Famous War Movie Lines.

Stealing this now. Thank you.

 

Believe it or not, this one has been running through my head in the last few days.

"Gummidummen?"

 

The Longest Day? Referring to the dummy parachutists dropped on D-Day?

 

“...... His mother says can you pop round and see him?”


Perhaps a bit more to the clue will help: “……. Old girl must be crackers …..”

 

Jeez, I know I know it... but it's not coming to me.

 

"Well, there are certain sections of New York, major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade."

 

That White House film?

 

Not sure what movie you mean but that isn't the one the line is from.
It's a very famous one.

 

Would it be the same film with another famous line
"Of all gin joints in all the world you just happen to walk into mine" or something like that.

 

Yes it would!

 

One war film line I use in everyday life is Robert Redford as Major Julian Cook in A Bridge Too Far:

"And if there's any more good news I'll be sure to pass it right along"

 

Casablanca (1942) As Quarterfinal answered upthread, that White House film.

 

You'll have to excuse Dave, he lives in Georgia (the southern state, not the country).

 

Not a film, but from Blackadder Goes Forth.

During his testimony into the demise of Speckled Jim.

Baldric says "Oh no, sir, that's gobbleajuke!"

 

Dave just needed another coffee:


What with no takers for my offering quoted above from over a year ago, I must attribute this to my poor Norwegian transcription and declare that it came from ‘The King’s Choice’ (2016), clip at this link:

and the event that arguably marked the end of the ‘Phoney War’, with a fair expansion of the context and event at:
The Battle of Drøbak Sound, 1940

 

In the well known clip below, Werner Hinz, playing the part of FM Erwin Rommel, tours his coastal fortifications and at 1.30 introduces ‘……. Der laengste Tag’:

otherwise ‘The Longest Day,’ the title of Cornelius Ryan’s tome and the idiom now synonymous with 6 June 1944.

However, it would seem that the phrase has previous association with intense combat. When penning his version of ‘The Connaught Rangers’ circa 1890 to the tune Killaloe, Lt Charles Martin’s lyrics undeniably indicate as much in his verse with ‘….The lads that never fear the longest day…’ A rather good rendition of the song and its equally catchy tune is at:

joining at 48.11 for the piece and the line at 50.00.

In his book ‘Songs and Music of the Redcoats,’ Lewis Winstock mentions Martin’s ancestors fighting with the Devil’s Own at Badajoz in 1812, perhaps thereby associating the phrase with the Napoleonic wars, but the listing of Russians, French or Dutch - convenient for a rhyme with ‘much’ - offers a range of options and beyond Talavera, Bussaco (Wellington: “Wallace, I never saw a more gallant charge than that just now made by your Regiment) and Salamanca, amongst others.

Has anyone seen an earlier military association of the term, the longest day?

 

"Those five thousand ships you say they haven't got? They're here! THEY'RE HERE!"

 

"And they're heading straight at me!"

The Longest Day.

 

"...and you think all that can be solved by a mug of tea?" "Can't hurt, sir..."