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The Iron Petticoat (1956)

Quotes

The Iron Petticoat

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  • Vinka Kovelenko: I lost my temper!
  • Colonel Tarbell: At the communists?
  • Vinka Kovelenko: No, at the male sex!
  • Major Chuck Lockwood: [holding out a bottle of whiskey] I tried to get vodka, but they were out.
  • Vinka Kovelenko: Yes, I heard you Americans were on short rations.
  • Vinka Kovelenko: I should think they would send a taller man.
  • Major Chuck Lockwood: [looks down] Well, maybe I'll grow on you!
  • Vinka Kovelenko: You have an odd face.
  • Major Chuck Lockwood: It came with the body. It's a set!
  • [Chuck tells Vinka how he plans to talk Colonel Tarbell into letting Vinka go to London]
  • Vinka Kovelenko: Do you think the Colonel would be fooled by such a ridiculous statement?
  • Major Chuck Lockwood: If he'll eat Army food, he'll swallow anything!
  • Colonel Tarbell: It doesn't hurt to tantalize em'.
  • Major Chuck Lockwood: Tantalize an heiress? That's like not opening your parachute!
  • Bartender: What's your stratagy, Captain?
  • Major Chuck Lockwood: Right now, I'm torn between suicide and desertion!
  • Colonel Tarbell: What do you think of her?
  • Major Chuck Lockwood: Well, women in uniform bother me. I don't know whether to kiss em' or salute em'!
  • Vinka Kovelenko: A good Communist has no subconcious!
  • Colonel Tarbell: That may very well be what's wrong with them!
  • Vinka Kovelenko: It's too dangerous!
  • Major Chuck Lockwood: Marriage?
  • Vinka Kovelenko: Moscow! We're going to live in Indianapolis, Indiana!

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