Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)

Don Stroud: Roy Brown

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• Canadian Reporter : Lieutenant Brown, the readers of the Toronto Star want to know about Canada's newest Ace.

  Roy Brown : What is there to know? I'm just a technician; I change things.

  Canadian Reporter : Change things?

  Roy Brown : Put a plane in front of me, with a man in it, I change them into a wreck and a corpse.

  Canadian Reporter : Well... well how do you like France?

  Roy Brown : It's a nice country, isn't it? Lots of my friends will be staying after the war.

  Canadian Reporter : Ah... how do you like the French girls, Lieutenant?

  Roy Brown : With both their arms and legs, I think.

  Canadian Reporter : [coughs]  ... the German planes, are they dangerous?

  Roy Brown : The Germans, they're dangerous. The planes, they're dangerous too. They kill as many Germans as we do, the same way ours do us.

  Canadian Reporter : But now that we outnumber the Germans, we're... we're winning, aren't we?

  Roy Brown : How in Christ's name do I know? I go out in the morning and try to stay alive till I run out of petrol. One day I come back and they tell me I'm an Ace.

  Canadian Reporter : But you've... you've shot down eight German planes!

  Roy Brown : Is it eight? God Almighty I thought it was a hundred. I keep shooting him down but he's always up there in the morning. How the hell do I know who's winning the war? One of these mornings...

  Canadian Reporter : One of these mornings, it'll all be over.

  Roy Brown : How can it be over? There's still some of us alive. They wouldn't end it with any of us alive, now would they?

• Roy Brown : [Walking away from another pilot after an argument on the firing range, when the other officer turns his machine gun to Brown but does not use it]  What's the matter? You can't shoot a man in the back if he's not in a plane?