The Command (1954)
Guy Madison: Capt. Robert MacClaw
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Capt. Robert MacClaw : I'm getting out of the Army in seven days.
Martha Cutting : As a civilian?
Capt. Robert MacClaw : As a doctor.
Martha Cutting : But you're one now.
Capt. Robert MacClaw : Am I? A veterinarian can yank an arrow out of a dead man or a live one and a blacksmith can cauterize a wound with a hot iron. But neither of 'em can pull a child through diptheria or pneumonia.
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Capt. Robert MacClaw : My troops has extra mounts, sir. I thought perhaps you would like to use one.
Col. Janeway : I'm an infantryman, MacClaw. If I'm going to die, I'm not going to do it sitting down.
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Capt. Robert MacClaw : Sir, may I suggest that my troop act as rear guard?
Col. Janeway : Where did you learn cavalry tactics, Captain?
Capt. Robert MacClaw : Well, infantry isn't mobile...
Col. Janeway : Neither is dead cavalry. Ask Custer!
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Capt. Robert MacClaw : The riflemen are going to fight from the wagons.
Maj. Gibbs : Fight from wagons?
Capt. Robert MacClaw : Well, why not?
Maj. Gibbs : It's never been done! Wagons are supposed to be used as a defense.
Capt. Robert MacClaw : So the book says. Let's keep a closed book and an open mind, Major.
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Martha Cutting : You hate being a soldier and you hate killing. Yet you do it.
Capt. Robert MacClaw : I got a uniform and a conscience. Right now, the uniform covers the conscience.
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Martha Cutting : You sympathize with them. Why?
Capt. Robert MacClaw : Perhaps because we destroyed the Indian's ability to make a distinction between the good and the bad. He has a child's logic: the white man hurt him, therefore all white men are bad.
