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Fear and Desire (1952)

Kenneth Harp: Lt. Corby • The General

Fear and Desire

Kenneth Harp credited as playing...

Lt. Corby • The General

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Quotes9

  • Lieutenant Corby: Well, we have nothing to lose but our futures.
  • Enemy General: Sometimes, as I look at these maps, I wonder if my own grave isn't being planned. Here... or here... or here.
  • Private Fletcher: I guess I'm not - built for this.
  • Lieutenant Corby: Nobody ever was. It's all a trick we perform when we'd rather not die - immediately.
  • Lieutenant Corby: Once you understand how a mousetrap works, if you're clever enough, you can use it as a springboard.
  • Lieutenant Corby: Cold stew on a blazing island. We've just made a perfect definition of war, Mac.
  • Lieutenant Corby: You know, there's nothing so refreshing as an afternoon outdoors in enemy territory. It's really too bad that the sun doesn't burn us green instead of brown - camouflage.
  • Mac: You talk too much; I guess we both do a little.
  • Lt. Corby: Sometimes talk is an indispensable medicine.
  • Mac: Yeah, but you get sicker later.
  • [Upon realizing the raft was not discovered]
  • Lt. Corby: They must've been reading a magazine in that plane.
  • Lieutenant Corby: We spend our lives running our fingers down the lists in directories, looking for our real names, our permanent addresses. No man is an island?
  • [chuckles softly]
  • Lieutenant Corby: Perhaps that was true a long time ago, before the Ice Age. The glaciers have melted away, and now we're all islands - parts of a world made of islands only...

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