The Star Witness (1931)

Edward J. Nugent: Jackie Leeds

Quotes 

• Pvt. Summerill : I'm thinking of what it means to be American.

  Jackie Leeds : Yeah well what do we get out of that?

  Pvt. Summerill : What do we get out of it - what do we get? Well jumping cornstalks!

  Pvt. Summerill : Did our forefathers ask that when they was clacking around on their bare feet at valley forge? Did we ask that when we was at the battlefields of bull run?

  Pvt. Summerill : I'll tell you what I got. I got a mini-ball in this here leg. But I kept my self respect. And we took the country together for a lot of young scamps like you. Standing around sucking cigarettes, saying "what do we get out of it". Sometimes when I look at you I wish we hadn't. But we did. We put the old flag up there for you. And you can keep it up there and you can holler down because you're scared of a bunch of backstabbing yellowbellied foreigners.

  Pvt. Summerill : Now what are you going to do about it, you whining whelp?