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U-571 (film) Quotes

U-571 (film) is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . U-571 ended its run in 1970.

It features Dino De Laurentiis as producer, Richard Marvin (composer) in charge of musical score, and Oliver Wood (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

U-571 (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of U-571 (film) is 116 minutes long. U-571 (film) is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The cast includes: Harvey Keitel as Chief Klough, T. C. Carson as Eddie, Matthew McConaughey as Lieutenant Andrew Tyler, and Dave Power as Seaman Charles 'Tank' Clemens.

U-571 (film) Quotes

Matthew McConaughey as Lieutenant Andrew Tyler

  • (Matthew McConaughey) "He torpedoed me, Chief. Nine months aboard the S-33 doing the best job I know how. Doing everything once, and then doing it again just to make sure I didn't miss anything the first time."
  • (Harvey Keitel) "You'll get your chance sir. There's other commands in the navy."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "What the hell are you doing, huh? This is NOT a God damn democracy."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "I didn't get my boat."
  • (Unnamed) "I know."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "And with all due respect, sir, there's only one way that could've happened and that's if you withheld your recomendation."
  • (Unnamed) "That's right. I just don't think your ready."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "What do you mean I'm not ready? Sir, I have worked my tail off on the S-33. I'm qualified in every area and then some. What executive officer has higher marks then I do, Captain?"
  • (Unnamed) "Andy. Your just not ready to take on a command of your own."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Mister Hirsch, step away from that bulkhead. The shockwave from one of these explosions could snap your spine."
  • (Unnamed) "Last night at 0300 hours a British destroyer reported depth charging and sinking a German U-boat. However, sometime thereafter, Allied direction finding station triangulated a coded enemy radio signal to this position here near the chop line."
  • (Unnamed) "We believe the U-boat was disabled, not sunk, and is drifting eastward on a four-knot current. Now, French resistance reported a resupply submarine sailed from the Lorient U-boat pens yesterday afternoon with engine parts and mechanics. Now, we believe it's gonna rendezvous with the disabled U-boat. On board that U-boat is this."
  • (Unnamed) "A typewriter?"
  • (Unnamed) "An Enigma code machine. It allows the German navy to communicate with it's submarines in secret, and our inability to decipher their messages is costing us this war. Mr. Coonan?"
  • (Unnamed) "All right. This is basically a Trojan Horse operation. The S-33 will rendezvous with the U-boat, posing as the German resupply sub. I will lead a boarding party dressed in Kriegsmarine uniforms to the enemy submarine. We will take it by force and secure the Enigma. Any German survivors will be transferred to the S-33 and the U-boat will be scuttled."
  • (Unnamed) "The German resupply submarine will arrive at the rendezvous and will assume that the U-boat succumbed to its wounds and sank. The Germans must never suspect we have the Enigma. That is vital."
  • (Unnamed) "So it's a race?"
  • (Unnamed) "Yes, effectively."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Who's the boarding party?"
  • (Unnamed) "Well, since you're the X.O., you sir. Mr. Emmett, Mr. Larson, Mr. Hirsch and nine of your ship's company. The captain, of course, will remain onboard the S-33."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Mr. Coonan, our boys are submarine sailors, not combat marines."
  • (Unnamed) "The boys onboard that U-boat are sailors too. Your men'll be ready, Lieutenant. I'll train them myself."
  • (Unnamed) "You've come to the right boat."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Tank, you alive back there?"
  • (Dave Power) "Yes, sir."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Good. Port ahead two-thirds."
  • (Dave Power) "Port ahead two-thirds. Aye, sir."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Tank -- can you fix the stern tube?"
  • (Dave Power) "I don't know, Mr. Tyler."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "I don't want an "I don't know." Can you fix the torpedo tube? Yes -- or no?"
  • (Dave Power) "Yes, sir. I think I can."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Thank you, Tank. Chief, make depth 1-6-0 meters."
  • (Harvey Keitel) "That's more than five hundred feet."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Take us down, Chief."
