The Guardian (2006)

Actors: Beau Flynn (producer), Armyan Bernstein (producer), Derek Wayne Johnson (actor), Ashton Kutcher (actor), Thomas Rosales Jr. (actor), Sela Ward (actress), J.D. Evermore (actor), Neal McDonough (actor), Ron Dean (actor), Kevin Costner (actor), Ray Donn (actor), John Heard (actor), Clancy Brown (actor), Dennis Virkler (editor), Trevor Rabin (composer),

Plot: Ben Randall is a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. When his crew is killed in an accident and his marriage ends, his commander tells him he wants Randall to go to the Academy to train other rescue swimmers. He encounters a guy named Jake who's a little cocky because he was once a swim champion. So Ben puts him through the wringer to see if he can handle it.

Keywords: accident, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, alaska, alcohol, bar, bar-fight, bartender, bering-strait, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, bully
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama,
Taglines: When lives are on the line, sacrifice everything. So Others May Live How Do You Decide Who Lives Or Who Dies? Risk Everything

Quotes:

Billy Hodge: [after hitting his teacher in the face] United States Coast Guard I'm here to help you.

Jake Fischer: I won't let go!::Ben Randall: I know.

Ben Randall: [refering the the accident that killed Jake's friends] I've read the report Jake. Your blood alcohol level was zip that night. I'm guessing there was a flip for designated driver, you lost.::Jake Fischer: I guess that just makes it all go away, huh?::Ben Randall: No, it doesn't make it all right, it just makes it an accident. At least that's how it reads. You were 16 years old Jake. I'm not your priest, but if I was I think maybe you deserve a pass.::Jake Fischer: You're giving me a pass. You think you know everything, with your psychobabble bullshit. Why am I here? Why are you here, huh? Your too old to be doing this, you washed up here. You don't want to be teaching a bunch of kids in a pool, am I right? I don't give an eff what you read or who you talked to. You don't know about me. [now yelling] I have me under control.::Ben Randall: I can see that. The only difference between you and me is that I don't wear the ones I lost on my arm. I know where your at Jake. I'm there myself. I ask myself everyday why I was the one who survived.::Jake Fischer: And?::Ben Randall: And if I can't answer that for me, I'm certainly not going to try to answer that for you. Have a seat. I want you to start being a member of this team. The team you have now. You have a gift Jake. You're the best swimmer to come through this program, hands down, by far, and you've got a whole record board to prove it. But you know what I see when I look at it? I see someone fast enough who's going to get there first. I see someone strong enough who's going to last. I see someone who can save a life maybe no one else could. You really want to honor then initials on your arm? Then honor your gift. Save the ones you can Jake. The rest, you've got to let go.

Ben Randall: Save the ones you can Jake. The rest, you've got to let go.

Ben Randall: There will come a time when you might have to decide who lives and dies out there. It's a terrible responsibility but it's one you will have to make as a rescue swimmer. The bigger reality is, its also something you are going to have to live with as a human being. There will come a time when you will have to say no. The most important person to keep alive is yourself. You'll be facing crews from 5 to 20 all saying 'save me, save me.' They're looking for a miracle. How old are you Hodge?::Billy Hodge: 24.::Ben Randall: At 24 years old you have to become that miracle. You have to find a way to be that miracle.

Jake Fischer: You're going to kick me out for defending the Coast Guard?::Ben Randall: The Coast Guard has been around for 200 years. I doubt a couple of knuckleheads like yourself are going to defend it.

