Captain Disko Troop Quotes in Captains Courageous (1937)

Manuel Fidello: 15 years I've been fisherman, first time I catch fish like you.

[blows conch shell, and heads towards boat ringing bell]

Manuel Fidello: HEY, Aboard the vessel!

Captain Disko Troop: Hey!

Manuel Fidello: I bring you new kind of fish.

Captain Disko Troop: What'chu get?

Manuel Fidello: I got new kind of fish. He got no tail. He got pants on his dorsal fin. I think maybe he about 10 year old.

[pulls up next to schooner and start hauling up boy]

Dan Troop: Aw, its a kid ain't it?

Captain Disko Troop: Inquiring if Harvey is earning his keep: Manuel?

Manuel Fidello: It's okay, he do some work.

Harvey: I did not. - That was work.

Manuel Fidello: You clean something off deck, no?

Harvey: You made me do something.

Manuel Fidello: That was work.

Captain Disko Troop: You're trailing me because I can find cod where you can't find half a pound of sick squid.

Manuel Fidello: He beat us into Gloucester this trip, too, I think.

Captain Disko Troop: Oh, you think so, do ya? Well, now listen to me, I'm gonna tell you something. I ain't so dumb! Fussin' around like that will make him think the fishin' is good here. Then, in the mornin', when the fog banks roll in, we'll sneak out and leave him sittin' here. Baitin' big and catchin' small, while we're out findin' fish! We'll have a full hole and be tied up in Gloucester by the first of August and he'll still be out here, flounderin' around, tryin' to catch fish or I'll look more like a halibut than he did.

Captain Disko Troop: I suppose you deny I showed you the road to this spot a year ago this very day! Ya cross-eyed mackerel!

Harvey: What happens - what do you do when people don't speak to you, around here?

Captain Disko Troop: You have to settle that yourself, son. I'm skipper to a crew; but, I ain't dry nursemaid. And I don't take no part in squabbles. They settle that between themselves, just like everything else. Whatever's foul between between you and Manuel, you'll have to free and clear yourselves.

Captain Disko Troop: Walt Cushman beats me into Gloucester? I'll hang myself with an eel.

Captain Disko Troop: Why, I know this bottom as well as my wife knows her own kitchen.