Nigel Havers credited as playing...
Dr. Rawlins
- Jim: If the Americans land, the Japanese will fight.
- Dr. Rawlins: You admire the Japanese?
- Jim: Well, they're brave, aren't they?
- Dr. Rawlins: That's important, is it, Jim?
- Jim: It's a good thing if you want to win a war.
- Dr. Rawlins: But we don't want them to win, do we. Remember, we're British.
- Jim: Yes. I've never been there.
- [Nurses attempt to wake a sickly man]
- Jim: Can I have his shoes when he's dead?
- Dr. Rawlins: God you're a pragmatist, Jim.
- Jim: Dr. Rawlin, do you remember how we had helped build the runway? If we die like the others, our bones would be IN the runway. In a way, it's OUR runway...
- Dr. Rawlins: No it's THEIR runway, Jim! Try not to think so much! Try not to THINK so much!
- Dr. Rawlins: It's a good thing you're friends with Basie. He's a survivor.
- Jim: That's because he only drinks boiled water.
- Dr. Rawlins: What about your English prep? Just think of it as - the antidote.
- Jim: [rapidly] We-are-never-sure-of-sorrow, And-joy-was-never-sure, To-day-will-die-to-morrow, Time-stoops-to-no-man's-lure, With-love-grown-faint-and-fretful, With lips but...
- Dr. Rawlins: No, no, no, no, no. Try to learn it as a poem. It's not just a string of words, you know.