Stalag 17 Quotes

Marko the Mailman : Are the doors covered? [ the men cover the doors ]
Hoffy : Yeah, they're covered.
Marko the Mailman : Okay, Steve, give them the radio. [ Blondie pulls a radio and earphones from under Steve's pant leg ]
Marko the Mailman : You can keep it for two days.
Hoffy : Two days? We're supposed to have it for a week.
Marko the Mailman : You're lucky to get it at all! The boys are afraid the Jerries will find it in here. This barracks is jinxed!

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Oberst Von Scherbach : Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.

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[ after Sefton cuts through the barbed wire to let them escape ]
Sefton : Let's blow, Chauncey.
Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : Let's.

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[ last lines ]
Duke : [ referring to Sefton's safe escape with Dunbar ] Whadda ya know? The crud did it.
Shapiro : I'd like to know what made him do it.
Animal : Maybe he just wanted to steal our wire cutters. You ever think of that?

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Price : Must you two always be last?
Animal : Oh, yeah? You try jumping in those trenches first. Everybody jumps in on top of you.
Shapiro : How do you think I got my hernia? [ coughs ]

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Triz' Trzcinski : [ after reading letter from home ] I believe it. My wife says, "Darling, you won't believe it, but I found the most adorable baby on our doorstep and I've decided to keep it for our very own. Now you won't believe it, but it's got exactly my eyes and nose." Why does she keep saying I won't believe it? I believe it! I believe it.

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Sgt. Schulz : [ on seeing the men wearing Hitler moustaches ] Bah! One Fuhrer is enough!

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Sefton : You got yourselves the wrong guy. Because I'm tellin ya the Krauts wouldn't plant two stoolies in one barracks. And whatever you do to me, you'll have to do all over again when you find the right guy!

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Oberst Von Scherbach : I'm grateful for a little company. I suffer from insomia.
Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : Did you ever try 40 sleeping pills?

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Sgt. Schulz : [ preparing POWs for an important inspection ] The barracks should be schpic, and also schpan!

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Geneva man : [ a Red Cross official is inspecting the camp just after Sefton was beaten on suspicion being an enemy informant. The official sees his injuries ] What happened to you? Were you beaten? [ Sefton doesn't answer ]
Geneva man : Why don't you answer? [ to the German officer escorting him ]
Geneva man : What did you do to this man?
Sefton : They didn't do nothing.
Geneva man : Who beat you?
Sefton : Nobody beat me. We were playing pinochle. It's a rough game.

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Oberst Von Scherbach : Curtains would do wonders for this barracks. You will not get them.

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Shapiro : Tea is being served on the veranda. Animal, where are the napkins? [ Animal puts down some napkins as Dunbar and Bagradian approach the table ]
Bagradian : [ Imitating Ronald Colman talking to his real-life wife, Benita Hume ] Do be seated, Benita. Hwah, hwah, what a perfectly charming table arrangement. They must have copied the pattern from "House Beautiful."

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