Bataan (1943)

Desi Arnaz: Felix Ramirez

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• Sergeant Bill Dane : Don't tell me that's Jap jive!

  Felix Ramirez : No, Sarge, no. That's good old America. That's U.S.A. Well, music with our meals, eh! Fancy. That's Tommy Dorsey, from Hollywood! Ohhh... He sends me, Sarge! He makes me lace up my boots! Oh, brother! Keep blowing, Tommy, keep blowing. Oh, boy, he's tall tonight, he's tall. Yeah, talk to me, talk to me. Ohhh... ha, ha, ha. Give me some of that trombone talk, Tommy.

• Sergeant Bill Dane : Malloy, how are the groceries?

  Sam Malloy : The groceries? I'll tell you, there ain't no sugar for the coffee and there ain't no coffee. There's maggots in the meat and the meat is mule.

  Leonard Purckett : Mule?

  Sam Malloy : Yeah, mule.

  Felix Ramirez : If you hold your nose, it's all right.

• Sergeant Bill Dane : You ever handle one of these before?

  [hands out a Tommy gun] 

  Felix Ramirez : We never had any of these in our outfit.

  Sergeant Bill Dane : Well, you pull this and you pull this and the gun'll do the rest.

  Corp. Jake Feingold : Except in case when it jams.

  Felix Ramirez : What do I do if it jams?

  Sergeant Bill Dane : Write a letter to your Senator.

• Felix Ramirez : I had the shivers.

  Sergeant Bill Dane : First the shivers and then the shakes. Hot and then cold and then hot again. I've had malaria myself. I know how it goes.

  Felix Ramirez : But, I ain't sick!