Run Silent Run Deep (1958)

Burt Lancaster: Lt. Jim Bledsoe

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• [last lines] 

  Lt. Jim Bledsoe : [presiding at a funeral on his submarine]  It's thirty-eight days now since we left Pearl Harbor. I know how some of us felt then; I think I know how some of us feel now. But let no one here, no one aboard this boat, ever say we didn't have a captain.

  [as the body is buried at sea, he reads these remarks] 

  Lt. Jim Bledsoe : Unto almighty God we commend the soul of our shipmate departed. And we commit his body to the deep, in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection unto eternal life, when the sea shall give up her dead in the life of the world to come.

• Lt. Jim Bledsoe : If you should fail, and somehow come out of this alive, there won't be a desk small enough for you this time.

  Commander Richardson : That's strange, Jim. I never even thought of failing.

• Lt. Jim Bledsoe : It's one thing to drill a crew for fighting. But when you duck a Jap sub, they wonder why they should break their backs on drills when the captain has no stomach for attacking. What does he want? Obedience? Efficiency? Or the best drilled cowards in the Navy?

  Commander Richardson : [after a long pause]  Mr. Bledsoe, tell them I'm doubling the drills, starting tomorrow.

  Lt. Jim Bledsoe : Yes sir.

  [He starts to leave] 

  Lt. Jim Bledsoe : You might as well know, sir, I don't believe it.

  Commander Richardson : Believe what?

  Lt. Jim Bledsoe : That you ran away from that sub from cowardice.

• Laura Richardson : [Social norms of a 1940s lady, having changed from pants to a dress for their unexpected guest, she presents a tray of fresh lemonade and a bottle of gin to her husband and the irritated Lt. Bledsoe]  Anyone for a slug of gin?

  Lt. Jim Bledsoe : [P.O.'d at Captain Richardson for taking command of the sub away from him, Bledsoe contains himself to politely respond]  Thank you, Mrs. Richardson. I'll take a rain check... Some other time.

  Laura Richardson : [With the natural, gentle touch of this warm, classy lady who's seen everything as a wife of an officer with perhaps 30 years' service, including wartime, she graciously and realistically says 'goodbye']  Lieutenant, if there isn't another time, 'good luck.'

• Lt. Jim Bledsoe : [Commanding officer addressing his men via the sub's PA system]  You beach boys will be checking in at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. The hotel does

  [raises voice with one word] 

  Lt. Jim Bledsoe : not have a repair crew.