The Enemy Below (1957)

David Hedison: Lt. Ware

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• [the ship has just avoided two torpedoes] 

  Lieutenant Ware : The Miami yacht races were never like this!

• Doctor : Captain Murrell oughtn't to be here at all. He's as weak as a kitten. A man that gets his ship torpedoed and spends 25 days on a raft in the North Atlantic oughtn't to have to hit the ball again with only a few days in the hospital. I guess there aren't enough commanding officers to go around. Well, at least they gave him an easy ship.

  Lt. Bonelli : Huh! Boy, easy's no word for it. Listen, he'd get more rest on this boat...

  Lieutenant Ware : Ship!

  Lt. Bonelli : Ship, boat, what's the difference? He'd still get more rest here than he would if he were in a feather bed. Me, I'd like something to happen once in a while.

  Lieutenant Ware : If the Navy ever gets a load of this salty crew in battle, they'll send us all back to boot camp. I'll look so ridiculous with my head shaved.

• Lt. Mackeson : [Discussing the new captain]  I still don't see why they didn't move Ware up. He's been exec long enough.

  Lieutenant Ware : [Joking]  My dear Mackenson, the only craft I've ever commanded was a yawl in the Miami yacht races and the nearest I ever came to winning that was twenty-ninth. The Navy may have been desperate enough to put me in uniform, but not foolish enough to let me sail away by myself.