Uncommon Valor (1983)

Fred Ward: Wilkes

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• Wilkes : [Demonstrating to the men how to do a lethal knife attack, using Johnson as his "victim"]  You come in low under his line of sight. You leap... taking him down, placing your hand over his nose, pulling his face away from your knife hand.

  Wilkes : [points his knife at the back of the skull]  At the base of his skull at the right of his spine - what the Chinese call the wind gate - you insert, scramble the brains... what you have is instant rag doll.

• Col. Cal Rhodes : You know, for years, I couldn't sleep after Korea. My nightmares all had to do with the Chosin Reservoir. The ground there was so frozen, we couldn't bury our dead. We had to pile 'em on trucks and lash them up against the tanks. For years I'd wake up with those dead, frozen faces staring at me.

  Wilkes : Did it ever go away?

  Col. Cal Rhodes : No... I finally made friends with them, though.

• Sailor : Hey, master Wilkes, how ya' been?

  Wilkes : What happened to your grenade?

  Sailor : I had to use that for an emergency enema!

• Col. Cal Rhodes : We'll need transportation... preferably four-wheel drive.

  Wilkes : Buy it or "borrow" it?

  Col. Cal Rhodes : Steal the fucker!