Lifeboat (1944)
John Hodiak: John Kovac
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Quotes
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Connie Porter : [last lines, translating the German soldier's words] He said "Aren't you going to kill me?"
Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett : "Aren't you going to kill me?" What are you gonna do with people like that?
John Kovac : I dunno. I was thinking of Mrs Higley and her baby. And Gus.
Connie Porter : Well, maybe they can answer that.
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Gus Smith : A guy can't help being a German if he's born a German, can he?
John Kovac : [referring to Willie] Neither can a snake help being a rattlesnake if he's born a rattlesnake! That don't make him a nightingale! Get him out of here!
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John Kovac : [to Ritt] What do you know about a ship?
Connie Porter : Among other things, he just happens to own a shipyard, that's all.
John Kovac : Has he ever been in it?
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John Kovac : [after the young German sailor pulls a gun] The baby has a toy!
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John Kovac : As of now I'm skipper, and anybody who don't like it can get out and swim to Bermuda. What about that?
Gus Smith : I'll buy it.
Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett : Suits me. What about you, Miss?
Alice MacKenzie : I'm for it.
George 'Joe' Spencer : Yes, sir!
Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Well, if the rest agree.
Connie Porter : All right, Commissar, what's the course?
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[first lines]
[indistinct shouting]
John Kovac : Ahoy there!
[climbs into boat]
John Kovac : Lady, you certainly don't look like somebody that's just been shipwrecked.
Connie Porter : Man, I certainly feel like it.
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[while Kovac and Ritt are playing poker, Connie inspects the numerous tattoos on Kovac's chest and arms]
Connie Porter : What are those letters on your diaphragm?
John Kovac : Love letters.
Connie Porter : Oh, you believe in advertising.
John Kovac : Open.
Connie Porter : Never could understand this quaint habit of making a billboard out of one's torso.
Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Stay.
John Kovac : Three cards.
Connie Porter : I must say you've shown the most commendable delicacy in just tattooing the initial... not printing the names, addresses and telephone numbers.
John Kovac : Open.
Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Nines?
John Kovac : Queens.
Connie Porter : See, how many are there? One, two, three, four, five.
John Kovac : Remind me to show you the rest of them sometime.
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Connie Porter : [speaking of the disaster] Reminds me of an air raid once that hit me in Chunking.
John Kovac : Reminds me of a slaughterhouse I once worked in in Chicago. Those Nazi buzzards - a tin fish ain't enough. They've got to shell us too!
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Connie Porter : What part of the ship are you from, darling?
John Kovac : Engine Room. I was off duty in the Wash Room, thanks, caught with my - I was washing my hands when the torpedo snagged us.
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Gus Smith : [sees someone in the water with the hands on the side of the lifeboat] Hey, look. Another customer.
[lifeboat passengers pull him aboard]
Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Where did he come from?
Connie Porter : Is he a crew member?
John Kovac : I never saw him before.
George 'Joe' Spencer : Not off our boat.
Willy : [he speaks] Danke schoen.
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John Kovac : What do you say Joe?
George 'Joe' Spencer : [black steward speaks] Do I get to vote too?
Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Why, why certainly.
George 'Joe' Spencer : Guess I'd rather stay out of this.
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Connie Porter : Kovac, you know something about machinery, don't you?
John Kovac : I little.
Connie Porter : [shows him her bracelet] See if you can fix this clasp.
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Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Now children, let's keep our shirts on.
John Kovac : I haven't got a shirt. Or, a mink coat either.
Connie Porter : Oh, I get it. A fellow traveler. I thought the Comintern was dissolved.
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Connie Porter : Darling, you want to live, don't you?
Gus Smith : Not with one leg.
John Kovac : Don't be a sap, Gus.
Gus Smith : You don't understand.
John Kovac : Sure I do: Rosie.
Connie Porter : What's Rosie got to do with it?
Gus Smith : Everything. If I lose my leg, I lose Rosie.
Connie Porter : Of course, I don't know Rosie.
Gus Smith : She loves to dance. It's her hobby. It's her whole life. Put yourself in her place. Do you like to dance?
Connie Porter : Mad about it.
Gus Smith : Well, then, what's good a hep-cat with one gam missin'?
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Connie Porter : You're a low person, darling. Obviously, out of the gutter. Maybe that's why I'm attracted to you. Maybe that's why you're attracted to me.
John Kovac : Quit slumming.
Connie Porter : The funny part of it is, I'm from the same gutter.
