Spring Parade (1940) User Reviews (18)

Durbin's at her prettiest in this charming tale and the film ought to be more available...

[Doylenf · 6/10 · 23 October 2009]

My only complaint is that the film itself needs a good restoration to bring out the award-nominated cinematography of SPRING PARADE--and a minor complaint is that DEANNA DURBIN should have had at least two more songs to sing. Otherwise, it's a complete delight.

Her catchiest number is "Waltzing On Clouds" which is reprised at the finale and used for the big ballroom scene. It's a sort of Cinderella story set in Vienna, about a naive country bumpkin who meets her Prince Charming (ROBERT CUMMINGS) who happens to be a drummer in the local band. He's also a musician and love develops when Deanna backs his musical aspirations in a most unusual way.

S.Z. SAKALL stands out as the local baker who employs Deanna in his shop. As in most Durbin films, a series of mishaps and mistaken identities run through the story, only to be patched up before the windup. HENRY STEPHENSON, REGINALD DENNY, SAMUEL S. HINDS, ANNE GWYNNE, FRANKLIN PANGBORN and others help keep the story bubbling along with pleasant performances.

Henry Koster gives a sparkling touch to all the musical moments and Deanna is in fine voice. Robert Cummings again displays comic finesse as he always does in light romantic comedies.

One of Durbin's best films from the early '40s and it should be available on DVD.

Seasonal Spring.

[morrison-dylan-fan · 6/10 · 15 July 2016]

2013:

With my dad being a big fan of actress Deanna Durbin,I took a look at her IMDb page,and found 2 titles which have never come out on DVD or Video.Tracking down It's a Date,I was surprised to discover that there appeared to be no sign of the movie anywhere at all.

2016:

Realizing that my dads birthday was about to come up,I decided to do one last attempt at tracking this obscure Durbin flick down.Stumbling onto the page of a DVD seller,I was delighted to finally find the title-with a bonus short!,which led to me getting ready to finally join the spring parade.

The plot:

Traveling to a Viennese fair, Ilonka Tolnay picks up a card which claims that a number of events will soon happen to her,which will include Tolnay meeting the love of her life,who is passionate about music. Laughing off the claims,Tolnay gets a job at a bakery. Whilst working at the bakery,Tolnay meets Corporal Harry Marten,who dreams of becoming a famous composer,but is banned by the army from doing so.Believing that she has met her dream guy,Tolnay decides to try and make Marten's dream come true.

View on the film:

Blocked by Universal from being seen again after Ernst Neubach sued them for not crediting him for his role in the making of the 1934 original Frühjahrsparade/Spring Parade.Despite featuring a limited amount of songs,the writers give the title a sweet whimsical spin,where Tolnay's attempts to have Marten's music heard has a sweet folk tale atmosphere. Whilst the poor print quality blocks director Henry Koster's candy coloured sets from sparkling, Deanna Durbin gives a terrific,jaunty performance as Tolnay,thanks to Durbin joyfully casting a fairy tale breeze over Tolnay,as Tolnay and Marten go on the spring parade.

One of the best Durbin films.

[SanDiego · 11 November 2001]

One of the few Deanna Durbin films, almost all shot in black-and-white, not available on commercial video as of this writing. That's a shame. Universal needs to finally release this film as well Deanna Durbin's HERS TO HOLD, the final chapter in her THREE SMART GIRLS trilogy. SPRING PARADE is a charming and delightfully dated fairy tale-like film and makes a great companion to classics such as Danny Kaye's HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, Shirley Temple's HEIDI as well as Sonje Henie's series of films.

Nice, enjoyable fluff about yesteryear..

[planktonrules · 6/10 · 7 July 2017]

If you're looking for a deep film or a picture that will make it to the Criterion Collection, well, you won't find it here or in any of Deanna Durbin's films. Instead, her films are nice...nice family films and "Spring Parade" is certainly nice.

When the story begins, Ilonka (Deanna Durbin) is at the fair and trying to sell her goat. Instead, she ends up singing and seeing a fortune telling bird...yes bird. And, although the fortune seems ridiculous, the pieces all fall together--beginning with her falling asleep in a pile of hay and the hay ending up in Vienna. This is the nice, idyllic Vienna of old...before WWI and the slaughter of millions. Illona has a bit of an adventure here and ultimately meets the man of her dreams AND the Emperor!

