Blood Alley (1955)

John Wayne: Capt. Tom Wilder

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Quotes 

• Capt. Tom Wilder : [spoken through voice tube to engine room]  If you want a last look at home, you'd better take it now.

  Tack : [heavy with sorrow]  I looked.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : Patience was made in China.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : Susu!

  Cathy Grainger : [Cathy arrives, imitates Susu]  Want you very number-one washer?

  Capt. Tom Wilder : Tell Mr. Tao, him catchy very number-one ferryboat captain.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : If you hear a bell go ding-dong, you better come chop-chop.

• Cathy Grainger : You better go before I start making a fool of myself.

  Capt. Tom Wilder : Over what?

  Cathy Grainger : Over you.

  Capt. Tom Wilder : Now, wait a minute. You're a nice kid and so far I've managed to keep my hands off of you. But don't press your luck.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : That's a laugh, hey, Baby? Escape, my aching fantail. They think I'm nuts because I talk to you. I'm not sap enough to fall for that.

• Susu : My thinky Captain sailorman need cutty hair. My cutty, all 'ight?

  Capt. Tom Wilder : My thinky Captain sailing man want bathy. All 'ight?

  Susu : Can do.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : Don't kid yourself about me.

  Cathy Grainger : I won't.

  Capt. Tom Wilder : I hate the Reds because they closed a lot of Chinese ports where I have dames. Chinese, Eurasian, and White Russian. We ever get back to Hong Kong, you can step back up to your world, where you belong, and I'll get back down to mine.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : What smells, comrade? Your feet or the mattress? Both, eh?

• Capt. Tom Wilder : Hong Kong's my town, hey, Baby?

• Susu : Plenty big piece, you bet.

  Capt. Tom Wilder : Plenty big, you bet. Scram!

  [spanks Susu's behind as she leaves] 

  Capt. Tom Wilder : Oh, Baby.

• Cathy Grainger : Why did you kill him?

  Capt. Tom Wilder : It seemed like a good idea.

  Cathy Grainger : Do you think I'm the first woman ever touched by a soldier?

• Capt. Tom Wilder : We'll need a black gang.

  Tack : All set. Wine sack old skipper never know what go on under his feet. I train my cousins many months ago. Great black gang.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : Give it to me straight, chief. Has she got 300 miles left in her?

  Tack : Aye, Captain. She number-one ship.

• Susu : Nice room, you bet. You likey?

  Capt. Tom Wilder : Me likey.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : Come here, lardhead. As long as I'm breaking out of here, I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. Every hour that you kept me in a bloodbath, putting my brain through a wringer, I was talking to Baby, here. Jokes, sex, anything. That's how I beat you jerks at your own game. And by the way, comrade, Baby is a beautiful doll.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : The rudder's sluggish, the turnbuckles won't turn, the capstan's rusted, the decks are warped, she's stubby, and high in the water. God help us in a rough sea. But you know something, Baby? I kind of like her.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : What have they done with the Fengs?

• Big Han : You wouldn't mind if I blew the whistle, just a little toot-toot?

  Capt. Tom Wilder : Toot away.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : Full ahead! Welcome to Blood Alley, Baby.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : I thought you were the bleeding-heart kid from Peiping.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : Morning, Baby. And a good, good morning to you, Nursey. Will you take the wheel?

  Cathy Grainger : What's our course now?

  Capt. Tom Wilder : Just steer thataway.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : Eat it, comrade. It'll make you big and strong. Or dead!

• Capt. Tom Wilder : First thing we better do is get rid of the Commies aboard. Round up the Feng family and we'll put them ashore. Be that many less bellies to feed.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : Little idiot.

  Susu : *Big* idiot.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : You hungry, Baby? You're gonna get a lot hungrier.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : There's no true charts aboard, the compass is on the fritz, and we're running out of fuel; but, this ship is going to Hong Kong if I have to get out and push. I haven't got time to worry about you.

• Capt. Tom Wilder : Chief, you got garlic on your breath. What have you been eating?

  Tack : Garlic.

• Susu : Captain sailorman have before time pretty wife? Marry'd? Likey Missy Cathy? Missy Cathy, she likey Captain sailorman. My thinky so. What think you thinky about Missy Cathy?

  Capt. Tom Wilder : I thinky you talky too muchy. You remind me of a barber in Baltimore.

  Susu : Missy Cathy get old now. Needing husband man. She makey pretty fine wife, you bet. You likey? My fixy. My fetchy Tao's pigeon man.

  Capt. Tom Wilder : Are you blind, Susu? Can't you see that it's you who's got the saily man's eye?

  Susu : You crazy.

  Capt. Tom Wilder : I'm crazy about you!

  Susu : I thinky hair all cutty!

  Capt. Tom Wilder : Give me a kiss!

  Susu : You crazy crazy. Full of ginger!