Force 10 from Navarone Quotes

Weaver Now what the hell am I supposed to do with this?

Miller Oh, I don't know. Try and imagine you're a dog. Oh for heaven's sake! On the road, man, on the road!

Weaver I thought you were supposed to pick up dog shit, not spread it around.

Mallory I was sent here to identify a German agent, code name "Nicolai." We are reliably informed that he has infiltrated the People's Resistance Army, and is now known as Capt. Lescovar.

Maj. Petrovitch And having identified this man, what were your further orders?

Mallory I was to eliminate him, sir.

Maj. Petrovitch Eliminate? Don't you mean kill?

Mallory Yes, sir. I do mean kill.

Maj. Petrovitch Do you hear that, Lescovar? The gentlemen from London want us to shoot you. I'm sorry, major. I must admit you are indeed partly right. There was an agent named Nicolai... operating somewhere south of here and also calling himself Lescovar. But he was identified many months ago. And eliminated. The British were informed.

Mallory But London were very specific, sir

Maj. Petrovitch Yes, they frequently are specific... and just as frequently wrong! Lt. Marko, see that these gentlemen... give you a full report on their activities in the Chetnik camp. A specific report.

Maj. Schroeder Ah, tell me what has all this to do with that, uh, suitcase case you keep looking at?

Mallory Well, that suitcase is full of our penicillin.

Maj. Schroeder Oh, indeed. Perhaps I could see some of it?

Mallory Certainly, Major. Open it Miller.

Miller You can't do that here, sir. You'll ruin the lot. You know perfectly well that any contamination will destroy it. It's got to be opened under laboratory conditions.

S/Sgt. John Miller Don't worry, old chap. Been handling this stuff ever since I blew up the nursery with my first chemistry set. Poor old Nanny.

Barnsby What happened to you?

Weaver He bit me in all the excitement. But damn it to hell, we did it, Colonel! We did it!

Barnsby Yes we did, Sergeant! Yes we did!

Miller And a merry Christmas!

Mallory Yes, gentlemen, we did it! But before we can start awarding ourselves Victoria Crosses and Congressional Medals of Honor and so on and so forth and such like... I think I'd better point out that one, we're now on the wrong side of the river. That two, we have no hope whatsoever of rejoining the partisans. That three, this neck of the woods will soon be crawling with very bad-tempered Germans. And that four, I don't think our little genius Sergeant Miller there has even got a box of matches left in his suitcase. And so I think we can take it, gentlemen, that we're going to have a very long walk home.

Taglines Explosive high adventure! A mission more daring than silencing the "Guns".

Mallory Next time, you can play the corpse. You seem pretty handy with that thing, though.

Barnsby Could've been luck.

Barnsby Sorry about Marko.

Lescovar Thank you. It's a risk we all take. He was a brave man and a good friend. Then he got careless.

Mallory You think that big sergeant spotted him as a partisan?

Barnsby I can't buy that. The sergeant wasn't that bright. He saluted you - you're wearing a corporal's uniform. That doesn't rate a salute in the German army.

Mallory Not in anybody's army. Why do you think he saluted you, Lescovar?

Lescovar Perhaps he recognized my natural superiority.

Mallory Yes, perhaps.

Mallory May I talk to you personally, sir?

Maj. Petrovitch You are talking to me personally.

Mallory No, I mean alone.

Maj. Petrovitch No. The People's army does not conduct military business in secret.

Barnsby Now, look. Our experts have been studying that bridge for weeks, and they say it'll blow. I don't know where you learned your job, but I'm talking about the best construction engineers in the business!

Miller Yes. Well, they're probably experts at building things, whereas I'm an expert at blowing them up, and you can take it from me that one would need a good eight hours to make a decent job on that bridge.

Jensen We're tacking you onto Force 10. The code name for an operation for the Allied mission in Yugoslavia.

Mallory Excuse me, sir. What's their objective?

Jensen It's being treated on a need-to-know basis. And you don't need to know.

Mallory Miller, what would happen to the bridge if that central arch were suddenly hit by several million tons of water?

Miller, Barnsby Water?

Mallory I think we've been talking about the wrong target. Remember that dam we passed by on the way up here?

Miller Dam? What sort of dam?

Barnsby It's just up the road, about half a mile that way.

Miller Well, my dear chap, why didn't you say so before? Oh, I could do a tremendous job on the dam! See, with the dam, you've got your natural elements working for you. It's like having an enormous bath - what have you got to do? Pull the plug!

Jensen I'm afraid it's not exactly a masterpiece... but I wonder if you can identify this fellow. Think back to Navarone.

Miller I'd rather not, sir.

Jensen Nicolai? Yes. Let you down a bit, didn't he?

Mallory But what about him? Andrea's people had him shot as a traitor, didn't they?

Jensen Yes, so we were told. In fact, he escaped. He wasn't a traitor. He was a German agent, who we believe is operating now in Yugoslavia with the Partisans, posing as one Captain Lescovar. Now, you both knew Nicolai. In fact, you're the only people we know of can make a positive identification. So I'd like you to go out there and cope.

Miller Cope, sir?

Mallory Kill him.

Taglines The Odds Against Them Were 10,000 to 1...But What the Hell!

Mallory I don't suppose they taught you German at that awful school of yours?

Miller What, instead of Latin? Heaven forbid, old boy.