Jerry Plunkett Quotes in The Fighting 69th (1940)

Jerry Plunkett: Now go tell the colonel he wants you.

Jerry Plunkett: If they don't let us at those Boches pretty soon, I'll have to carve me up a top-sergeant!

Terence 'Crepe-Hanger' Burke: Don't mind him sarge, he's his own worst enemy!

Sergeant 'Big Mike' Wynn: Not while *I'm* alive, he ain't!

Father Duffy: You know Jerry, you're getting yourself so "well-liked" in this army, that they'd rather machine gun *you* than the *Germans*! It was *bad enough* at Camp Mills, but instead in *improving* you've been getting *worse*!

Jerry Plunkett: Aw, that's what *you* think!

Father Duffy: No, that's what *everybody* thinks!

Father Duffy: I don't believe I've met *you* yet...

Jerry Plunkett: [thinks he is talking to a fellow recruit] Oh, I've been around. Plunkett's my name; Jerry Plunkett. "Smilin' Jerry" they call me, on account of my disposition!

[the recruits start fighting with each other]

Jerry Plunkett: Aw, the *saps*!

Father Duffy: [worried] Help me break it up, Jerry!

Jerry Plunkett: [unaware that he is talking to an officer] Not *me* pal; You don't get medals for *that* kinda fightin'!