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 Trevor Howard Quotation"I've been number two in films for donkey's years." "Noel Coward did do some directing and co-directing. It's just not a polite enough profession to suit him, though." Movie Title: Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980) as Sir Henry: Sir Henry : Generally speaking, if I've eaten something I don't want to see it again. Sir Henry : I never met a man I didn't mutilate. Sir Henry : If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink. Sir Henry : If a thing is worth doing, it is worth forcing someone else to do it. Movie Title: The Adventuress (1946) as Lt. David Baynes: Lt. David Baynes : Where'd you get this? D'you realize you can go to prison for forging an identity card? What made you do it? Bridie Quilty : It's nothing to do with you; it's my business. Lt. David Baynes : It's my name! Small point, perhaps. Bridie Quilty : Oh, isn't it like an Englishman to niggle about a thing like that? Bridie Quilty : Will there be anything else you require, please? It's me half-day. Lt. David Baynes : No, I don't think so, thank you. Bridie Quilty : Thank you. Lt. David Baynes : Oh, I suppose you wouldn't know anyone who could show me around the town this afternoon, by any chance? Bridie Quilty : I would not. Lt. David Baynes : No, I... I only wondered. Bridie Quilty : You're awful quick, aren't you? Lt. David Baynes : Sorry. I've been working very closely with the American Army. Movie Title: Green for Danger (1946) as Dr. Barney Barnes: Dr. Barney Barnes : I gave nitrous oxide at first, to get him under. Inspector Cockrill : Oh yes, stuff the dentist gives you, hmmm -- commonly known as "laughing gas." Dr. Barney Barnes : Used to be -- actually the impurities cause the laughs. Inspector Cockrill : Oh, just the same as in our music halls. Movie Title: Father Goose (1964) as Commander Frank Houghton RAN: Sailor: Mother Goose is requesting a chaplain. Commander Frank Houghton RAN : A chaplain? Good heavens, he's killed her. Sailor: No, sir. They want to get married. Commander Frank Houghton RAN : Married? Goody Two-Shoes and the Filthy Beast? Movie Title: The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) as Lord Cardigan: Lord Cardigan : Paymaster? Paymaster Duberley? That ain't a rank, it's a trade! Movie Title: Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) as Captain Bligh: Captain Bligh : Now don't mistake me. I'm not advising cruelty or brutality with no purpose. My point is that cruelty with purpose is not cruelty - it's efficiency. Then a man will never disobey once he's watched his mate's backbone laid bare. He'll see the flesh jump, hear the whistle of the whip for the rest of his life. Fletcher Christian : I was just thinking, sir, that our little errand for groceries might wind up in a page of naval history if we succeed in negotiating The Horn in the dead of winter. Captain Bligh : Why shouldn't we succeed? Admiral Anderson did. Fletcher Christian : Yes, but of course he didn't choose to attempt it in a ninety-one-foot chamber pot. In any event, his was the only ship to do it and I believe he lost fifty percent of his crew. Captain Bligh : It is a matter of supernatural indifference to me whether you contaminate the natives or the natives contaminate you. I have but one concern - our mission. Let one of you provoke an incident which endangers it and I shall cause that man to curse his mother for giving him birth. Captain Bligh : While our mission remains unfulfilled I'm not in any port, Mr Fryer, I'm command where you may find one day it's always lonely. You see, command allows no intimacies. You can hardly expect unquestioning obedience from last night's partner in a debauch. Captain Bligh : I wonder why an alleged gentleman should give his first loyalty to ordinary seamen. Fletcher Christian : Instead of to other alleged gentlemen? Captain Bligh : Impertinence noted.It shall be logged. Do you care to enlarge the entry? Fletcher Christian : Yes, only with this observation, which I will report to the Admiralty in any case: in my years of service I have never met an officer who inflicted punishment upon men with such incredible relish. Sickening. Captain Bligh : Then go and be sick in your cabin, Mr Christian. I have never met a naval officer who was so proud of a weak stomach. Fletcher Christian : There'll be no more killing aboard this ship, not even Captain Bligh. Captain Bligh : If that's an attempt to earn clemency,I spit on it. Captain Bligh : I'm not leaving you Mr Christian, not ever. Go to the dirtiest little corner of the world I'll be there, right behind you, with a rope in my hand. Captain Bligh : In a civilised