Ben Randall: I've been trying to peel the layers back for a while now and I, I just don't get it. I mean this kind of work seems a little remedial for someone like yourself. A big swim champ offered to every Ivy League, you give it up to be here with us. Why?::Jake Fischer: I'm here to save lives Senior Chief.::Ben Randall: I spoke to your coach Jake.::Jake Fischer: You spoke to my coach?::Ben Randall: Yeah I spoke with your coach. Something in your file just kept hanging me up. You will the state championship your freshman and sophomore years then you don't swim the next two. I'm just a public school guy, so uh pardon me, but it didn't add up until now. [shows a newspaper with a headline of "swim team killed in fiery crash - one survivor"] Kick Holloway, 100 medley winner, thrown through the passenger window. Abe Ikeman, first team All-American, lungs crushed. Carl Sandables, 50 meter freestyle champ, made it all the way to the hospital, died of internal bleeding.::Jake Fischer: I guess you just know everything then.::Ben Randall: I know what it's like to lose a team.::Jake Fischer: Yeah, what about living in a small town where everyone thinks you killed their brother, or their son, or their best friend? You know about that?::Ben Randall: The kind of small town where everyone waves at each other, just not to you.

Jake Fischer: Does this mean you're not going to fail me.::Ben Randall: For what? Backing up a buddy at a bar? Then I've got to bigger problems than you.

Jake Fischer: Hey, there was a question I wanted to ask you back as school, but I didn't. When you can't save 'em all, how do you choose who lives?::Ben Randall: It's probably different for everybody Jake. Its kind of simple for me though. I just, I take the first one I come to or the weakest one in the group and then I swim as fast and as hard as I can for as long as I can. And the sea takes the rest.::Jake Fischer: Do you think I'm ready?::Ben Randall: I'm not your teacher anymore Jake. I'm just your fellow swimmer.::Jake Fischer: That's not exactly the answer I was looking for there.::Ben Randall: If I did not think you were ready, I would not put you in the Bering Sea

Ben Randall: I can't sleep.::Maggie McGlone: Of course you can't. Your wife left you, your best friend died; you sound like a damn country song. If you had a dog, he'd be run over by now.

Stealth (2005)

Actors: Ava DuVernay (miscellaneous crew), John Charles (miscellaneous crew), Neal H. Moritz (producer), Sam Shepard (actor), Rob Cohen (director), Mike Medavoy (producer), John Waters (actor), Jessica Biel (actress), Joe Morton (actor), Jamie Foxx (actor), Nicholas Hammond (actor), Josh Lucas (actor), Richard Roxburgh (actor), Craig Hosking (miscellaneous crew), Todd Grossman (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In the near future, the Navy develops a fighter jet piloted by an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war...

Keywords: aerial-combat, aerial-drone, aerial-refueling, air-raid, air-to-surface-missile, aircraft-carrier, aircraft-carrier-landing, airplane-accident, airplane-crash, airplane-shot-down
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: Fear The Sky

Quotes:

EDI: Talon 3, leave me alone.::Lt. Henry Purcell: Leave you alone? I'm trying to help you!

Lt. Kara Wade: [as Wade, Gannon, and Purcell are running out to their jets] I'm out first, boys.::Lt. Henry Purcell: I'm on that ass!::Lt. Kara Wade: [Standing to the right side of the exit hatch to let Purcell and Gannon past her] After you, ladies. [Gannon strokes under her chin and she playfully snaps her jaw back at him]

Lt. Ben Gannon: Captain Marshfield? EDI, did you just turn off Captain Marshfield?::EDI: [brief pause] There was nothing left to say.

Capt. George Cummings: [as Purcell turns around in shock over getting a fourth wingman in the squadron] What's the problem, Purcell? You look like you just been hit in the gut.::Lt. Henry Purcell: Well, for one, Captain, we've been flying together for a long time, and it's good; but FOUR is an unlucky number.::Capt. George Cummings: Unlucky?::Lt. Henry Purcell: Yeah! It's not a prime number. See, prime numbers can only be divided by one or itself. THREE is a prime number. The Holy Trinity? The thesis and antithesis that come together to form the synthesis...::Capt. George Cummings: Look! This is not a seminar on metaphysics, son. This is the U.S. Navy. Now we ship out Wednesday at oh five hundred. Dismissed.::Lt. Henry Purcell: Okay. IF he'd let me finish I was gonna say Three's Company, Three Stooges, Three Musketeers, three-peat, three strikes you're out, "Three Times a Lady".::Lt. Kara Wade: Three dimensions?::Lt. Henry Purcell: Three Blind Mice.::Lt. Ben Gannon: Menage a trois. Don't forget that one. Right?

