The Dawn Patrol (1938)

Donald Crisp: Phipps

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• Phipps : [Opens package dropped by enemy plane]  It's his helmet and goggles. It means a very gallant gentleman died this afternoon. And for what? What have all these deaths accomplished? So many fine chaps have died in this war and are going to die in future wars.

  [pause] 

  Phipps : That's all, gentlemen.

• Lt. 'Scotty' Scott : It's a funny war.

  Phipps : [sadly]  No, not awfully.

• Phipps : [Whimsically after reading a letter from home]  You know, Brand, it'd be awfully nice if we had a dog around here in the mornings to come in and cheer us up.

  Phipps : [Whistling and talking to an imagined dog]  Here! Come on, fella! Come on here! Mind your muddy feet. Come on!

  Maj. Brand : [Brand has been deep in thought and only now realizes Phipps is talking]  What you doing?

  Phipps : Uh, the dog.

  Maj. Brand : Dog? What dog? Where?

  Phipps : No, I say it would be nice if we had a dog to come in here in the mornings to sort of cheer us up, you know? And...

  [He mutters as he realizes Brand has not been listening to him] 

  Phipps : [He kisses the letter]  I thought it would be sort of cozy, you know.

  Maj. Brand : [Brand eventually realizes what Phipps has been saying and he smiles faintly]