The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)

Gary Cooper: Gideon Patch

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• Gideon Patch : You listen! I didn't ask you to come on board, and I'm in command here! Now, if you don't like it, you can go over the side and swim!

• Gideon Patch : I have to ask you to trust me just for a few days until the inquiry.

  John Sands : Give me one reason. Why should I, Captain?

  Gideon Patch : You've trusted me already. When you were dangling on the end of a rope over the side of the Mary Deare, you trusted me!

  John Sands : I haven't forgotten.

  Gideon Patch : Well, now I'm on the end of a rope. You can haul me in or let me drown!

  Gideon Patch : [after a long silence]  Do I have to beg, Mr. Sands?

• Sir Wilfred Falcett : [During court testimony]  After the loss of the Silver Isle, you found yourself, as the saying goes, "on the beach" for some considerable time, did you not?

  Gideon Patch : Yes.

  Sir Wilfred Falcett : You were glad to be taken on as a third officer?

  Gideon Patch : Yes.

  Sir Wilfred Falcett : That must have been a bitter experience for you, the sort of experience ends to put a chip on a man's shoulder. Wouldn't you agree?

  Gideon Patch : That depends on the man!

• Gideon Patch : I'm asking you to do something for me as one man to another!