Stalag 17 (1953)

Sig Ruman: Sgt. Johann Sebastian Schulz

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Quotes 

• Sgt. Schulz : [on seeing the men wearing Hitler moustaches]  Bah! One Fuhrer is enough!

• Shapiro : Hey Schultz, sprechen Sie Deutsches?

  Sgt. Schulz : Ja?

  Shapiro : Then droppen Sie dead!

• Sgt. Schulz : How do you expect to win the war with an army of clowns?

  Lt. James Skylar Dunbar : We sort of hope you'd laugh yourselves to death.

• Sgt. Schulz : [amused]  You Americans are so *crazy*! That's why I like you!

• Sgt. Schulz : [preparing POWs for an important inspection]  The barracks should be schpic, and also schpan!

• Sgt. Schulz : We will grab some shovels and we will undig that tunnel which you digged.

  Animal : Shulz, why don't we just plug up the tunnel with the Commandant in one end, and you in the other?

• Sgt. Schulz : Well, well, gentlemen, am I interrupting something?

  Hoffy : Yeah, Schulz, we were just passin' out guns.

  Sgt. Schulz : Guns?

  [realizing he's kidding] 

  Sgt. Schulz : Ah, you're joking. Always with the visecrackers.

  Shapiro : Visecrackers. Where did he pick up his English, in a pretzel factory?

  Sgt. Schulz : You always think I'm a square. I've been to America. I've been wrestling there. I wrestled in Milwaukee and St. Louis, in Cincinnati, and I will go back. The way the war is going, I will be there before you.

  Shapiro : You should live so long.

  Sgt. Schulz : [sharing a laugh, then stopping]  Here. That's me in Cincinnati.

  Animal : [taking a picture]  Who's the other wrestler? The one with the mustache?

  Sgt. Schulz : That's my wife.

  Animal : Hey, look at all that meat. Ain't she the bitter end?

  Sgt. Schulz : [taking the picture back]  Oh, give it back. You must not arouse yourself.

• Sgt. Schulz : [after confiscating the POWs' radio]  Hoffy, I'm very sorry about the mousetrap, but the war news are very depressing anyway, huh?

  [speaking German to another guard] 

  Sgt. Schulz : I might as well also confiscate the antenna.

• Price : You guys have some machine gun practice last night?

  Sgt. Schulz : Oh, terrible. Such foolish boys. Such nice boys. I'd better not talk about it. It makes me sick to my stomach. Aufstehen. Aufstehen. Aufstehen. Roll call, everybody. Raus. Raus.

  Duke : You killed them, huh? Both of 'em?

  Sgt. Schulz : Oh, such nice boys. It makes me sick to my...

  Duke : Don't wear it out!

• Animal : As long as you're gonna move somebody in, how about a couple of them Russian broads?

  Sgt. Schulz : Russian women prisoners?

  Shapiro : Jawohl.

  Sgt. Schulz : Some are not bad at all.

  Animal : Ja. Just get us a couple with beautiful glockenspiels.

  Sgt. Schulz : [sharing a roar of laughter, then stopping]  Droppen sie dead!