Favorite scene: Has to be when Mr Roberts salutes the palm tree and tosses it overboard into the ocean.
Favorite line:
Hey, Lindstrom, what's the old man doing?
He's sitting in a chair leaning way foreward.
What's the Doc doing?
Doc's holding a wastebasket.
What wastebasket?
The one the old man's got his head in ... WHOOPS ... THERE HE GOES AGAIN!!!
If there were true peace on Earth, there would be no one alive to enjoy it.
"Pulver ... Heh-heh. Pulver wouldn't have the GUTS!"
sharePretty much every scene with Pulver, of course, but especially when the scotch-making scene. Iodine?? LOL!
"Then where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within."
So many, so many... I love the scene when the men come back drunk from liberty and the guard tells about the army guy getting thrown through the window. However, the best is when the sailor brings the goat on board - "she just ate her way to my heart." When Mr. Roberts asks if she has a name, the drunk sailor looks at the name plate:
Sailor: Property Of
Mr. Roberts: Does she have a last name?
Sailor: Admiral Wentworth
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The whole Doc/Doug scene near the end...one of the best 2 man scenes in the theatre....and the last scene...I think this was the first time Jack Lemon could show he could pull off a really dramatic scene....and the last part of the palm tree overboard scene, when all the guys realize they had read Roberts wrong, and their saluting of him just afterward. When Henry FOnda was honored by the kennedy center they had a navy choir on stage singing and then they all saluted him with the "Good night Mr Roberts" line as they marched off....FOnda was very visably moved....I think that scene has made me cry ever since"
Re the clap line....I read in a biography of Fonda that he would stick that line in whenever he knew there was an expecially stuffy type in the house...also the line was in the live version on NBC in the 80's so it may have been censored from the script
"Good NIght Mr Roberts"
"Thanks for the Liberty Mr Roberts, Thanks for everything"
"I'd rather have it than the congressional medal of honor"
It is not our abilities that make us who we are...it is our choices
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Favorite line not only from this movie, but one of my all time favorites and it's not so much the line as it is the read by William Powell as Doc:
When it's time to taste the "scotch" to see how it turned out, Doc takes the glass and in Powell's inimitable clipped fashion says "This requires a medical opinion." It's all in the delivery. No wonder Don Adams developed the speech patterns he used for Maxwell Smart in Get Smart after Powell.
"GET THOSE CANNIBALS OFF MY SHIP!"
God, Cagney was great in this.
No No No No! Not the wed one. Don't ever push the wed one!
Without a doubt - The southern SP who informs Roberts of the restriction. So deadpan but soooo funny after the insane antics of the crew coming back to the ship.
Also the Col. Middleton routine hilarious !!
It's better to live as your own man than as a fool in someone else's dream
Been watching this movie for years thanks to it being my Dads Favorite War Movie ( Which is something Rare )
Anyway tonight I noticed something for the first time. There is a X-Rated scene in this movie I wonder how it got by the Haze Office.
After the Nurses leave the ship One of the Crew is holding a Telescope about Croch level sticking straight out and he says "I just learned how to use this Thing" I don't know why but that struck me a Funny tonight.
There is more Gravy about you then the Grave. Scrooge.
The scotch making scene.
shareI agree that this line was a good one: "I'm looking for marbles all day long!"
Just before that line, when Pulver opens the can of marbles, it looks to me like Fonda was about to lose it.