton]  NO! We're *supposed* to use our depth charges. But if that doesn't work, THEN, we *beat them over the head with it*!

  Petty Officer Lang (Coxswain) : [to all the sailors]  Now *MOVE!*