A scene from Escape from New York 1981
Bob Hauk

[reading Plissken's file]

S.D. Plissken... American, Lieutenant: Special Forces Unit "Black Light". Two Purple Hearts, Leningrad and Siberia. Youngest man to be decorated by the President. Then you robbed the Federal Reserve Depository... life sentence, New York maximum security penitentiary. I'm about to kick your ass out of the world, war hero...

Snake Plissken

[calmly strikes a match against Hauk's desk to light his cigarette and in a bored tone of voice]

Who're you?

Bob Hauk

Hauk, Police Commissioner.

Snake Plissken

Bob Hauk...

Bob Hauk

Special Forces Unit "Texas Thunder"... we heard of you too, Plissken.

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Bob Hauk Lee Van Cleef More Bob Hauk quotes →
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