Catch-22

     

Catch-221970

Director: Mike Nichols
Stars: Alan Arkin, Bob Newhart, Art Garfunkel, Richard Benjamin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 122 minutes

Joseph Heller's novel was one of the seminal literary events of the 1960s, but Mike Nichols's film ultimately proved too literal in its attempt to bring Heller's fragmented fiction to the screen. Still, Nichols, who made this on the heels of The Gra… more »


Colonel Cathcart:
[as the base is being bombed in an air raid] What are you doing, Yossarian! Get off the field!

[Yossarian fires a Colt .45 at him, but it clicks, empty]

Colonel Cathcart:
I wanna' see you later. You're confined to the base. I won't forget this!

Yossarian:
I don't think the Air Force is gonna' forget about this!

Colonel Cathcart:
Don't be ridiculous! What's good for M&M Enterprises is good for the Air Force! We had to get rid of that cotton. The Germans promised to take it off our hands, if we ran this mission for them! It's all part of the deal!

Lt. Col. Korn, XO:
[loud bomb explosion is heard] There goes the Officer's Club!

Yossarian:
You made a deal with the Germans to bomb our own base?

Colonel Cathcart:
A contract is a contract! That's what we're fighting for!

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