She sings, she's sweet and she wears lovely dresses. Fortunately, she also has some nice support from the likes of Cuddles Sakall and Henry Stevenson! Well worth seeing and a bit like a fairy tale.

Spring Parade

[CinemaSerf · 6/10 · 13 February 2023]

Deanna Durbin signs her heart out here as the Hungarian peasant "Ilonka". She's been told by a fortune teller that happiness is looming - and she reckons that might just have come true when she encounters "Harry" (Robert Cummings) - a drummer in the Imperial army. Meantime, though, he is fond of writing music, a skill prohibited in the military so she determines to somehow get his works in front of the Emperor (Henry Stephenson). Creatively, she takes to hiding them in the salt sticks that her boss the baker (S. Z. Sakall) makes daily for the court. That's quite a risky tactic as those who surround the throne worry that this could be a plot to poison their ruler and so the baker finds himself incarcerated, and "Ilonka" has to make a tough - and brave - decision. It's quite a charming mix of musical and romance this, with a bit of chemistry between Durbin and Cummings and with the scene-stealing Sakall and Stephenson also on good form guiding this gently evolving storyline towards it's inevitable and pleasing conclusion. "Waltzing on the Clouds" has the germ of an ear-worm to it - you might find yourself humming it long after the film has ended!

Deanna Durbin Gets Bob Cummings But Loses The Goat

[boblipton · 7/10 · 16 December 2019]

Deanna Durbin is a Hungarian peasant. Through the usual mx-ups common to musical comedies, she finds herself in Vienna and in love with Robert Cummings. When S.Z. Sakall, the baker whom she is staying with, is arrested for something Miss Durbin has done, she goes to see the Emperor, played by Henry Stephenson.

Producer Joseph Pasternak and director Henry Koster complete the trio of Hungarians involved in this Viennese operetta movie, with Franz Joseph portrayed as the benevolent deus ex machina he was so often shown as in this sort of fluff. In truth, he was an arch-conservative,his tyranny tempered by a sprawling and confusing welter of nationalities. Despite that anhistorical nonsense, this is a funny and charming bit of fluff. Miss Durbin was Universal's biggest star, and this movie was given full production values, with lots of talented performers, like Mischa Auer, Walter Catlett, Anne Gwynne, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Denny, and Franklin Pangborn. The songs are not from the top drawer, but Miss Durbin surely knows how to sell them.

Only a dedicated Durbin fan would bother with this waltzarama!

[fisherforrest · 6/10 · 19 November 2007]

Since I am a "Durbin freak", I do bother, but it's never much of a pleasure. The "spoiler" box is checked, but I am not sure there is anything to "spoil". Based apparently on one of those usual mittel-Europa authors' Vienna romances, this glitzy romantic comedy quickly becomes close to farce. Deanna is "Ilonka", a peasant girl from a small village far out in the boondocks, with the "hayseed" still literally sticking to her. A hawker at the village fair sells her a "fortune" which predicts she will marry an "artist" in Vienna, meet the Emperor, and other nonsense which "Ilonka" swallows whole. Arriving in Vienna almost by accident, she immediately starts rubbing her hayseed customs up against the sophistication of the city, with close to disastrous results in some cases, and situations the writers seem to have thought funny in others. Witness the scene in a ritzy Vienna café when "Ilonka" haggles with the waiter about the price of a serving of asparagus, and the waiter gives in! This kind of humour palls rather quickly. One could go on as "Ilonka" pursues her "fortune", but you get the idea. If this isn't enough for Deanna to deal with, there is the constant sabotage from those two most annoying brats of all cinema, sometimes known as "Butch and Buddy". This is something of a departure for Deanna, who tries valiantly against heavy odds, especially having to sing a succession of boring waltz songs! And contend with Bob Cummings boisterous performance at the same time.

One doesn't know how well this did at the box office when in general release, but since Universal never issued a VHS or DVD they must have written it off as a regrettable mistake. Not even in the UK, where the rest of the Durbin "canon" is available in PAL format, is a good VHS or DVD available. This is a shame, for the movie is beautifully and lovingly photographed despite its shortcomings.

