Cast a Giant Shadow

Maj. Safir:
Colonel Marcus?

Bert Harrison:
Merry Christmas.

Maj. Safir:
My name is Safir, and my business is private.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
Bert Harrison, my law partner. Mr. Safir, who conducts his private business in Macy's window.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
Would you give up everything you love to fight an insane war for a little country that's gonna get its brains blown out in a couple of weeks?

Maj. Safir:
If it were my country.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
Maybe it's yours, but... it isn't mine.

Maj. Safir:
But you are a Jew.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
I'm an American, Major. That's my religion. The last time I was in Temple I was 13 years old. I made a speech and got 42 fountain pens. I don't have to go again. I've got enough fountain pens.

Emma Marcus:
I guess I'm proud of you. But I'm so damn tired of being proud of you.

Emma Marcus:
Did you ever notice we don't have any children?

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
Only me.

Emma Marcus:
I was the only girl in Brooklyn who didn't get pregnant during the war.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
Hm?

Emma Marcus:
My mother kept the statistics.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
Suppose I go as a private citizen?

Aide to Gen. Randolph:
Then don't involve the Army in any way. Don't use your rank or even your right name.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
Is it all right with you if I keep the same sex?

Magda Simon:
Michael! Michael! Oh, Mike... It's so good to see you after so long... I'm sorry. I'm very late. How are you?

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
How do I look?

Magda Simon:
Tired, like you've been making love to all the girls in America.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
Eh, it's good to be back!

Magda Simon:
From now on, I'm your sister.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
Hmm, that's nice. What's the attitude on incest in this country?

Magda Simon:
Very biblical. Especially since I'm also married. My husband is an officer in the Palmach... But you can try if you wish.

Magda Simon:
Remember, if we are stopped by a British patrol, we are off for a weekend in the country.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
And you are my sister.

Magda Simon:
Do you have good sex with your wife?

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
What goes on in that pretty head of yours?

Magda Simon:
Andre's not very good in bed.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
Well, just close your eyes and tell the doctor everything.

Abou Ibn Kader:
When you were 3 years old, I was stealing cattle from your father. There was a man! A lion! He shot me twice, and we came to an agreement of gentlemen. I was a guest in your house. I held you on my knee. Twice you wet your pants and mine. You have no honor.

Ram Oren:
It was an old Bedouin friend of my father's. I thought he died long ago.

Abou Ibn Kader:
Hush, hush, I'm far from dead. You can ask that bag of fat who just danced for us.

Abou Ibn Kader:
Ram Oren, don't wet your pants again.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
You know they have artillery. You don't even have armor.

Ram Oren:
This dynamite is our artillery, and the night is our armor.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
And the Lord is my Shepherd. but I've always thought that maybe he's their shepherd, too.

Ram Oren:
You stay.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
If so, there'll be a hell of a lot of confused sheep.

Jacob Zion:
They told you, I suppose, that I have a terrible temper.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
I served in Germany under General "blood-and-guts" Patton. You're a pussycat.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
The olive branch hasn't worked around here since Noah ran the ark into a mountain.

Emma Marcus:
Next week, he's going in a convoy to Jerusalem. And he's dictating from memory every army training manual he can remember. He says they need it more than the Bible.

Mrs. Chaison:
Did he happen to mention who he's dictating the Song of Solomon to?

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
Why do you let women to go on these convoys?

Asher Gonen:
Magda volunteered.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
She's been through enough. She just lost her husband, she's in a terrible st...

Asher Gonen:
Look, we need everyone. Especially since the British search us for weapons. Being British, they're also too polite most of the time to search a woman thoroughly.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
You're lucky you're not occupied by the French.

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
You know, I'll bet if Moses came down from Mount Sinai again, the Palmach would turn down five of the Commandments just so God wouldn't get a swelled head.

Gen. Mike Randolph:
And now, God help them, 'cause that's all the help they'll get from us.

Vince Talmadge:
Hey, don't leave me here! I'm anti-Semitic!

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
You've got no choice. Hit those tanks with everything.

Maj. Safir:
Risk the entire force?

Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus:
They don't know it's a whole force! Go for broke. This has gotta be the biggest bluff since the invention of falsies.