The Young Lions (1958)

Parley Baer: Sgt. Brandt

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• Sgt. Brandt : Ahh, at last you are here. If you didn't look so pretty I'd give you a good spank in a very important place.

  [he slaps her lower back] 

  Simone : [chuckles]  Perhaps I'd like it.

  Sgt. Brandt : Yes, well, we can talk about that later.

• Sgt. Brandt : Lieutenant, I do wish you'd order your driver to slow down. I'm reluctantly willing to die for the Fatherland, but not in a traffic accident.

  Lt. Christian Diestl : We're late, Brandt.

  [to his driver] 

  Lt. Christian Diestl : Go a little faster, Basserman.

• Sgt. Brandt : Lieutenant, have you ever been to Paris?

  Lt. Christian Diestl : No, I have not been there.

  Sgt. Brandt : Oh, what a city! What a wonderful city that is. I'll show you a good time there. Ha! You won't keep those people indoors for ever. Not those Parisians. Ah, what *wonderful* girls! When I was a correspondent there last year, we practically lived in the streets. Simone and I, we will show you Paris the way it always was. The way it always will be.

• Sgt. Brandt : To be French is to be late.

  Lt. Christian Diestl : Two hours.

  Sgt. Brandt : lt's part of their charm.

• Sgt. Brandt : Don't be so impatient, Christian. Wait till you see her. A more delicious little strudel you have never seen. Really superb, typically French.

• Sgt. Brandt : Tell me, are we civilized human beings or are we wild beasts? A human being knows when he has lost, and he tries to save himself. When you are put into the army, you are expected to risk your life, but you are not expected to just throw it away. After all, in any war, Christian, after all the arms and the legs have been blown off, it doesn't really matter, because nothing really changes.

• Pvt. Maeschen : Where is everybody?

  Sgt. Brandt : Making love, drinking absinthe. You know the French. Don't you read our papers?