Later was better

[sb-47-608737 · 6/10 · 13 April 2018]

This movie was remade by Ernst Marischka, the original story writer of this film, in 1955 with Romy Schneider as Die Deutschmeister. having seen both the movies, I found that, the second one was far superior to this, which is a rarity. Normally when the movies are re-made, the so-called superiority is attained by more glitz, and in the way, it weakens the plot. But not in this case. I like both the heroines, Deanna as well as Romy and incidentally they were almost the same age when their respective movies were made, Deanna must have been about 18 and Romy about 17. If I compare the two, Deanna was a bit superior, as far as this movie-pair is concerned, but Romy matured only after she stopped Sissy and similar movies. The other superiority of this movie is obviously the Deanna's singing (Probably, to overcome that, Marischka didn't make the other one Musical). And the male lead, Robert Cummins too (in my opinion) was better than Siegfried Breuer. But there it stops. The plot and the story was far superior and engrossing in the German movie, whereas this particular movie has too many loop-holes in the plot. If I leave alone the actors, who were American, Marischka and Pasternak were Austro-Hungarians, Koster was German, under this conditions the mistakes made seem quite surprising. Thankfully Marischka corrected them, and also changed the plot a bit, in the German movie. Probably due to these glaring errors, I could not really enjoy the movie despite Deanna and some very good songs. The role of Koster's future wife, Peggy Moran seems to be interesting. She is introduced as Archduchess, but definitely she wasn't one. Emperor's Aide, Wiedlemeyer should have contradicted at that point, after all, he might have missed Counts, Minor Princess' , some Duchess' but definitely not an Arch-duchess. In addition, her behavior, or even Marten's didn't fit the chair. Similar to this there are many other loop-holes, including the meeting with Emperor, where Deanna didn't really maintain the 'Awe' which would be natural, or later, the attempt to refuse Kaiser's invitation (which everyone should know is an Order in a disguise and are non-refuse-able). To summarise, watching once was a bit drag, but not too much of it, but it is not repeatable, the other one, being more coherent, is a far better watch.

Excellent Movie

[lostatseas · 10/10 · 15 June 2005]

It's a crying shame the studio never released this on video...I have seen this movie and it is easily one of Deanna's best! Durbin comes off with even more of her famous spunk and "atitude" that we all know and love. Her supporting cast is first rate and the songs really add color and warmth to the picture. Set in Vienna Austria,this is the only movie where the storyline is contained fully outside of the USA. It happens to be Deanna's shortest film but it is not lacking in the entertainment department as it will have you chuckling constantly especially the beginning of the movie where Deanna's character Ilonka tries to sell her goat!

Excellent Durbin Film with a Sad History

[rsstone · 10/10 · 18 December 2015]

