James Gregory credited as playing...
Commander C.R. Ritchie
- Webb: You might as well face it, Commander. The 109's gone.
- Cmdr. C.R. Ritchie: Just a minute, you! You think I worry too much about those boats, don't you? No, but that's what you're thinking, and so are a lot of other people around here. Well, let me tell you something, mister - I worry about those boats, yes, and for one reason. Those boats have a deck on them, and men stand on those decks. That's why I won't give up the 109. She had men on her deck. I don't want the deck back, I want the men that were standing on it! That's the only thing that matters in this whole big hairy world! And don't you give me any of your smart-mouth again!
- Charles 'Bucky' Harris: Good afternoon, sir. Crew's compartment ready for inspection. Harris, Gunner's Mate Second, standing by.
- Cmdr. C.R. Ritchie: Good afternoon.
- [He looks around, and then opens one of the lockers. On the inside of the door is a picture of a luscious pin-up girl]
- Cmdr. C.R. Ritchie: Somebody's kid sister?
- Charles 'Bucky' Harris: Sorry, sir.
- Lt. John F. Kennedy: He's very sorry, sir.
- Cmdr. C.R. Ritchie: Oh, no, no. Don't apologize... the most seaworthy thing I've seen on this boat.
- Commander C.R. Ritchie: [shouting at his yeoman] Schnibbe! This thing is full of strikeovers again, I could chain up a monkey in the basement to get better results! Try using your elbows.
- [to Kennedy]
- Commander C.R. Ritchie: Come in. Come in, sit down. Ah, it's not like the old Navy. In the old days, you could eat off the deck. I mean it, you could eat off the deck.
- Lt. (J.G.) John F. Kennedy: Yes, sir, they told us that at Melville.
- Commander C.R. Ritchie: Now these kids, you see, these hottentots? They take the boats out, they bounce them around like yo-yos, they... Where?
- Lt. (J.G.) John F. Kennedy: Melville.
- Commander C.R. Ritchie: Mr. Kennedy, I don't care where you've been. I don't want to know anything about you. I don't care if you've got a mother, a father - an orphan child. You just run a taut ship and hang onto Navy regulations. If you do, you'll find me a friendly man, a damn friendly man. If you don't, you...
- [sits back and shouts at his yeoman]
- Commander C.R. Ritchie: Schnibbe, where's that memo? I'm going to chain up that monkey!