Top Secret Affair (1957)

Kirk Douglas: Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin

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• Col. Homer W. Gooch : You look peaked, what's wrong with you?

  Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin : A little off my feet, I guess.

  Col. Homer W. Gooch : What have you been eating?

  Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin : Gnawing at myself, mostly.

  Col. Homer W. Gooch : Well I should think that old tough battle-scarred carcass of yours would be highly indigestible, ha ha ha ha ha ha!

  Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin : Certainly is, I can't keep it down.

• General Daniel A. Grimshaw : I did all I could. I'm just repeating what the Joint Chiefs yelled at me.

  Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin : What a bunch of -...

  General Daniel A. Grimshaw : I agree! I stood up for you. I argued till I was blue in the face. I said you were a tactical genius and a perfect officer... but I also had to admit you didn't know as much about women as you thought you did.

• Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale : [In front of the courthouse]  You stay away from me or I'll kill you!

  Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin : Not here, Miss Peale. Don't you know the old saying, "generals die in bed"?