The Dawn Patrol (1938)

Basil Rathbone: Major Brand

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Quotes 

• Maj. Brand : You know what this place is? It's a slaughterhouse, and I'm the butcher!

• Phipps : [Whimsically after reading a letter from home]  You know, Brand, it'd be awfully nice if we had a dog around here in the mornings to come in and cheer us up.

  Phipps : [Whistling and talking to an imagined dog]  Here! Come on, fella! Come on here! Mind your muddy feet. Come on!

  Maj. Brand : [Brand has been deep in thought and only now realizes Phipps is talking]  What you doing?

  Phipps : Uh, the dog.

  Maj. Brand : Dog? What dog? Where?

  Phipps : No, I say it would be nice if we had a dog to come in here in the mornings to sort of cheer us up, you know? And...

  [He mutters as he realizes Brand has not been listening to him] 

  Phipps : [He kisses the letter]  I thought it would be sort of cozy, you know.

  Maj. Brand : [Brand eventually realizes what Phipps has been saying and he smiles faintly] 

• Maj. Brand : [Brand approaches a sulking Courtney]  To him!

  Capt. Courtney : [Courtney initially shows resentment but smiles when he realizes what he's drinking to]  I'll drink to that. To Scott-O! Sleep tight.