Dennis Lipscomb credited as playing...
Captain Taylor
- [Last lines]
- Captain Taylor: I guess I'll have to get used to Negroes with bars on their shoulders, Davenport. You know, being in charge.
- Captain Davenport: Oh, you'll get used to it, Captain. You bet your ass on that. You'll get used to it.
- Captain Taylor: Eyes - front!
- Captain Taylor: They're making a fool out of you. Can't you see? Will you take off those damn sunglasses?
- Captain Davenport: I like these. They're like MacArthur's.
- Private First Class Peterson: Sir, are there any suspects?
- Captain Taylor: None.
- Private Henson: Come on, now. Everybody knows it was the Klan.
- Captain Taylor: Were you an eyewitness, soldier?
- Private Henson: They lynched Jefferson the week I got here. Now, two weeks after that it was...
- Captain Taylor: Henson, unless you saw it, you keep your opinions to yourself.
- Captain Taylor: We don't want anybody from this fort going into Tynin looking for rednecks.
- Corporal Cobb: May I speak, sir?
- Captain Taylor: Cobb?
- Corporal Cobb: Colonel Nivens must know nobody colored killed the Sarge.
- Captain Taylor: Well, this is precautionary, Cobb. We can't have the Army engaged in revenge on civilians.
- Captain Taylor: Let me explain something to you. You go near Tynin in your uniform, sounding white, and charging local people, and you'll wind up just as dead as Waters.
- Captain Taylor: Memphis, about that catch you made in center field today: How in the hell did you get up that high?
- C.J. Memphis: They say I got bird in my blood, sir.
- Captain Taylor: I hope it's an American Eagle.