Destination Tokyo (1943)

Cary Grant: Capt. Cassidy

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• Capt. Cassidy : There was a democratic movement in Japan after the last war. What happened?

  Reserve Officer Raymond : The leaders were assassinated.

  Andy - Executive Officer : Well, what about the people?

  Capt. Cassidy : They have no voice now. Starvation is the big stick, isn't it, Raymond?

  Reserve Officer Raymond : That's right, sir. The big wage is seven dollars a week. They have no unions, no free press... nothing.

  Capt. Cassidy : They do what they're told.

  Reserve Officer Raymond : I'm afraid most of them believe what they're told - like that "hero" who knifed your torpedo man. They've been sold a swindle, and they accept it.

  Andy - Executive Officer : But how can they support such big families on seven bucks a week?

  Reserve Officer Raymond : They don't. Daughters of the poor are often sold to factories, or... worse - when they're about 12.

  Capt. Cassidy : Females are useful there only to work or to have children. The Japs don't understand the love we have for our women. They don't even have a word for it in their language.

• Capt. Cassidy : I hear Japs are happy to die for their emperor. A lot of them are going to be made very happy.

• Capt. Cassidy : [Tom Adams has just been chided for mistaking a common seabird for an incoming bomber while he was on lookout watch; this forced the 'Copperfin' to make a needless emergency dive]  That's all right, son. I'd rather submerge for one hundred birds, than NOT submerge for one plane.

  Tommy Adams : [Relieved]  Thank you, sir.

• Capt. Cassidy : There's lots of Mikes dying right now. And a lot more Mikes will die. Until we wipe out a system that puts daggers in the hands of five-year-old children.

• Reserve Officer Raymond : [during a depth charge attack]  Captain, I'm no good.

  Capt. Cassidy : Why's that?

  Reserve Officer Raymond : I'm scared stiff.

  Capt. Cassidy : How do you think the rest of us feel?

  Reserve Officer Raymond : You're not scared. I've looked at your faces.

  Capt. Cassidy : I've looked at yours, too. It's the same as the others.

  Reserve Officer Raymond : You're scared?

  Capt. Cassidy : I'll say I am. And so is everybody else.

• Reserve Officer Raymond : [Just having come aboard the 'Copperfin']  Uh... How do I get below, sir? I... I've never been aboard a submarine before.

  Capt. Cassidy : [Slightly bemused, as he points to the only obvious entry into the submarine]  There's the hatch. It goes 'down.'

• Reserve Officer Raymond : How'd you happen to volunteer for the submarine service, Captain?

  Capt. Cassidy : [Coyly]  Well, when I was a kid, I used to get a kick outta' swimming underwater.

• Capt. Cassidy : [Holding up the fuse mechanism of the Japanese bomb that Adams just defused]  Got "Made in USA" stamped on it. The appeasers' "contribution" to the war effort.

  Capt. Cassidy : [Hands it to the cook]  Take it and stew it, Cookie.

• Capt. Cassidy : [the 'Copperfin' has just completed its long transit to just off the coast of Japan]  Attention all hands: We're lying off the Japanese mainland... Thought you'd like to know.

• Capt. Cassidy : [Attempting to sneak into heavily-guarded Tokyo harbor by concealing the sub under a warship overhead]  Can we hug the cruiser any closer?

  Sound Man : We're just about kissing her now, sir.

  Capt. Cassidy : [Ponders the situation for a second]  If we kiss her bottom, we get an "ash can" right down our neck.

• Capt. Cassidy : [the 'Copperfin' has torpedoed, but not yet sunk, a Japanese carrier]  Take her *under* the carrier - we'll finish the job with the sting from our tail.

• Capt. Cassidy : Christoforo Colombo! Here comes a flattop, with a destroyer screen.