[last lines]::Lt. Kara Wade: Just tell me you love me, you pussy.

Lt. Kara Wade: You came back for me.

Lt. Henry Purcell: If I have to, I will blast your aero-elastic ass right out of the sky.

Lt. Ben Gannon: Don't think, drink!

Lt. Ben Gannon: [referring to the possible future replacement of human pilots with artificially-intelligent aircraft] War's terrible. It's meant to be terrible, and if it stops being terrible, what's going to stop us?

Lt. Ben Gannon: Shit, man. I didn't want for this to happen. I tried for it not to happen; Navy's got rules about it not happening but it's like this force that's got hold of me. [pause] I love her.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

Actors: Angelina Jolie (actress), Sadie Frost (producer), Jude Law (actor), Jon Avnet (producer), Laurence Olivier (actor), Aurelio De Laurentiis (producer), Giovanni Ribisi (actor), Steve Morphew (actor), Bai Ling (actress), Gwyneth Paltrow (actress), Omid Djalili (actor), William Hope (actor), Michael Gambon (actor), Ed Shearmur (composer), Jude Law (producer),

Plot: In 1939, an intrepid reporter in New York City makes a connection between the story she's covering-- of famous scientists suddenly disappearing around the world, and a recent attack on the city by giant robots. Determined to find the solution to these happenings, she seeks the help of her ex-boyfriend, the captain of a mercenary legion of pilots. The two are investigating the case when the robots attack the city again, though in a stroke of luck, Sky Captain's right hand man is able to locate their source. They then set off on an adventure in search of the evil mastermind behind these schemes, who is bent on creating a utopia and destroying the current world.

Keywords: 1930s, abandoned-mine, acid, aerial-combat, air-battle, air-raid, air-strip, airfield, airplane, airplane-accident
Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: The world will tremble this September! Join the Resistance The world will tremble. Who will save us? Without Warning. Without Mercy. The Battle for Tomorrow is About to Begin...

Quotes:

[Sky Captain flies over the sidewalk where Polly is standing]::Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Polly.::[Polly snaps a picture of Sky Captain flying overhead]::Polly Perkins: Joe.

[first lines]::Hindenburg announcer: Attention. Please prepare for docking procedure.

Polly Perkins: [after Joe wouldn't let her go back to get her case of film that was in cave that was about to explode] You should've let me go back for my film.::Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: You're right, I should've.

[after Dex unplugs the Telsa coils that previously electrocuted Dr. Kessler]::Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Is it safe?::Dex Dearborn: Well, there's only one way to find out. [Sky Captain and Polly cross the threshold together and are relieved to be unharmed] I meant throw something.

Dex Dearborn: I thought you said this thing was big? Can I have it?::Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: You find out where it came from and I'll buy you one for Christmas.

Polly Perkins: It's been three years, Joe. You're not still mad at me, are you? Can't even remember what we were fighting about.::Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: You sabotaged my plane.::Polly Perkins: Right.::Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: I spent six months in a Manchurian slave camp because of you. They were gonna cut off my fingers.::Polly Perkins: Joe, for the last time, I didn't sabotage your damn airplane!

Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Come in, Dex.::Dex Dearborn: Look, whatever you do, don't shoot!::Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Er... OK!::Dex Dearborn: You shot it, didn't you?::Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Yes.

Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: It's a mobile airstrip. Dex had a hand in designing it. It's kind of a secret. You can keep a secret, can't you, Polly?::Polly Perkins: [raising her camera to photograph it] Yeah. I can keep a secret.

Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: It's a dead end. Some short cut!::Polly Perkins: That's... not supposed to be there.

Polly Perkins: You mean you knew this the whole time and you let me think we were going to crash? I thought we were gonna die! You should have said something!::Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan: Look, Polly, it was your idea to tag along, not mine. If you can't take it, that's not my fault.

