"[addressing his fighter squadron] Morning. You men now have the privilege of serving under the meanest, toughest, screamingest commander in the Marine Corps- me. If I say something you pretend it's coming from the Burning Bush. We're Marines. Marine Corps fighter pilots. We have no other function. That is your mission, and you're gonna hack it or pack it! You're flying with Bull Meechum now, and I kid you not, this is the eye of the storm! Welcome aboard."

"Paul Mantee - Colonel Virgil "Virg" Hedgepath"

"Paul Gleason - First Lieutenant Sammy"

"David Keith - "Red" Pettus"

"Stan Shaw - Toomer Smalls"

"Lisa Jane Persky - Mary Anne Meechum"

"Blythe Danner - Lillian "Lil" Meechum"

"Robert Duvall - Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur "Bull" P. Meechum"

"Michael O'Keefe - Ben Meechum"

"I'm a Meechum. A Meechum's a thoroughbred, a winner all the way. He chews nails while the other kids eat cotton candy. He never surrenders. He never gives up."

"Okay, Hogs, I've listened to you bellyache about moving to this hew town. This said bellyaching will end as of 1530 hours, will not affect the morale of this squadron henceforth. Do I make myself clear?"

"I'd like to propose a toast, to my son. He is eighteen today. He has just ordered his first drink. Before he drinks it, I'd like to wish him a long life, a wife as fine as his mother, and a son as fine as he's been. To my son!"

"Now you two young fools be careful tonight, because if you get yourself killed, your mother'd never let me hear the end of it."

"Richard Boone - John Fain"

"Maureen O'Hara - Martha McCandles"

"You know, this place sure speaks of a lot of money. You know what the problem with money is? Somebody's always trying to take it from you. Still, that's the only problem."

"Patrick Wayne - James ("Little Jake") McCandles"

"John Wayne - Jacob ("Big Jake") McCandles"

"Christopher Mitchum - Michael McCandles"

"I hate secrets! Never knew one to be kept."

"Michael, there's two reasons to kill: survival and meat. We need meat!"

"1909, the Edwardian golden days. Genteel civilization had come to England, the continent, and the eastern United States. New York rivaled London and Paris as one of the great metropolises of the world. Albert Einstein had expounded his theory of relativity back in 1905, and science had brought us the wonders of the modern world. Culture and refinement had arrived on the east coast of America. Caruso was singing Pagliacci at the Met. Arturo Toscanini was conducting. The Barrymores were performing and a Ziegfeld girl was the rage. 1909 in the western part of the 46 United States was not so refined. The surviving Indian warriors were now being rounded up by the U.S. Army. In Washington, William Howard Taft, 300 pounds of pure Republican, was president and life was comfortable. In other parts of the country men were fighting each other and the elements. In New York department stores, a lady could buy maxis and boots and live in style. Out west, they didn’t think about style, just living. Eastern empire builders had secured their fortunes, the Morgans, Vanderbilts, and Carnegies. There were empires in the west, too, such as the great McCandles Ranch. But these huge ranches were held together only by having enough men and guns."

"Bruce Cabot - Sam Sharpnose"

"Bobby Vinton - Jeff McCandles"

"Waiting is good for them and bad for us. You get impatient, nervy, careless and maybe dead."

"15 years ago I'd a killed ya for riskin' my grandson's life. If I find him dead, I'll still kill you."

"Ernest Borgnine - Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky"

"Richard Thomas - Paul Bäumer"

"Donald Pleasence - Kantorek"

"Well, Kat... I think we're gonna be separated. Three years. You remember when I first came up here? How green I was? You fixed that. "Keep your head down." That's what you said. Maybe... Maybe when this is over, when this war is really finished, maybe we can do something together. Huh? I don't know what. A glass of wine. I don't even know where you live. Three years in the same trenches, I don't even have your address. Let me give you mine. Let me give it to you."

"[to Kantorek] Not the Iron Youth then. No Iron Heroes. Just boys... wanna play, laugh, just stay alive. Only boys."

"[meeting his new platoon] So, here you are. It's the custom to assign one old hand to every new platoon. You're the new platoon. I'm the old hand. In training camp they filled you full of fancy information on how to be a soldier. We're going to work hard to forget all that. I'll teach you practi... [to Josef Behm] Listen to me, boy. I'll teach you practical things, like how to put your diapers on in the front lines, [puts his smoking pipe in his mouth] and how to kill Frenchies. You won't have long to wait before I baptise you. But first, we're gonna give you some hot food and we're gonna let you get some sleep, and then I'm gonna take you out on your first Patrol, tonight."

"Ian Holm - Corporal Himmelstoss"

"This story is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men, who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war."

"[after killing a French comrade] I didn't want to kill you. But you jumped in here like that. What would you have done? It's... it's just I'd never met you before... like this... face to face. I just saw your rifle... your bayonet... grenades. If we threw all those away... we could be brothers. But they never want us to know that, do they? They never want us to know. We each have mothers... fathers... the same... fear of death. The same... pain. The same... everything. Everything. Forgive me, comrade. I could write... to your family. Yes... Yes, I'll write!"

"Patricia Neal - Mrs. Bäumer"

"They burned the father, killed the mother, and raped the sister!"

"The lucky ones died first..."

"Esta tranquila familia no quería matar... pero tampoco quería morir (Mexico)"

"Wes Craven's classic original!"

"Cordy Clark as Mama"

"Just keep telling yourself it's only a film...It's only a film..."

"We guarantee you will jump out of your seat and scream in fear!"

"Robert Houston as Bobby Carter"

"Camping out with the family can be murder."

"Brenda Marinoff as Katy"