Battleground (1949)

James Whitmore: Kinnie

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• [last lines] 

  Holley : [as they begin marching from the battlefield, passing their replacements as they enter]  Hey, Kinnie - what ever happened to Jody?

  Sgt. Kinnie : All right, come on! Come on! What do you want these guys to think, you're a bunch of WACs? Alright, alright pick it up now. Hut, two, three. Hut, two, three, four. Hut, two, three, four. You had a good home but you left...

  I Company : You're right!

  Sgt. Kinnie : You had a good home but you left...

  I Company : You're right!

  Sgt. Kinnie : Jody was there when you left...

  I Company : You're right!

  Sgt. Kinnie : Your Baby was there when you left...

  I Company : You're right!

  Sgt. Kinnie : Sound off!

  I Company : One, two

  Sgt. Kinnie : Sound off!

  I Company : Three, four.

  Sgt. Kinnie : Cadence Count

  I Company : One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four!

  Sgt. Kinnie : Your baby was lonely - as lonely as could be...

  I Company : 'Til Jody provided company!

  Sgt. Kinnie : Ain't it great to have a pal...

  I Company : Who works so hard to keep up morale!

  Sgt. Kinnie : Sound off!

  I Company : One, two

  Sgt. Kinnie : Sound off!

  I Company : Three, four.

  Sgt. Kinnie : Cadence Count

  I Company : One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four!

  Sgt. Kinnie : You ain't got nothing to worry about...

  I Company : He'll keep her happy till I get out!

  Sgt. Kinnie : But you won't get home 'til the end of the war...

  I Company : In nineteen hundred and seventy-four!

  Sgt. Kinnie : Sound off!

  I Company : One, two.

  Sgt. Kinnie : Sound off!

  I Company : Three, four...

• Holley : What's going on?

  Sgt. Kinnie : Me and General McAulliffe decided to move I Company up on the line. That is if you agree.

• Lt. Teiss : You sure they were enemy tanks?

  Pvt. Donald Jarvess : We saw them, Lieutenant.

  Lt. Teiss : You think we got enough anti-tank grenades to do any good?

  Sgt. Kinnie : We ain't got any. Mind if I make a suggestion, Lieutenant?

  Lt. Teiss : What?

  Sgt. Kinnie : Well, sir, our usual defense against tanks is to call for artillery, and then to run like a jackrabbit.

  Lt. Teiss : We got orders to hold these positions.

  Sgt. Kinnie : Well, sir, let's call for artillery and keep our heads down, then.

  Lt. Teiss : We could send out some bazooka men... if we had any bazookas.

• [Rodriguez is wounded and left under an American artillery barrage] 

  Pvt. Donald Jarvess : That's great. Artillery, can't miss. They've got Rodriguez to use as an aiming stake.

  Sgt. Kinnie : Tell Walowicz to send out for Rodriguez as soon as the barrage lifts.

  Holley : With what, a sponge?