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Ike: Countdown to D-Day Quotes

Ike: Countdown to D-Day is a television show that was first aired in 2004 on A&E (TV channel). Ike: Countdown to D-Day ended in 1970.

Ike: Countdown to D-Day was on for 1 episodes. It features Dennis A. Brown as producer, Shinkichi Mitsumune as theme composer, Jeff Beal in charge of musical score, and David Gribble as head of cinematography.

Ike: Countdown to D-Day is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Ike: Countdown to D-Day is 89 minutes long. Ike: Countdown to D-Day is distributed by A&E Television Networks.

The cast includes: Mick Rose as King George VI, Tom Selleck as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bruce Phillips as Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery, George Shevtsov as General Charles DeGaulle, and Ian Mune as Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Ike: Countdown to D-Day Quotes

Bruce Phillips as Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery

  • (Bruce Phillips) "I'll be off, then."
  • (Tom Selleck) "I'll walk you out."
  • (Tom Selleck) "Supposed to be a good movie."
  • (Bruce Phillips) "Not much taste for the cinema myself. Besides, Never enough time for preparation, is there?"
  • (Tom Selleck) "Well, we all need some recreation. A movie once a week, let the hair down seems to do the trick."
  • (Bruce Phillips) "If you say so. Although, if you don't mind me saying so -- that jeering when you came on the screen. A bit much."
  • (Tom Selleck) "Good natured as I see it."
  • (Bruce Phillips) "Undisciplined."
  • (Tom Selleck) "So is using German troop movements to push your plan for a dagger thrust again. The broad assault is a closed matter. I allow all my sub-commanders latitude, General, but restraint is also a virtue."
  • (Bruce Phillips) "Yes, sir. Point taken."

Tom Selleck as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • (Tom Selleck) "Dearest Mamie --"
  • (Tom Selleck) "-- at last the days grow longer and we will soon be in it. I face that with neither dread nor joy. How I wish this cruel business of war could be completed quickly. It leaves me heartsick to think of sending so many young men against Hitler's Atlantic wall. I admit to having developed a veneer of callousness, but counting the human cost is a terribly sad business, and no veneer of callousness allows me to escape the truth that back home the news brings anguish and suffering. So many youngsters already gone forever. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters back home must have a difficult time retaining any belief in the internal rightness of things. There is no true glory in war."
  • (Tom Selleck) "I'm not sending a bunch of fresh young kids to die for a people they know nothing about, I'm asking them to die for freedom and they're ready to do it and that's why they're heroes."
  • (Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith) "Last one at the dance or the first?"
  • (Tom Selleck) "Hell, it's just the way it is, Bedell. One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described, the most powerful man in history. Now the order's given, hell; I'm just audience, front row center to be sure. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah, they're the ones who will affect the outcome, not me. It's up to them now."
  • (Tom Selleck) "Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With so many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth, all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad."

Ian Mune as Prime Minister Winston Churchill

  • (Ian Mune) "There are two kinds of problem drinkers Chief Whip; those who drink too much and those who drink too little."

Mick Rose as King George VI

  • (Mick Rose) "I am impressed by the detail, the comprehensiveness of your planning. The expected losses, the sheer carnage --"
  • (Tom Selleck) "I also ache at that thought, your majesty. I remember my first trip to Europe as a young man, and I felt blessed to be here, to see it, to touch the origins of my own country that I love so dearly. I hoped one day all young Americans will have the same opportunity. Now hundreds of thousands will, along with Britons, and Canadians and European Allies fighting to return home. This kind of visit isn't what I had in mind. But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some must die, it is in a worthy cause."

George Shevtsov as General Charles DeGaulle

  • (George Shevtsov) "You say local administrations will stay in place?"
  • (Tom Selleck) "For stability, General."
  • (George Shevtsov) "Only I shall decide what to do with Vichy officials. No, no, it is all quite impossible. I will never accept that you can speak for all of the allies."
  • (Tom Selleck) "The British have, the Canadians, the Australians, the exiled Dutch and Poles. Roosevelt and Churchill have agreed. Come to think of it, you're the only exception."
  • (George Shevtsov) "You will not treat us like Italy. We are not German allies."
  • (Tom Selleck) "In fact the Vichy government is precisely that, General. But -- we will liberate France and treat her as an ally nonetheless. All I ask is that you speak on the radio after my address and call on your people to aid us in their liberation."
  • (George Shevtsov) "Speak after you? Impossible. That would imply that I approve of your program."
  • (Tom Selleck) "I understand. Allow me see you to your car."

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