The Siege of Jadotville Quotes

  • General McEntee: Carry out your orders, commandant. Hold your ground. Defend Jadotville.

    Pat Quinlan: With what? A firm tone?

  • Pat Quinlan: Not many Frenchmen like German tacticians. It only took them two weeks to take over your entire country.

  • Charles Cooley: What's it like getting shot?

    Pat Quinlan: I wouldn't recommend it.

  • Rene Faulques: You do realize that you are outnumbered by a factor of twenty.

    Pat Quinlan: I see a lot of dead men here. None of them are mine.

  • Pat Quinlan: We'll hold out until our last bullet is spent. We could do with that whiskey.

  • Sgt. Jack Prendergast: We've used every bullet twice. What do we do now?

  • [first lines]

    Pat Quinlan: [narrating] I once heard a man say that, in Africa, the sun is like a furnace that either melts you or forges you.

  • Pat Quinlan: [briefing new troops] Nobody has shot at you, tried to kill you before. You are war virgins.

  • Madame LaFontagne: This place killed my husband. Radiation. The two bombs that America used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from the mines here in Jadotville.

  • John Gorman: I felt scared.

    Pat Quinlan: It's only natural.

    John Gorman: No, that's not it. I was scared. But then I liked it. The killing.

    Pat Quinlan: It's what you're trained to do.

    John Gorman: *You* didn't like it.

    Pat Quinlan: Each man reacts differently to killing another man. None of us have done this before. Talk to me in a few days.

The Siege of Jadotville

Director: Richie Smyth

Language: English,Irish Gaelic,French,Spanish Release date: October 7, 2016