Flight to Fury (1964)
Jack Nicholson: Jay Wickham
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Quotes
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Jay Wickham : [about the injured old Japanese man] This guy'll never make it.
Joe Gaines : What's that mean?
Jay Wickham : Nothing, why?
Joe Gaines : You think we should dump him?
Jay Wickham : I didn't say anything about that.
Joe Gaines : Yeah, well, don't.
Jay Wickham : What's the matter with you?
Joe Gaines : Nothing. Nothing at all.
Jay Wickham : I didn't say anything about dumping the old Jap. First place, the young guy'd never go for it. Notice how he never takes his eyes off him?
Joe Gaines : No, I never noticed.
Jay Wickham : Like he wants to see when he dies.
Joe Gaines : Get away from me, will you?
Jay Wickham : What?
Joe Gaines : You depress me, Jay. Just keep away from me.
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Jay Wickham : How are we going to get out? That's the point.
Joe Gaines : What are you asking me for?
Jay Wickham : [looking at Lorgren sitting on the floor with his broken leg] Well, I'll tell you one thing, they're not going to let us limp out.
Lorgren : Your single-minded desire for self-preservation is a truly admirable thing, Mr. Wickham. You must have much to live for.
Jay Wickham : I didn't break your leg.
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Joe Gaines : I don't feel much like relying on this guy's hospitality, but it's one hell of lot better than getting my brains blown out escorting a hospital train out of here.
Jay Wickham : Well, I'm not waiting around til this monkey decides to blow my head off. I'm taking the first chance I get and cutting, that's all there is to it.
Destiny Cooper : I haven't done much running lately.
Lorgren : You haven't been jailed lately. It is apparent we cannot sneak out from under their eyes. It seems to me that, even considering my broken leg and Destiny's feminine gait, a well-timed flight is our best chance.
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Jay Wickham : Where are you from, Joe?
Joe Gaines : Scranton... uh, Pennsylvania.
Jay Wickham : I know. I'm from Beaver Falls, Idaho.
Joe Gaines : Right.
[they clink glasses]
Jay Wickham : You, uh, travelling or what?
Joe Gaines : Uh, just travelling.
Jay Wickham : I'm not bugging you? I mean, I don't want to be the kind of guy, you know, buys you a drink and then chews your ear off.
Joe Gaines : Don't worry about it.
Jay Wickham : I guess I, uh, tend to be a little overly friendly at times.
Joe Gaines : Where are you heading from here?
Jay Wickham : Up to Japan. Tokyo, I think.
Joe Gaines : Pretty girls in Japan.
Jay Wickham : You ever want to see the ugliest women in the world, go to Boise, Idaho.
Joe Gaines : Oh, is that right?
Jay Wickham : Yeah, no question about it. I dated the Queen of Idaho one time. She was a throwaway anywhere else. She ran an all-night disc jockey show from a tower in the middle of a drive-in movie. Want another drink?
Joe Gaines : Yeah, thanks.
Jay Wickham : [to the bartender] Two more, please.
[to Joe]
Jay Wickham : Yeah, I dated her, right up there in the tower.
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Jay Wickham : You know anything about death?
Gloria Walsh : Death?
Jay Wickham : Yeah, you know, death.
Gloria Walsh : Are you interested in death?
Jay Wickham : It's something that we all go through, at least once.
Gloria Walsh : Can't deny that.
Jay Wickham : People do.
Gloria Walsh : I don't think so.
Jay Wickham : Man spends millions, maybe billions of dollars a year on booze, drugs, women, religion, psychiartrists, you name it, just to obscure the fact of his ultimate demise.
Gloria Walsh : Well, what should you do, think about it day and night?
Jay Wickham : No, not at all, just give it it's due, that's all. Suppose a man's life is a drag, he makes a pledge, see, I'll stick around 'til I'm 50, then if I don't like it...
[mimes shooting himself in the head]
Jay Wickham : Colors the time leading to 50, right? He's only got to go so far, makes it easier, gives him control.
Gloria Walsh : So?
Jay Wickham : It gives his life form. That's all death is, punctuation.
Gloria Walsh : You're focusing on the punctuation and forgetting the sentence.
Jay Wickham : Interesting choice of words, sentence.
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Jay Wickham : Joe, you want to know something?
Joe Gaines : What?
Jay Wickham : You're probably not going to like it.
Joe Gaines : Well, then don't tell me.
Jay Wickham : I'm getting kind of a boot out of it.
Joe Gaines : What are you talking about?
Jay Wickham : Coming through the crash alive, it makes me feel like, uh, immortal, you know?
Joe Gaines : Are you out of your mind?
Jay Wickham : No, it's true, it's a tremendous feeling.
Joe Gaines : Look, I don't want to hear that crap. Now, we're going to be burying those people in there, let's see you feel immortal on that, buster.
Jay Wickham : Burying them?
Joe Gaines : Yeah, bury them.
Jay Wickham : I can't.
Joe Gaines : What do you mean, you can't?
Jay Wickham : I'm not fooling around with any dead bodies.
Joe Gaines : All right, OK... You dig and we'll bring them out.