Marooned (1969)

James Franciscus: Clayton Stone

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Quotes 

• Clayton Stone : Jesus, fifty-five minutes... We'll be pretty cold by then.

  Buzz Lloyd : Well, one of us's gonna have to go. I mean uh... that's what we're talkin' about, isnt it? One of us goes and the... other two stay. What... what are we gonna do?

  Clayton Stone : Alright look. Let's do this scientifically: two big guys throw the little guy out, okay?

• Charles Keith : [attempting to contact the Apollo capsule, which has the call-sign "Ironman One"]  Ironman, this is Keith. Ironman, this is Keith! Do you read me?

  Clayton Stone : [He's disconnected his oxygen hose and transferred it to Buzz. Now breathing only cabin air, which is very thin, he's becoming delirious due to lack of oxygen, and starts to ramble]  Purpose... and objective...

  Charles Keith : [with more insistence]  Ironman One, this is Keith. Do you read!

  Clayton Stone : Purpose and objective.

  Charles Keith : Ironman, this is Keith. Do you read me?

  Clayton Stone : [starts to giggle]  Purpose... the acquisition of... of... data!

  Charles Keith : [sounding more impatient]  Ironman, do you read me?

  Clayton Stone : [starts looking out the cabin window, sees the silhouette of the Russian Voskhod capsule approaching]  No! Oh, God. Oh, God. How... beautiful.

  Clayton Stone : I'm beginning to see... visions...

  Charles Keith : Stoney, come in!

  Clayton Stone : ...of death. There you are...

• Clayton Stone : Tell me Jim, what did you see when the psychologist held up that blank sheet of paper?

  Jim Pruett : We didn't have all that jazz when I came in.

• Clayton Stone : We're gonna make it, Teresa.

  Teresa Stone : What?

  Clayton Stone : We're gonna make it back.

  Teresa Stone : What?

  Clayton Stone : We're gonna make it back.

  Teresa Stone : I know.

  Clayton Stone : Believe me!

  Teresa Stone : Yes.

  Clayton Stone : I mean it! We're all coming back.

• Buzz Lloyd : [after being asked by Stone what he saw when a psychologist held up a blank sheet of paper during his astronaut acceptance boards]  I saw a field covered with snow. And underneath was new oats. Then the snow melted and the field turned to green. But the psychologist said I was all wrong, it was just a blank sheet of paper.

  Clayton Stone : He took you anyway?

  Buzz Lloyd : Yeah, I guess they made a mistake.

  Clayton Stone : No, no, they don't make mistakes.

  Buzz Lloyd : That's right, I forgot. They don't make mistakes do they?

  [the entire crew begins to laugh at the irony] 

• Clayton Stone : Hey Buzz, you remember that psychologist at Brooks? The one with the blank sheet of paper?

  Buzz Lloyd : I don't remember.

  Clayton Stone : Sure, sure you remember. He held up a blank sheet of paper and said, "What do you see?"

  Buzz Lloyd : I don't remember.

  Jim Pruett : What'd you see?

  Clayton Stone : Who me? I saw a blank sheet of paper.

  Jim Pruett : No imagination.

  Clayton Stone : No, no! Devotion to truth.

  Jim Pruett : Why don't you take that PhD and shove it.

• Jim Pruett : What are you gonna do when you finish that? Drop it out the window in a bottle?

  Clayton Stone : No, I'm the scientist. I rely on the pilot to get me places.

  Jim Pruett : If we had more pilots up here we'd be out there doin' somethin'; instead of laying around here like a bunch of cripples.