Commissioner Quotes in The Naked Jungle (1954)

Commissioner: Leiningen, you're up against a monster twenty miles long and two miles wide... forty square miles of agonizing death! You can't stop it!

Joanna Leiningen: [They are hearing the buzzing sound of amassed army ants in the distance] What is it?

Commissioner: Marabunta. Soldier ants. Billions and billions of them on the march. For generations they stay in their anthills. Then, for no reason, they start to move, gathering up others as they go, until they become a flood of destruction.

Joanna Leiningen: How do you stop them?

Commissioner: You don't. You just get out of their way.

Perkins: It's another telegram from Stodge City, sir. Judge Burke. He's the mayor there, you know.

Commissioner: Burke? Oh yeah, I remember him in law school. He's a bum.

Perkins: I didn't know you studied at law school, sir.

Commissioner: I didn't. I was the janitor.

Commissioner: Send him a Marshall. Anything for peace.

Perkins: That's just the trouble, sir. We haven't any available.

Commissioner: Nobody? What about that big head who's always hanging around here looking for work? What's his name? Dillon. What's he doing?

Perkins: Six months.

Commissioner: You know it could take us weeks to find where this thing is holed up. I mean it could be in the woods. Away from the city someplace, could be over in Jersey some place. My God with a wingspan like you're talking about here, that thing could fly miles into New York every day. And it would do that of course, you know because, New York is famous for good eating

Commissioner: [of Christina Pagniacci] I honestly believe that woman would eat her own young.

[opening narration]

Commissioner: They can throw curveballs and hit homeruns, they still listen to their fathers... most of the time. And what every dad wants is just one more season. It's the City Championship, the final game of the year. The father calls the pitches, the son always delivers.