Hell and High Water (1954)
Richard Widmark: Capt. Adam Jones
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Quotes
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Hakada Fujimori : I am sorry to tell you, your friend is dead.
Captain Adam Jones : [stunned] Dead...?
Hakada Fujimori : His plane crashed returning from an Arctic expedition. No-one survived.
Captain Adam Jones : [sadly] He never *did* like to fly!
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Captain Adam Jones : The last time I tailed a freighter, my price was 650 a month, and I had to buy my own uniforms.
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Captain Adam Jones : Look, uh, look before we go any further... exactly what country do you men represent?
Prof. Montel : We represent many countries... as private individuals. We are scientists, former statesmen, businessmen. All volunteers. Acting independently for a common cause. Against a common enemy.
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[Capt. Jones is forced to sail before his submarine is fully ready for sea]
Captain Adam Jones : What about the "running dive test"?
Prof. Montel : As an amateur, might I suggest that we try the "running test" *while* we are running?
Captain Adam Jones : Doctor, there are about a hundred ways of losing a submarine, and *you've* just come up with one of the *best*! We haven't even checked the torpedo tubes yet! You know what that means if we have to 'call on fish'? *It means we're dead!
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Captain Adam Jones : So tell me Professor, what makes a girl who looks like that get mixed up in science?
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Chief Holter : Have you blown a gasket? Nobody takes a female along on a pigboat.
Captain Adam Jones : Look junior, are you going to give me that two-thousand-year-old navy bilge that they're bad luck? Take a look at her, what's so bad about that?