Capt. Bart Mancuso My Morse is so rusty, I could be sending him dimensions on playmate of the month.
3rd most-quoted character in The Hunt for Red October (1990): in 8 of its 59 quotes
Most scenes with: Capt. Marko Ramius (2), Jack Ryan (2), Seaman Jones (2)
Central Intelligence Agency... Now, there's a contradiction in terms.
More lines from Capt. Bart Mancuso
2 quotes Capt. Bart Mancuso Capt. Bart Mancuso The hard part about playing chicken is knowin' when to flinch.
Scenes with Capt. Bart Mancuso
5 scenesConn, sonar! Crazy Ivan!
Capt. Bart Mancuso All stop! Quick quiet!
Beaumont [the ships engines are shut down completely]
What's goin' on?
Russian captains sometime turn suddenly to see if anyone's behind them. We call it "Crazy Ivan." The only thing you can do is go dead. Shut everything down and make like a hole in the water.
Beaumont So what's the catch?
The catch is, a boat this big doesn't exactly stop on a dime... and if we're too close, we'll drift right into the back of him.
Capt. Bart Mancuso All back full.
Lt. Cmdr. Thompson
Captain...
Capt. Bart Mancuso I said, all back full!
Lt. Cmdr. Thompson
Back full, aye.
Capt. Bart Mancuso Conn, aye. All right, Ryan, we just unzipped our fly. Mr. Thompson! Open the outer doors, firing point procedures. Now if that bastard so much as twitches, I'm going to blow him straight to Mars.
Capt. Bart Mancuso [Ramius comments in Russian to Borodin that Mancuso is a "buckaroo". Ryan laughs]
What's so funny?
Ah, the Captain seems to think you're some kind of... cowboy.
Captain Ramius
[in Russian]
You speak Russian.
Captain Ramius
[in English]
It is.
Bill Steiner Hey I think someone just shot a torpedo at us!
Capt. Bart Mancuso No shit, Buckwheat, now get the hell out of here!
Captain Second Rank Vasili Borodin
[Ryan has just steered the Red October into the VK Konovalov's inbound torpedo upon Ramius' stern order]
Torpedo impact, 7, 6, 5 seconds, 4, 3, 2, torpedo impact... now.
Commander Bart Mancuso
[the torpedo slams into the bow of Red October and breaks up on impact]
I'll be damned!
What happened?
Mancuso Combat tactics, Mr. Ryan. By turning into the path of the torpedo, the Captain closed the distance before it could arm itself.
So that's it?
Captain Ramius
Not quite. Right now Tupolev is removing the safety features on all his weapons. He won't make the same mistake twice.
Other characters in The Hunt for Red October
More Scott Glenn characters
J.P. Stiles
The Wise Man/The General/The Bus Driver
Bill Burton
Jack Crawford
Axe
Alan Shepard
Montgomery Wick