Sergeant Zack Quotes in The Steel Helmet (1951)

Sergeant Zack: Dead man's nothin' but a corpse. No one cares what he is now.

Sergeant Zack: [screaming at critically wounded Korean major as he grabs him from the collar] If you die, I'll kill yuh!

Sergeant Zack: You talk more like a dog face than a gook.

Short Round: I am no gook. I am Korean!

Sergeant Zack: Where's your people?

Short Round: With Buddha.

Sergeant Zack: What's that paper on your back for?

Short Round: Prayer to Buddha asking him to heal me if I am wounded.

Sergeant Zack: Oh, yeah? I thought you forgot to take off the pricetag.

Lt. Driscoll: Where's your officer?

Sergeant Zack: Fertilizing a rice paddy with the rest of the patrol.

First GI: I found a dead American.

Cpl. Thompson: Are you sure he's dead? You gotta be sure, you know.

First GI: Half his head is gone.

Cpl. Thompson: I better check.

Sergeant Zack: He said his head was gone. Save your strength.

Sergeant Zack: Look, Lieutenant, you got nuthin' out threre but rice paddies crawlin' with Commies just waitin' to slap you between two big hunks of rye bread and wash you down with fish eggs and vodka.

Second Lieutenant: [looking at the ragtag survivors: Baldy, Zack, Buddha-Head, and Thompson] Say, what kind of outfit is this anyway?

Sergeant Zack: Uh, U. S. Infantry.

Sergeant Zack: Did you hear the Colonel? Hear what he said?

Lt. Driscoll: Yeah. Yeah I heard what he said.

Sergeant Zack: Well, what are we waitin' for? Get off the Beach. Get those Krauts. Gotta get off the beach.