soceity, certain lewd intentions towards the female members of one's family would be regarded as a, well, as an insult. Do you follow me? Fletcher Christian : I think so, sir. Captain Bligh : But in Tahiti, the insult lies in the omission of those lewd intentions. Manners that would offend a dock-side harlot seem to be the only acceptable behaviour to King Hitihiti. Captain Bligh : The king's navy will not rest until every mutineer is captured and executed. Wherever you go, wherever you hide a thousand ships will search you out. Captain Bligh : Midshipmen - be a dull navy without them. Now get that slut off my ship. Movie Title: Battle of Britain (1969) as Air Vice Marshal Keith Park: [Park has just landed, to be met by Group Captain Hope] Group Capt. Hope : Bad as we thought, Sir? Air Vice Marshal Keith Park : Worse! Kenley and Biggin are a shambles and the rest not much better. God Knows how many aircraft we'll have in the morning. All because 12 Group couldn't do their stuff. Leigh-Mallory and his big wings! Might as well stay on the ground for all the use they are! Movie Title: Shaka Zulu (1986) as Somerset: Somerset : Since he ascended the throne of the Zulus in 1816, Shaka has forged one of the mightiest empires the African continent has ever known... In less than 6 years, his small, insignificant tribe has risen from obscurity and given its name to an all-powerful nation organized into a fearsome military machine. Shaka is known as a mass murderer - a depraved ogre whose thirst for conquest knows no limits. He has deluged his country with innocent blood, disregarding the most sacred ties of affection, turning father against son, son against brother, in a bloodbath that defies description. Movie Title: Von Ryan's Express (1965) as Maj. Eric Fincham: Maj. Eric Fincham : I once told you Ryan, if only one gets out, it's a victory. Movie Title: Superman (1978) as First Elder: First Elder : [following the trial and sentencing of General Zod and "Company".] An unpleasant duty has been masterfully performed, Jor-El. They have received the fate they deserve: isolation in the Phantom Zone, an eternal living death. Jor-El : A chance for survival, nonetheless... as opposed to us, if we ignore these facts. It's SUICIDE! No, it's worse. It's GENOCIDE...! My friends, you know me to be neither rash nor impulsive. I'm not given to wild, unsupported statements. And I tell you we must evacuate this planet immediately! First Elder : [after the Council of Elders has voted unanimously against Jor-El's desperate proposal] Any attempt by you to create a climate of fear and panic among the populace must be deemed by us an act of insurrection. Jor-El : You'd accuse ME of insurrection? Has it now become a crime to cherish life? First Elder : You would be banished to endless imprisonment in the Phantom Zone: the eternal void which you yourself discovered. Movie Title: The Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse (1980) as Jack Cartwright: Jack Cartwright : [as Grice drives full speed toward the club] If we're going for a drink, I want to be alive to enjoy it! Movie Title: The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977) as Sir Hector: Sir Hector : Damn and blast my sow of a wife, God bless her! Crumble : And all who sail in her. Dr. Crippen : I bear both good tidings and bad tidings. First, your wife is dead. Sir Hector : And the bad tidings? Sir Hector : She just lost her seventh husband. Beau Geste : Lost or mislaid? Movie Title: The Third Man (1949) as Calloway: Calloway : You don't know what you're mixing in. Why don't you catch the next plane? Martins : I'll catch the next plane as soon as I get to the bottom of this. Calloway : Death's at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals. Martins : You mind if I use that line in my next Western? Martins : Callahan! Calloway : Calloway, not Callahan. I'm English, not Irish. Martins : I guess nobody really knew Harry like he did... like I did. He was the best friend I ever had. Calloway : That sounds like a cheap novelette. Martins : Well, I write cheap novelettes. Calloway : Next time we'll use a foolproof coffin. Calloway : We should have dug deeper than a grave. Movie Title: The Missionary (1982) as Lord Ames: Lord Ames : I once had a chap before me who'd been caught stealing from the mess. I ordered every alternate fingernail to be removed, and you know, I still get a card from him every Christmas. Lord Ames : You see, what I think is wrong with the country today is that there aren't enough people chained up. [Writing to The Times on how to treat the poor.] Lord Ames : Are there two "l"s in "disembowelment"? |
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