Deanna Durbin sang with one of the most beautiful voices ever recorded. This film generously preserves some fine samples of that fact. But perhaps the prospective viewer should know that its story line is much simpler than film stories today where intricate plot twists and violent thrills are expected. Director Henry Koster crafted a sweet comedy about a superstitious, but strong-minded country girl who is fated to meet a self-centered, but talented, corporal who tries to act like a big shot. Henry Koster proves his craftsmanship in his ability to knit together so simple a story and make it interesting and even, in places, arresting. Durbin plays a Hungarian peasant from Szilagy-Somlyo. (It's fun to hear her say it! It happened to be producer Joe Pasternak's childhood home town. Also, how amusing it is to see Durbin, an "All-American Girl," dressed up rather like Eva Braun! Durbin is so beautiful that it does not matter.) The title SPRING PARADE makes no sense to the story line, and that is a clue to understanding the larger, but sad, history of this film. The truth is that the film was first made by Pasternak in 1934, when he produced movies for Universal Studios in Austria and Hungary. Today the first film is identified by either of two names, FRÜHLINGSPARADE or FRÜHJAHRSPARADE, which mean "spring's parade." It tells a probably somewhat fictionalized story of the composition of a famous Austrian military march, the "Deutschmeister Regiments Marsch" by Wilhelm August Jurek in 1893. In the story Jurek is inspired by the rhythmic tapping of his girlfriend in an open-air Viennese restaurant. The climax of the story comes at the end of the film when Emperor Francis Joseph I praises the march while reviewing his troops. Jurek's regiment plays it while passing by. The title SPRING PARADE in that context makes sense. In the Durbin version, the march is replaced by the composition of a waltz. In 1934, Hitler had been chancellor only a year, and a story about a popular march from 1893 was unexceptional. By 1940, however, a movie about a rousing German march would be exceptional. The year 1893 gives the viewer of SPRING PARADE a peg to hang the story on. Now we know that it comes after the assassination of the Empress Elisabeth (Sisi). It adds poignancy to the scenes of the lonely emperor in his royal apartments. In the 1934 film, Joe Pasternak made a big mistake. The screen credits attributed the story to Ernst Marischka, but, in fact, Marischka wrote the screen play from an original story by Ernst Neubach, who was not credited. After World War II, Neubach settled in France. In 1949, he sued Universal Studios for violation of his copyright, and won. Universal Studios lost all rights to, what was for them, a most cherished film. And it disappeared from the public square. No studio-made VHS, DVD, or Blu-Ray disc has ever appeared. One can reasonably wonder about its current status as a property. Has it passed into the public domain? In 1955, FRÜHJAHRSPARADE was remade in color by Ernst Marischka with the title DIE DEUTSCHMEISTER, starring a young Romy Schneider. Wouldn't it be nice if, say, a manufacturer like the Criterion Collection would release a three-film set with FRÜHLINGSPARADE/FRÜHJAHRSPARADE (1934), SPRING PARADE (1940), and DIE DEUTSCHMEISTER (1955), all restored with extras like sections, subtitles, and commentary? Detailed information about SPRING PARADE can be downloaded in PDF format from the academic journal Modern Austrian Literature, Volume 32, Number 3 (or 4), 1999, Special Issue: Austria in Film. The paper is "Spring Parade (1940): Imperial Austria Lives Again (at Universal)," by Jan-Christopher Horak, pp. 74-86. The Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center of the U. S. National Archives at Culpeper, Virginia, owns a copy of SPRING PARADE, and they have given it at least three public showings. It is probably a clean positive without breaks. The music of SPRING PARADE is significant, with a fine march, two waltzes, and a comic song by Prof. Robert Stolz from 1934. The talented Gus Kahn contributed new lyrics to the music that Durbin sings. Charles Previn of Universal added his own march, which is very fine and needs to be heard today. Finally, Mr. Kahn wrote lyrics to Hans J. Salter's "Blue Danube Dream," which re-works the "Blue Danube Waltz." Durbin's performance of this is magnificent. Just on the music alone this film has cultural significance. It and its sister films should be conserved, restored, and seen again as they were meant to be seen.

There's a good reason it's not on home video

[reelguy2 · 3/10 · 5 January 2004]

Despite some of Durbin's best songs and technical proficiency all the way around, this is a major disappointment for a Durbin fan who adores every film the musical star made up to 1940. It's BORING - poorly paced and dogged by a weak story line. (I was privileged to see a superior transfer, so I attribute my lack of enjoyment to the film itself.) Romance is given short shrift, with leading man Robert Cummings showing up very late in the film.

Not as bad as Up in Central Park, which Universal Home Video somehow did release, but not a film one should be praying to see released on home video.

Purest Enjoyment Available In Cinema!

[krtqaa · 10/10 · 13 July 2010]

Thought I reviewed this the other day, but apparently, that never posted. This is probably Deanna Durbin's best effort. She is most natural in the role; one suspects that the director brought out the closest expression of the real girl, here. It gains further power from the remarkable performances of a strong supporting cast. For example, the Baker--played by a well known supporting figure in movies over a couple of decades, also seems most natural here, compared to any other role, in which this reviewer has seen him. His story nephews, here, are far more natural, far better developed than they were in a W.C. Fields movie released in the same era. So too, are other familiar performers from the same era. Was Deanna, the Director, or a combination, the spark that brought out the best in almost everyone? Who can say. But the movie, on a modest budget, perhaps, communicates real joy to the viewer--real cinema magic, that has held up for me from the time I saw it first (seven times) at age 6 1/2 and 7, till I bought DVD's for myself and some other members of my family, within the past year.

It was my favorite movie in 1941. Viewed again, frequently, over the past seven months, it remains my favorite movie. (And that despite the fact that I am usually not that great a fan of musicals!)

