Stalag 17 (1953)

Don Taylor: Lt. James Dunbar

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Quotes 

• [after Sefton cuts through the barbed wire to let them escape] 

  Sefton : Let's blow, Chauncey.

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : Let's.

• Oberst Von Scherbach : I'm grateful for a little company. I suffer from insomia.

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : Did you ever try 40 sleeping pills?

• Sgt. Schulz : How do you expect to win the war with an army of clowns?

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : We sort of hope you'd laugh yourselves to death.

• Geneva man : I want to talk about Lieutenant Dunbar. Is this Lieutenant Dunbar?

  Oberst Von Scherbach : It is.

  Geneva man : What exactly is he charged with?

  Oberst Von Scherbach : Whatever it is, it's out of your jurisdiction. This man is not a prisoner of war. Not anymore. He's a saboteur.

  Geneva man : He's a prisoner of war until you can prove sabotage.

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : I didn't do it. I was in the Frankfurt station and the train was three miles away when it blew up.

  Oberst Von Scherbach : Come now, you threw a time bomb.

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : How could I have had a time bomb? They searched me when they took me prisoner.

  Geneva man : And the way you search your prisoners, it does sound rather unlikely.

  Oberst Von Scherbach : All I know is he did it. I am satisfied.

  Geneva man : I am not. According to the Geneva Convention, this man...

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : Is there anything in the Geneva Convention that'll let a guy sleep?

  [he stumbles over to von Scherbach's couch and falls asleep] 

  Oberst Von Scherbach : You were saying?

  Geneva man : Simply this. After the hostilities are ended, there will be such a thing as a War Crimes Commission. If the man should be convicted without proper proof, you will be held responsible, Oberst von Scherbach.

  Oberst Von Scherbach : Interesting.

  Geneva man : Isn't it?

  Oberst Von Scherbach : Very well. If you insist on details, I have ways of finding out about that blasted time bomb. Good day, sir. You will forgive me for receiving you like this.

  Geneva man : Perfectly all right. I do not like boots.

• Sefton : Lieutenant Dunbar?

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : Yeah.

  Sefton : It wouldn't be James Skylar Dunbar from Boston?

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : Yes, it sure would. Do we know each other?

  Animal : Oh, he's from Boston, too, but you wouldn't know him. Not unless you had your house robbed.

  Sefton : Maybe he would. We were gonna be officers together, remember? Only they washed me out. Glad to see you made it. Of course, it couldn't be that all of that dough behind you had something to do with it. His mother's got $20 million.

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : 25.

  Sefton : They've got a summer home in Nantucket with an upstairs polo field. Better put a canopy over his bunk.

  Hoffy : Lay off, Sefton.

  Sefton : Say, with all your mother's pull, how come you're not a chicken colonel by now?

  Hoffy : Lay off, I said, unless you want your head handed to you.

• Sefton : Shut off the moaning or you'll have the machine guns on us. Shut it off, Lieutenant.

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : My legs are frozen.

  Sefton : You'd better get that blue blood circulating, 'cause we're busting out of this stink hole in exactly one minute and 20 seconds.

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : Sefton.

  Sefton : What'd you expect, a St. Bernard dog?

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : Not you.

  Sefton : Want some brandy?

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : Yeah.

  Sefton : Who doesn't? Suppose we wait until we hit the Waldorf-Astoria?

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : Okay. It's on me.

  Sefton : You won't get off that cheap.

• Animal : [opening Sefton's foot locker]  Of all the hoarding cruds.

  Hoffy : It looks like Macy's basement, don't it?

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : That kid's richer than my mother.

  Shapiro : [as he picks up a cuckoo clock, the bird pops out and "chirps"]  Ah, shut up!