Blood Alley (1955)

Henry Nakamura: Tack - Engineer

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.

• Tack : That town for the birds. Wish I back there. I train, learn marine engineer in States.

• 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.

• Tack : We never make Hong Kong with old iron boiler. I plenty good engineer. Know my stuff. Now repair yard give us new steel boiler.

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

  Tack : Garlic.