This is a good movie but transfer needed a better source

[pvideo-2 · 8/10 · 25 May 2006]

I purchased a VHS copy from Movies Unlimited that was in new condition. The tape however had some flaws, possibly related to the source material. It looked like there was a few seconds missing between a couple of reel changes and a dropout possibly due to missing material or a bad master. It's difficult to tell. The footage/sound was also distorted at times for some of the songs, which could be due to my tracking on my VCR. I had to set the tracking manually to get the best picture and my VCR won't go to auto track once a manual setting is set. My parents have a cheaper VCR and played the tape with auto tracking. The tape had a bit of fuzz near the bottom of it but the audio may have been a little better with worse video. The transfer was produced by some small company with "Hollywood" in their name. It was better than not having access to the title. Of course I wished for better footage.

As far as the theme and subject of the movie, this movie is almost in the same vein as the original Good Fairy, in that the actress in both films is playing a country girl with little experience going to the big city. This in a sense is a type of variation in the Good Fairy theme with different typical Deanna Durbin musical twists. If your a fan of Deanna Durbin films you'll find this has all the typical things that happen in one of her musicals. When there's a problem, she'll usually end up singing her way out of them. In this case there are a few minor plot differences and twists that aren't in a typical Deana film, yet enough of the same types of things that a fan will feel at home in watching this movie. This movie might rate as one of the top 5 or 6 of her films. And I give it a high rating, SK "skuddles" is in a typical role as well. I think other criticisms of this film are to harse. I think this is a fine light Deanna Durbin film with enough quality to make it rate highly in a film you should watch if your a fan of her movies. The only problem is the transfer and copy that's available. I own a nonlinear editing system and wonder about the chance of finding a 16mm copy of this and maybe actually making an attempt at a transfer and edit into the other copy giving me a better master for my own home use. I almost feel like going after this as a personal restoration project, but I'm afraid there isn't decent source material to be found and think that the one out there is probably/unfortunately the best source available.

These kinds of things happen. Of course you have to rate this within a mindset of when it was produced and the type of movie it is. This is from a different era and to a large extent based on themes in Deanna's other copy of "The Good Fairy" movie theme, mixed in with a little bit of "the shop around the corner". It's a good theme mix. In some ways it's almost a perfect composite of other Deanna and other classic films, because it has so much other little things put in. Having so many little things in it, makes the film appear and actually looser in it's script, it's not as tight a script, but it can't be because it's more of a mix of other film themes all thrown in together. But even with it's loose plot it fits together pretty well.

I've put in my opinion without putting in enough to create a spoiler. I think it's worth watching and owning. If it came out from a good copy of 35mm inter-positive, wow I'd be really happy. I don't know if I can find better audio from her "audio" CD recordings that might be edited into a working dub, but I'm tempted to look.

Why do I watch these films. Well I put them together for my mom mostly. She likes light musicals with good singing and many of Deana Durbin films fit that bill very well. This film rates up there just below her best films in my opinion. There are 21 of her films out there. Many can only be had if you buy the PAL UK version of the DVD collection and do your own conversion to NTSC using a DVD player that can play Europeon PAL and trans-code it back to the USA standard. Some of the PAL titles have distorted sound as well, probably because the loss of decent film source copies of the movies. Truly a tragedy. Thank God for folks like Keno who try to restore and offer rare films before they are completely gone.

Also one more correction. Deanna Durbin films being Black and White are not "rare", all of her films were "black and white" except one. This is due to her high popularity and the studio had to cut corners to afford to have her in the film, so they cut by not shooting in color for all of her films, except one.

If your looking for an awesome older musical with charm, check out some of her movies. Totally family friendly with some great film moments in many of them.

The title explained

[richard-1787 · 4/10 · 4 February 2016]

This is a disappointing movie, even if you like Deanna Durbin, which I do.

Two men are credited with writing the script, and that amazes me. The plot meanders from one embarrassing non-situation to the next. The director, Henry Koster, made some very fine movies, such as Harvey. Why he filmed this script in this shape I don't know.

Several previous reviewers have wondered about the title, which makes no sense here. The music, and so perhaps - but I emphasize *perhaps* - the plot come from a musical by Robert Stolz called *Spring Parade*. It has some good music in it. Why Universal took just three songs and then repeated them over and over I don't know.

If you've seen *The Great Waltz*, MGM's lavish movie from two years before (1938), the big scenes in this will look pretty weak.

Suspend all Viennese disbelief!

