Boyhood Daze (1957)

Daws Butler: Headquarters Commander, President, Jail Officer, Ralph's Father

Quotes 

• Headquarters : Turn back! You are being pursued by a multitude of unfriendly Martians who all got A's in arithmetic!

• Ralph Phillips : [Ralph Phillips opens a hut where Africans were in progress of boiling his parents, alive]  Boiling parents? I warned you Dackory's.

  Ralph's Father : Doctor Living Son, I presume.

  [spoof of Henry Stanley's historic quote "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" after locating David Livingstone, in Africa, on Friday, October 27th, 1871] 

  Ralph Phillips : Ambush me, will you?

  [combat of gunfire and spears thrown] 

  Ralph Phillips : I hated to have to have to kill them all... but they had to be taught a lesson.

• Headquarters : HQ to Com Ralph... HQ to Com Ralph... Are you all right?

• Unseen Voice : [Ralph imagining he's in a jail cell; whispering]  They're coming to get you, Phillips. They're coming to get you.

  [Ralph crushes out a cigarette he was smoking, gets up and walks unafraid toward the door] 

  Jail Officer : [as he opens the door]  You're gonna have to pay for this, Ralph Phillips!

  Ralph's Father : [Fade back to his father standing at the door of Ralph's bedroom]  Yeah, I'm sorry, son, but we're just gonna have to pay for that window out of our allowance.

• Ralph Phillips : Father, you are too young to play in Africa. Go to your room.

  Ralph's Father : Other fathers get to play in Africa. I never get to do anything.

• Headquarters : Calling Group Commodore Phillips, calling Group Commodore Phillips: Listen here! Turn back! You are being pursued by a multitude of unfriendly Martians who all got A in Arithmetic! And besides too, your... your super-tomic filament is coming loose!

  Ralph Phillips : Comm Ralph to HQ, Comm Ralph to HQ: Now hear this: I've just got to engage these fierceable creatures in mortal combat because what will happen to the Earth if I don't? Over.

• Headquarters : [after Ralph was attacked by the Martians and his plane starts to fall forward in a spin towards the mountains]  HQ to Comm Ralph: Are you alright? Come in, Comm Ralph. HQ calling. HQ calling.

  Ralph Phillips : [recovers from the near fall; bandaged, but is still able to fight with patriotic pride]  Comm Ralph to HQ: bandits at high noon. Going into attack, over.

• Ralph's Father : There's something I have to tell you, Alice.

  Ralph's Mother : You...... you mean?

  Ralph's Father : Yes. This may be it. I hated to tell you, knowing how you worry.

  [Ralph "Livingson" busts through the gates and the natives were stunned and surprised] 

  Ralph's Mother : Saved!

  Ralph's Father : It's our boy, the famous explorer!

  Ralph Phillips : I warned you, Daiquiris, that if I ever caught you boiling parents again, I...

  [Ralph draws sidearms] 

• [the battle with Ralph and the Cannibal Tribesmen ensue offscreen] 

  Ralph Phillips : Oh, ho! Try to ambush me, will ya? Take that!

  [Ralph fires his guns] 

  Ralph Phillips : And that! And maybe that!

  Cannibal Tribesman : [in agony]  Eeg! Argh!

  [Tribesman throws one last spear at Ralph] 

  Ralph Phillips : [Ralph fires one more shot] 

  Ralph Phillips : [wounded and bandaged]  I hated to have to kill them all, but they had to be taught a lesson.