Glory (1989)

John Finn: Sgt. Maj. Mulcahy

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Quotes 

• Sgt. Mulcahy : Company, halt!

  [to Sharts] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : For God's sake, man! Do you not know your right from your left?

  Sharts : N-n-no, sah.

  Sgt. Mulcahy : How many here do not know right from left?

  [Half a dozen hands are raised] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : [mutters]  Jesus have pity.

  [smacks Sharts in the chest] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : This is your *front*!

  [slaps his back] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : This is your *rear*!

  [stomps on his right foot] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : This is your *right*!

  [goes to stomp on his left foot] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : And this...!

  [Sharts lifts his foot out of the way] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : Now you're learnin', boy-o!

• Colonel Robert G. Shaw : Sgt. Mulcahy!

  Sgt. Mulcahy : Sir!

  Colonel Robert G. Shaw : I have no doubt you a fair man, Mulcahy. I wonder if you are treating the men a little hard.

  [Sgt. Mulcahy pauses] 

  Colonel Robert G. Shaw : You may speak freely.

  Sgt. Mulcahy : The boy is a friend of yours, is he?

  Colonel Robert G. Shaw : Yes, we grew up together

  Sgt. Mulcahy : Let him grow up some more.

• Sgt. Mulcahy : You are ugly Mexican-African fuckin' whores!

• [watching Searles practice with his bayonet] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : Oh, what do we have here? Bonnie Prince Charley and his toy bayonet! You're not reading your books now. Stab me.

  Cpl. Thomas Searles : What?

  Sgt. Mulcahy : Stab-me.

  [Searles comes at him gingerly and Mulcahy slaps it away] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : I said STAB, not TICKLE! Come on, you prissy little schoolgirl! You're the worst soldier in this whole company, now HIT ME!

  [Searles comes at him again, Mulcahy disarms him and slams the rifle butt into his stomach, then his face. Searles falls to the ground, writing in pain and sobbing] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : No shame, son, get up... I SAID GET UP!

  Trip : Nigger forgot to duck, that's all!

  Colonel Robert G. Shaw : Sergeant, deal with that man!

• Sgt. Mulcahy : [berating Private Trip]  You half-wit black bastard! Did they truly cut your balls off at birth? I'm gonna work on you, you bastard, until I get you broken.

• Sgt. Mulcahy : [mocking Searles' manner of walking]  Oh, look at this, Bonnie Prince Charlie! Are you a gentleman? Are you a member of Congress or something? Or are you the bloody Prince of Africa?

  [Searles looks at the sergeant indignantly] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : Don't look at me, look straight ahead! I'll eat your ass up, boyo!

  Major Forbes : [observing the drill with Shaw]  You know, the Irish are not noted for their fondness for the colored.