A Guy Named Joe (1943)

Ward Bond: Al Yackey

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• Al Yackey : Lot of woman, Pete. Lot of woman.

• Al Yackey : Sometimes I wonder who he's fighting, us or the Nazis.

  Pete Sandidge : Aw, he's just like all the rest of these armchair pilots. He hasn't flown anything faster than a bathtub for 30 years. He's afraid to walk upstairs without a parachute strapped to his back.

• Al Yackey : Dorinda, you're as pretty as a pair of yellow shoes.

• Al Yackey : What a fog. Plane's been buzzing around overhead for the last half hour. Must be like trying to find your way through the inside of a cow. I never did see such a country! Even the birds are walkin'.

• Al Yackey : You know, Pete, back where I come from, folks call that love stuff quick poison or slow poison. If it's quick poison, it hurts you all over real bad like a shock of electricity. But if it's slow poison, well, it's like a fever that aches in your bones for a thousand years. Slow poison love's what you and Dorinda got. Yep, that's what you got, little case of slow poison.

• Al Yackey : I reckon maybe you're missing Dorinda a little bit, huh?

  Pete Sandidge : Oh, you reckon, do you?

  Al Yackey : Me, too. Just don't seem like we can hardly get along without her, does it? You know, I've never been so lonesome for another guy's gal in all my born days.

• Dorinda Durston : His number's up. I could tell it the minute I saw that plane.

  Al Yackey : Aw, his number ain't gonna be up for a good, long time, honey. He'll probably slip and fall in a bathtub and break his neck when he's 80 years old or so. He's a plane lucky guy. You know that.

• Al Yackey : What are you all steamed up about, Dorinda?

• Al Yackey : What's all this big news you're bustin' with, honey?

• Al Yackey : They tell me you're trying to win this war all by yourself. Nobody ever sees you anymore. You know, all work and no play...

  Dorinda Durston : Makes a girl keep her mind off her troubles.

• Al Yackey : I'm gonna be with the prettiest gal in all New Guinea; that is, if you guys are interested in pretty gals.

• Al Yackey : Honey, I'll be back here in half an hour. Now, you get yourself all prettied up, 'cause it's gonna be our night to howl.

• Al Yackey : She's always like this when she's on the ground. Skittish as a Colt.