William Bendix credited as playing...
Gus Smith
- Gus Smith: My name is Schmidt, but I changed it to Smith. That's what I got against these guys more than anything else. They make me ashamed of the name I was born with. I got a lot of relatives in Germany. For all I know this guy may be one of them. I say throw him to the sharks!
- Gus Smith: A guy can't help being a German if he's born a German, can he?
- John Kovac: [referring to Willie] Neither can a snake help being a rattlesnake if he's born a rattlesnake! That don't make him a nightingale! Get him out of here!
- Alice MacKenzie: Lie down please.
- Gus Smith: What for?
- Alice MacKenzie: You'll be more comfortable. I want to take a look at your leg.
- Gus Smith: Oh, well, okay babe. Maybe you'll let me return the compliment someday.
- John Kovac: As of now I'm skipper, and anybody who don't like it can get out and swim to Bermuda. What about that?
- Gus Smith: I'll buy it.
- Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett: Suits me. What about you, Miss?
- Alice MacKenzie: I'm for it.
- George 'Joe' Spencer: Yes, sir!
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: Well, if the rest agree.
- Connie Porter: All right, Commissar, what's the course?
- Gus Smith: [sees someone in the water with the hands on the side of the lifeboat] Hey, look. Another customer.
- [lifeboat passengers pull him aboard]
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: Where did he come from?
- Connie Porter: Is he a crew member?
- John Kovac: I never saw him before.
- George 'Joe' Spencer: Not off our boat.
- Willy: [he speaks] Danke schoen.
- Connie Porter: Darling, you want to live, don't you?
- Gus Smith: Not with one leg.
- John Kovac: Don't be a sap, Gus.
- Gus Smith: You don't understand.
- John Kovac: Sure I do: Rosie.
- Connie Porter: What's Rosie got to do with it?
- Gus Smith: Everything. If I lose my leg, I lose Rosie.
- Connie Porter: Of course, I don't know Rosie.
- Gus Smith: She loves to dance. It's her hobby. It's her whole life. Put yourself in her place. Do you like to dance?
- Connie Porter: Mad about it.
- Gus Smith: Well, then, what's good a hep-cat with one gam missin'?
- Connie Porter: Now, you listen to me. I don't know Rosie. But, I know women. Some of my best friends are women. And one of them's - that kind of a...
- Gus Smith: What kind of a?
- Connie Porter: Well, a independent creature who lives her own life.
- Gus Smith: That's Rosie all over.
- Connie Porter: With a heart of gold! And she gives it away.
- Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett: He's the champion hoofer of the Merchant Marines.
- Gus Smith: Tell her what I done in Jersey City. Listen, I copped two prizes at Roseland one year and all the time I'm sufferin' something terrible from double-pneumonia. I can out-jive the rest of those hep-cats even with a bum gam.