“This Land Is Mine” quotes
(1943)
Title This Land Is Mine
Year 1943
Director Jean Renoir
Genre Drama, War
Year 1943
Director Jean Renoir
Genre Drama, War
All actors – Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak, Kent Smith, Una O'Connor, Philip Merivale, Thurston Hall, George Coulouris, Nancy Gates, Ivan F. Simpson, John Donat, Philip Ahlm, Frank Alten, Louis V. Arco, John Banner, Joan Barclay, Trevor Bardette, Linda Bieber, Tommy Bond, Sven Hugo Borg, Leo Bulgakov, Bobby Burns, George M. Carleton, Wheaton Chambers, Gordon B. Clarke, Albert D'Arno, John Dilson, Ludwig Donath, Margaret Fealy, Hans Fuerberg, Babe Green, Ernest Grooney, Mary Halsey, Mildred Hardy, Sam Harris, Ariel Heath, Hallene Hill, Otto Hoffman, Russell Hoyt, Lloyd Ingraham, Elmer Jerome, Casey Johnson, Terrellyne Johnson, P.J. Kelly, David Kirkland, Jeanne Lafayette, Gabriel Lenoff, Oscar Loraine, Theodore Lorch, George MacQuarrie, Hal Malone, Jack Martin, Claire McDowell, Ed McNamara, Freddie Mercer, Hans Moebus, Barbara Moffett, Rudolf Myzet, O'Neill Nolan, William J. O'Brien, Frank O'Connor, Lillian O'Malley, Paul Parry, June Pickerell, Lon Poff, John Rice, Ferdinand Schumann-Heink, Hans Schumm, Lester Sharpe, Jack Shea, Ida Shoemaker, George Sorel, Robert R. Stephenson, Gus Taillon, Walter Thiele, Bob Thom, Nicholas Vehr, Hans von Morhart, Cecil Weston, William Yetter Sr.
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“The truth can't be allowed to live under the occupation. It's too dangerous. The occupation lives upon lies!”
“We will win, Lory, or maybe we'll get shot. But every one of us they execute wins a battle for our cause because he dies a hero.”
“Other men have tried to destroy this book. Maybe this copy will be burned. But they can't burn it out of your memories. You'll have to rewrite it someday. That's why you young people are so important. You're the new nation!”
“It's a very difficult surgical operation. Cut the heart out without killing the patient. The history of our country, however, is a very tough old patient, and we'll do the best we can.”
“The law has the right to forbid only those things that are harmful to society. I must go. I must go, not because I'm harmful to society - which is you - but I am harmful to tyranny.”
“I know that for every German killed, many of our innocent citizens are executed. But, the example of their heroism is contagious. And our resistance grows.”
“After all, what is the United States? A charming cocktail of Irish and Jews. Very spectacular; but very childish. And England? A few old ladies wearing their grandfathers' leather britches.”
“We must stop saying that sabotage is wrong, that it doesn't pay. It does pay! It makes us suffer, starve, and die. But, though it increases our misery, it will shorten our slavery.”
“Sabotage is the only weapon left to a defeated people.”
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