If only once, just once, we could get ahead of the game, beat the number of casualties...
6 seconds sound clip from the Battle Circus (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:50:49 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- You never did it before. Why last night?
- Well, I don't know. Maybe the war's catching up with me... Its ugliness, stupidity, futility...
- Yeah, but other jobs get done. Did it ever occur to you, we never catch up to our job?
- If only once, just once, we could get ahead of the game, beat the number of casualties...
- Ahh. It's an unusual generation we're living in. Three world wars in one lifetime.
- Ha. I don't know. Maybe whiskey's as much a part of our life as war.
- Yes?
- Right. I'll take care of it. What is it?
- No, thank you. I'd rather stand, sir.
[...]
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Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Major Jed Webbe), June Allyson (Lt. Ruth McCara), Keenan Wynn (Sgt. Orvil Statt), Robert Keith (Lt. Col. Hilary Whalters), Adele Longmire (Lt. Jane Franklin)
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