Holley Quotes in Battleground (1949)

[last lines]

Holley: [as they begin marching from the battlefield, passing their replacements as they enter] Hey, Kinnie - what ever happened to Jody?

Sgt. Kinnie: All right, come on! Come on! What do you want these guys to think, you're a bunch of WACs? Alright, alright pick it up now. Hut, two, three. Hut, two, three, four. Hut, two, three, four. You had a good home but you left...

I Company: You're right!

Sgt. Kinnie: Jody was there when you left...

I Company: You're right!

Sgt. Kinnie: Your Baby was there when you left...

I Company: You're right!

Sgt. Kinnie: Sound off!

I Company: One, two

Sgt. Kinnie: Sound off!

I Company: Three, four.

Sgt. Kinnie: Cadence Count

I Company: One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four!

Sgt. Kinnie: Your baby was lonely - as lonely as could be...

I Company: Until Jody provided company!

Sgt. Kinnie: Ain't it great to have a pal...

I Company: Who works so hard to keep up morale!

Sgt. Kinnie: You ain't got nothing to worry about...

I Company: He'll keep her happy till I get out!

Sgt. Kinnie: You won't get out until the end of the war...

I Company: In nineteen hundred and seventy-four!

Sgt. Kinnie: Sound off!

I Company: One, two.

Sgt. Kinnie: Sound off!

I Company: Three, four...

Major: Thank you Sergeant.

Holley: That's P.F.C. to you, major, as in praying for civilian

[while being bombarded by German artillery during a driving blizzard]

Holley: We've had good deals before, but this is the best one yet. This is great. I don't ever wanna go back. I found a home in the army.

Holley: Yeah, they really shoulda sent out a bigger patrol.

PFC. Johnny Rodriguez: Do you want to goof off?

Holley: Who said anything about goofing off?

PFC. Johnny Rodriguez: Nobody. I'm just saying, the best way is to tell them you heard voices talking in German.

PFC. Donald Jarvess: Let's say we heard voices talking in Japanese and let G-2 figure that out.

[as Bettis is digging a foxhole]

Holley: Let's not try to reach China this time, hey Bettis?

Bettis: Well there's no sense digging if you don't go deep.

Holley: The last one we dug one together, you went so deep that when I climbed out in the morning I got the bends.

Holley: That the new platoon leader?

Pvt. Johnny Rodriguez: Yeah, fresh off the boat.

Pvt. Ernest J. "Pop" Stazak: I understand your problems, men. I was once an enlisted man, myself.

Holley: For six months, maybe. Then seventeen weeks at OCS and he's an officer and gentleman by special act of Congress.

Holley: What's going on?

Sgt. Kinnie: Me and General McAulliffe decided to move I Company up on the line. That is if you agree.

Sgt. Walowicz: I want three volunteers to go out on a patrol, you, you, and you. You're in charge, Holley.

Holley: Why am I always volunteering for patrols? I'm just a cowboy.

[Staniferd is too sick to stay in combat]

Pvt. Staniferd: Hey Kinnie, how about showing me the way to the aid station? I'm freezing.

Sgt. Walowicz: Feeling any better?

Pvt. Staniferd: Worse, much worse. I've never felt so sick in my life. Maybe, maybe I've even got pneumonia. (He walks away laughing)

Sgt. Walowicz: He's really bad.

Pvt. Bettis: Yeah, he's a cinch to go back to the field hospital, maybe even to Paris.

Holley: I don't know. With that penicillin, he's liable to be back in a day.

Pvt. Bettis: Yeah, a good, clean flesh wound is better. Then they gotta send you back.

[Rodriguez is wounded and left under an American artillery barrage]

Pvt. Donald Jarvess: That's great. Artillery, can't miss. They've got Rodriguez to use as an aiming stake.

Sgt. Kinnie: Tell Walowicz to send out for Rodriguez as soon as the barrage lifts.

Holley: With what, a sponge?

Pvt. Jim Layton: The dreams are getting better all the time. I was back home in Baltimore loading up on hard-shelled crabs and beer.

Holley: That dream's against regulations, soldier. You know what our boys overseas always dream about.

Pvt. Jim Layton: Mom's blueberry pie?

Holley: Why, certainly. That's what we're fighting for. Boy, when I get home, just give me a hot dog and a slice of that pie. Am I gonna kick when I don't get my job back? No siree.

Pvt. Donald Jarvess: Careful study of the most scientific instruments and maps leads me to believe that German bombers are over Bastonge, fog or no fog.

Holley: [sarcastically] Kinda rough on rear echelon tonight.

'Kipp' Kippton: [sarcastically] Yeah, I've been thinking, the mess sergeant, the supply sergeant, the pill roller who gives us those shots with the square needle. I'm bleedin' for them.

[clicks his teeth]

Pvt. Jim Layton: [reading from newspaper] "Strategic Withdrawal In Bulge."

[to others]

Pvt. Jim Layton: What's a bulge?

Holley: Search me.