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ROBERTS: How did you get in the Navy? How did you get on our side? You ignorant, arrogant, ambitious...! Keeping men in prison... ...'cause you got a palm tree for the work they did! l don't know which l hate worse, you or that other malignant growth-- How'd you ever get to be commander of a ship? l realize in war time they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel... ...but where'd they ever scrape you up?

MORTON: There's just one thing left for you, Mister. A general court-martial!

ROBERTS: Fine, court-martial me! l'm asking for it! lf l can't get transferred, l'll get court-martialed! l'm fed up! You'll need a witness. Call your messenger. l'll say it over again in front of him. Go on, call him. You want me to call him?

"Mr. Roberts," by Joshua Logan