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.
This movie has so many good lines, it's hard to pin down any one. On the other hand, the entire cabin scene between Roberts, Pulver, and Doc, is one of the funniest scenes ever filmed. Whenever I watch this film, I always rewind the scene where they talk about heroism, making Scotch, and Pulver's sex life. It's brilliant!
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I just get a kick out of that martinet of a Captain. I had one almost like him early in my career and after awhile you begin to handle them the way Roberts did... kind of resigned to their nonsense, though loathing them behind their backs.
He mentions being in the merchant marine, he'd have been a bigger pain in the ass as a chief mate, not master.