[ilprofessore-1 · 8/10 · 31 December 2019]

This charming film, directed expertly in 1940 by the underrated European-born Henry Koster, is set in a fictional Vienna of beer gardens and palaces, all built on the Universal lot in California. The story, of course, is totally preposterous: for one, a peasant girl from the mountains (Deanna Durbin) after only been in the capitol city a few days is granted an audience with Emperor Franz Josef (Henry Stephenson). Thoroughly charmed by her simple country ways, the old man grants Deanna all her wishes, and, of course, invites her to a royal ball where, needless to say, she sings and dances. It is a tribute to Koster's skill at expertly recreating this sort of operetta fluff, once so popular in Europe, that he makes us suspend all disbelief. Durbin, then 19 years old, is both lovely and feisty, and she is surrounded in this Cinderella story by some of the best comic character actors in town including Misha Auer, Cuddles Sakall, Walter Catlett, and Franklin Pangborn. Prissy Pangborn gets to wear a Hapsburg beard and moustache. In memory, he was usually photographed standing up in a state of rage or suppressed frustration, but in this film he is shown sitting down. A first? Robert Cummings is the suitable dreamboat love interest and he does a commendable job of making this silliness believable. Joe Valentine deservedly won the Oscar that year for his black and white photography.

Do you believe in magic? The magic of fate!

[MyMovieTVRomance · 8/10 · 27 July 2022]

A movie about how destiny will follow you if you just go with the flow and live with awareness. But in any case, this is a movie with thee very comforting message that what's meant to be will be, and for that, I love it tremendously!

This movie shows the magical grand-design of life.

Bonus points with the waltz in the clouds song sounding like in came right out of a Disney fairytale!

Delightful musical comedy set in old Vienna

[SimonJack · 8/10 · 1 February 2023]

This is a delightful musical comedy set in the 19th century Austrian Alps and Vienna. It's one of the series that starred Universal's young singer, Deanna Durbin. She is Ilonka Tolnay, a lass on her way to a village carnival to sell a goat. After having her future picked out by a raven, she meets a prospective buyer and then does a cultural fast dance on a wager with him. Afterward, exhausted, she plops down on a hay wagon and falls asleep. When she awakens, a few hours later, It's evening and the owner of the wagon tells her they are approaching Vienna. Well, since her fortune predicted she would meet and fall in love with an artist in Vienna, she decides to take the man up on his offer to stay at his bakery and work for him.

In short order, her artist turns out to be a bass drummer in a military parade band that passes by the bakery each day. He has some problems with his officers because he's always composing new tunes, which interfered with his duties. The baker has been the supplier of the special salt cakes for the emperor. One comical situation after another brings the couple together. She goes before he emperor, and the baker is chosen the official baker of the emperor. But, this is after some scares and the arrest of the baker - all due to the mishaps and foibles of the young lass. And, this is a musical, so songs are part of the plot.

It's a fun story and film that co-stars Robert Montgomery as Corporal Harry Marten, and has a fop cast of supporting comedy actors of the day. S. Z. Sakall is the baker, Latislav Teschek, Mischa Auer is Gustav, Walter Catlett is the Headwaiter, Reginald Denny is The Major, and Henry Stephenson is Emperor Franz Joseph. Of course, Durbin's beautiful voice and singing alone make this a movie worth watching.

The film opens with Durbin and her goat in tow. She is walking barefoot and carrying her boots, while singing a funny song, in which "snails go whizzing by." She haggles with a fortune hawker who has a raven that picks a card out with a person's fortune written on it. Her fortune reads,, "Your future lies in the city of Vienna. Your husband will be an artist. Your friend in need will be a great and powerful man. But be careful, your love will hit you with a stick." Each of these pieces comes about with humor.

Latislav has two young boy nephews staying with him and working for him. When he and Ilonka arrive at his bakery, the two boys have been singing and dancing, and Latislav chastises them. The first one says, "We were working, uncle." The second adds, "We only weren't working when you were watching us."

This movie received four academy award nominations, for music and camera work. The DVD I saw had a poor quality. But this is film that anyone who enjoys musicals and comedies should enjoy. Here are a couple favorite lines from this film.

The Major, to Cummings' character, "Come here, Corporal Marten. How long have you been in this army?" Corporal Marten, looking a clock on the wall, "One yar, eight months, 17 days, six hours, and 32 minutes, sir." Spoken like a true solder who want wait to get out.

Latislav, to Ilonka, "Watch Jenny. Watch the customers Be a regular watchdog."