The Gypsy Moths (1969)

William Windom: V. John Brandon

Photos 

Quotes 

• V. John Brandon : What I don't understand is, why you do this thing at all.

  Joe Browdy : To me, it's a business.

  V. John Brandon : And you, Mr. Rettig? What's it to you? If you don't mind my asking.

  Mike Rettig : I had a friend in the Army, a sergeant, a parachutist for about twenty years. He used to say that jumping was not only a way to live, but also a way to die. Damn few things are.

• [last lines] 

  Elizabeth Brandon : [about Mike]  He wanted me to go with him.

  V. John Brandon : Did he?

  Elizabeth Brandon : [long pause]  The thought terrified me.

  V. John Brandon : And me...

• V. John Brandon : We have a college. We have a college and a missile base - typical little American town.

• V. John Brandon : Pays well, then, this sort of thing?

  Joe Browdy : If we make it interesting enough.

  Elizabeth Brandon : Oh? How do you do that?

  Joe Browdy : Make it interesting?

  Elizabeth Brandon : Yes, I mean, I shouldn't think you'd have to do anything in particular to make it more interesting than it is to begin with.

  Mike Rettig : What Browdy means is the closer we come to the ground - the more interesting it is for the customers. And for us too, of course.

  Elizabeth Brandon : [pause]  How terrifying.

• V. John Brandon : Are you a religious man, Mr. Browdy?

  Joe Browdy : What's religion have to do with it?

• V. John Brandon : "He is at liberty to die, who does not wish to live."

  Mike Rettig : Do you believe that?

  Joe Browdy : That's dead wrong.