Operation Delta Force 3: Clear Target (1998)

Actors: Trevor Short (producer), Stuart Wentzel (miscellaneous crew), Ian Yule (actor), Avi Lerner (producer), Danny Lerner (producer), Danny Lerner (writer), Greg Collins (actor), Brian O'Shaughnessy (actor), John Carson (actor), Jim Fitzpatrick (actor), Danny Dimbort (producer), Danny Keogh (actor), Ron Smerczak (actor), Patrick Lyster (actor), Mark Roper (director),

Genres: Action,

Cinderella Liberty (1973)

Actors: Mark Rydell (director), Betty A. Griffin (miscellaneous crew), Mark Rydell (producer), David Proval (actor), Burt Young (actor), John Williams (composer), Sally Kirkland (actress), Marsha Mason (actress), Don Calfa (actor), Dabney Coleman (actor), Bruno Kirby (actor), Eli Wallach (actor), James Caan (actor), Phill Norman (miscellaneous crew), Patrick Kennedy (editor),

Plot: A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.

Keywords: baby-name, based-on-novel, billiards, dentist, father-figure, female-nudity, fishing, friendship, illegitimate-son, navy
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: She's 32. She drinks too much. She hustles pool. She's got a 10-year old mulatto son. She's got a different boyfriend every night. She's in trouble. And he's in love. A movie for every woman who thinks she can never fall in love again!

Quotes:

Doug: You are so dumb you make me sick, whitey.::John Baggs Jr.: [fondly] Well I'm getting kinda fond of you too, spook.

Lynn Forshay: Let me give you one piece of advice, one old salt to another... Ah, to hell with advice.

Maggie Paul: Why is it everybody else gets chicken and I always get the feathers?

John Baggs Jr.: We love each other.::Maggie Paul: Love is shit with sugar on it.

John Baggs Jr.: Would you call yourself a "Champagne cocktail-sippin', cock-teasin', downtown barroom whore"?::Maggie Paul: [bursting into tears] Second generation!

Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)

Actors: Mary Benoit (actress), Hank Mann (actor), Mike Mahoney (actor), Hugh Sanders (actor), Stuart Holmes (actor), Jerry Lewis (actor), Jerry Lewis (actor), John Indrisano (actor), Jerry Lewis (actor), Claude Akins (actor), Don Haggerty (actor), Harry Cheshire (actor), Fritz Feld (actor), Mary Treen (actress), Dina Merrill (actress),

Plot: John Paul Steckler was the Junior Officer aboard a destroyer when WWII ended. He gets stuck with the job of sailing the ship to the states to be decommissioned. Now years latter, no one knows where the ship is. He has a choice. Find the ship, or pay for it, Now! If only Prudence, to whom he just got married, could understand why he isn't there for his Honeymoon.

Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: How can an officer in his right mind "misplace" a fully-equipped destroyer escort? Officer and gentleman by Act of Congress -- man, somebody goofed! Wedding night or not...Jerry's gotta find his "mislaid" ship! Out on a limb...looking for the destroyer he "misplaced"!

Quotes:

Ens. Rita J. Benson: Lieutenant, I know you're the victim of one of the biggest boo-boos in the history of the U.S. Navy.::John Paul Steckler VII: Yeah, I am.::Ens. Rita J. Benson: I've looked over your record and it's spotless. You've always had the utmost concern for government property.::John Paul Steckler VII: W-well I always DID try my best - except maybe just that one time w-when I painted my seabag all red and cut the two holes in the bottom for my feet.::Ens. Rita J. Benson: Your feet?::John Paul Steckler VII: Well, it was a Halloween party, y' see. I went as a skinless frankfurter.

Ens. Rita J. Benson: You can take your shoes off, if you'd like.::John Paul Steckler VII: Oh, thank you. I won't be as tall, though.

John Paul Steckler VII: Now hear this! Now hear this! I want a tight ship! I want an efficient ship! 'Cause an efficient ship is a happy ship! And a happy ship is a tight ship! And I want everyone to be efficient, happy and tight!

Japanese Officer: Sunrise. Time you die.::John Paul Steckler VII: Before breakfast?

Vice Adm. Philo Tecumseh Bludde: This man is the shrewdest, cleverest undercover agent we've ever been up against.::Ens. Rita J. Benson: But, sir, I think he's too dumb to be that smart to play it that stupid.::Vice Adm. Philo Tecumseh Bludde: Say that again.