  • (Harvey Keitel) "Aye, sir. One-six-zero meters. Twenty degrees dive both planes."
  • (Unnamed) "Twenty degrees dive, aye, sir."
  • (T. C. Carson) "Mr. Tyler, sir, uh, do you plan on going up against a destroyer with only one fish in the tube and busted motor?"
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Yes, I am, Eddie."
  • (Unnamed) "How wise is that, Lieutenant?"
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Not very. But have a look. Chief."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "There is no way a two-knot submarine can get in firing position against a thirty-knot destroyer unless we go deep. At one hundred sixty meters, we can shoot out a bunch of junk from the forward tubes. It will resurface and create a debris field. Now the destroyer's going to go to the center of that debris field, shut off its engines to make it real nice and quiet and do an acoustic search to make sure we're dead. But we're not. See, we're here, on our way up to periscope depth. All right, principle of ascent velocity. We let our positive buoyancy pull us up and away from the destroyer. And when we surface we'll be showing it our ass at seven hundred yards. That is a pefect setup for a stern shot on a stationary target. Boom. It don't get much prettier than that."
  • (Harvey Keitel) "All right, Mr. Tyler. Passing 1-3-0 meters."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Very well. Rabbit, I need you to load Mazzola's body into tube three and put an escape jacket on him to make sure he floats."
  • (Unnamed) "Wanna shoot him out like garbage?"
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "His body is gonna save our lives."
  • (Unnamed) "I'll say a few words for him."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Who's the boarding party?"
  • (Unnamed) "Well, since you're the XO, you sir. Mr. Emmett, Mr. Larson, Mr. Hirsh and nine of your ships company. Captain, of course, will remain onboard the S-33."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Mister, our boys are submarine sailors, not combat marines."
  • (Unnamed) "Boys onboard that U-boat are sailors, too. Your men will be ready, Lieutenant. I'll train them myself."
  • (Unnamed) "You're a first rate X.O., Andy. A damn good submariner. I know the men like you."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "I'd give my life for any one of them, sir."
  • (Unnamed) "I know you would. I'm not questioning your bravery. The question is: what about their lives? You and Mr. Emmett are good friends. You went to the Academy together. Would you be willing to sacrifice his life? Or what about some of the younger enlisted men? I know a lot of those guys look up to you like a big brother. You willing to lay their lives on the line?"
  • (Unnamed) "You see? you hesitate. But as a captain, you can't. You have to act. If you don't, you put the entire crew at risk. Now that's the job. It's not a science. You have to be able to make hard decisions based on imperfect information. Asking men to carry out orders that may result in their deaths. And if you're wrong, you suffer the consequences. If you're not prepared to make those decisions, without pause, without reflection, then you've got no business being a submarine captain."
  • (Unnamed) "Where's your date, Andy? It's not like you to arrive stagged like this."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "I'm afraid I couldn't get one on such short notice ma'am."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "His body is gonna to save our lives."
  • (Unnamed) "Mr. Tyler."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Yeah."
  • (Unnamed) "If you can't take out that destroyer, the danger is not that some of us may die. It's that some of us may live. These men have seen and heard things that must not be revealed to the enemy; our secrets, such as our radar capabilities, and our understanding of German encryption. If we fall into German hands alive, we will be tortured without mercy. Either you succeed in sinking that ship, or you see to it that none of us survive to be captured."
  • (Unnamed) "Mister Tyler, please -- don't tell the other guys I'm half German. They'll hate me."
  • (Matthew McConaughey) "Yeah, sure thing, Wentz."

T. C. Carson as Eddie

  • (T. C. Carson) "It's the first time you ever seen a black man ain't it -- get used to it."

Harvey Keitel as Chief Klough

  • (Harvey Keitel) "You're the skipper now. And the skipper always knows what to do whether he does or not."
  • (Harvey Keitel) "What the hell are those yardbirds doing to my boat?"
  • (Harvey Keitel) "Well, Mister Tyler, if you ever need a chief, I'll go to sea with you anytime."
  • (Harvey Keitel) "Those Krauts sure know how to build a boat."

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