Operator: I'm sorry, madam. Your party's been disconnected.::Prudence Trabert Steckler: MY party never got started.

Prudence Trabert Steckler: John, how COULD you!::John Paul Steckler VII: It wasn't easy!

Wing and a Prayer (1944)

Actors: Billy Gilbert (actor), Jimmie Dodd (actor), Blake Edwards (actor), Dana Andrews (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Richard Crane (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), Chet Brandenburg (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Harry Carter (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), George Chandler (actor), Reed Hadley (actor), Don Ameche (actor),

Plot: An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway. All the men have their individual worries and concerns, but become increasingly frustrated at their avoidance of combat, for reasons unknown to them. But in the end, all get their chance to fight.

Keywords: aircraft-carrier, based-on-true-story, decoy, movie-star, navy, oscar-statuette, u.s.-navy, urban-legend-vector, world-war-two
Genres: Action, Drama, War,
Taglines: MIGHTY DRAMA OF AIRCRAFT CARRIER X (original ad - all caps) THE MOST DANGEROUS MISSION IN THE WAR! (original ad - all caps)

Hello, Annapolis (1942)

Actors: Phil Brown (actor), Stanley Brown (actor), Tom Brown (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Donald Curtis (actor), Boyd Davis (actor), Eddie Dew (actor), Sam Flint (actor), William Forrest (actor), Jack Gardner (actor), Thurston Hall (actor), Gladden James (actor), Charles Jordan (actor), Robert Kellard (actor),

Plot: Bill Arden and Paul Herbert sign up at the titular Naval academy to win the affection of Doris Henley. Bill finds that he hates it. It is not until Bill is badly burned saving his rival Paul's life that he wins respect and changes his mind.

Keywords: annapolis-maryland, navy
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: Go Adventuring And Romancing With America's Admirals In The Making!

Sailor's Lady (1940)

Actors: Ralph Dunn (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Dana Andrews (actor), Charles D. Brown (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Jack Cohn (actor), Don 'Red' Barry (actor), Buster Crabbe (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor),

Plot: Sailor (Hall) is going to marry his girlfriend (Kelly) when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.

Keywords: navy, sailor
Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: 50,000 SAILORS... Can't Go Wrong!

Follow the Fleet (1936)

Actors: Frank Jenks (actor), Tony Martin (actor), George Magrill (actor), Fred Astaire (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), Harry Beresford (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Billy Dooley (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Huntley Gordon (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Frank Mills (actor),

Plot: When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing: Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her; and despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.

Keywords: astaire-and-rogers, audition, ballroom-dancing, based-on-play, battleship, dance, dance-contest, dance-hall, dancer, dancing
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: In the Super-Dreadnought of Musical Shows Fun Aboard! (1953 re-release)

Quotes:

Bake Baker: I don't often try to apologize 'cause I seldom make any mistakes.

Bake Baker: Gosh, you're glad to see me.

[Bake pays only for himself]::Cashier: Don'tcha friends dance?::Bake Baker: Nah. They're underage. I hold 'em on my lap.

Sherry Martin: It isn't really that gentlemen prefer blondes. It's just that we look dumber.

Bake Baker: Let's kiss and make up.::Sherry Martin: No, let's just make up. That'll give you something to work for.

Sherry Martin: Well, I don't see any Admiral stripes on you!::Bake Baker: I like to go incognito just to mingle with the boys.

Bake Baker: Sherry tells me you're leaving. Well, that's probably the wisest thing to do. Run away! All this stuff about fighting for your man and all that makes things so complicated. Now, if all girls would just give up and run back to Bellport, then we'd definitely see the end of family life, little Junior would remain just an idea, and every man would burn his own toast. I thank you!

Bake Baker: [about Bilge] He's stuck on that Iris Manning. Say, what's she like?::Sherry Martin: Anything in a uniform.

Kitty Collins: [to sailor trying to hit on her] Tell me, little boy, did you get a whistle or baseball bat with that suit?