I want you back in MI5 and I want you back now. Billion Dollar Brain 1967 starring Michael Caine & Karl Malden & Ed Begley & Oskar Homolka & Francoise Dorleac & Guy Doleman & Vladek Sheybal & Milo Sperber et al, director Ken Russell, Colonel Ross
For England and for you Colonel Ross I volunteer. ibid.
You are mixed up with an organisation known as the Crusade for Freedom. It is financed by an oil millionaire in Texas by the name of Midwinter. ibid.
Be wise: don’t go to the meeting tomorrow. ibid. Colonel Stok
Oh Lord, give us comfort, give us strength to fight thy godless communist foes and smash them into the ground. ibid. Midwinter
There’s only one important issue in this world today: communism. ibid.
It makes the Pentagon look like a room in the Alamo. ibid.
Men, our cause is just. Our mission is historic. You are already heroes. With God on our side how can we fail? ibid. Midwinter
People have no idea about the shitstorm that’s about to go down. Cleanskin 2012 starring Sean Bean & Charlotte Rampling & Abhin Galeya & Tuppence Middleton & Tom Burke & James Fox & Michelle Ryan & Peter Polycarpou & Sam Douglas et al, director Hadi Hajaig, opening scene fat bloke in bedroom
We must rise up against these Western pigs who occupy our lands. Who come at us with smiles. ibid. Muslim preacher
It’s the same shit every day. ibid. him to her
The Americans are bringing us all to the brink. Blunt: The Fourth Man 1986 starring Ian Richardson & Michael Williams & Anthony Hopkins & Albert Welling & Rosie Kerslake & Emma Cottrell et al, director John Glenister, Blunt to chauffeur
Spies can’t have friends. Not proper friends. Because they tell too many lies. ibid. wife to husband
MI5’s rather like one’s dear old nanny. ibid. Blunt
It was not until 1964, thirteen years later, that MI5 finally confronted Blunt. By that time Sir Anthony Blunt. And offered him for internal security reasons immunity from prosecution. It took a further 15 years until 1979 for him to be unmasked publicly. ibid. closing commentary
For some reason we’re being managed. Closed Circuit 2013 starring Eric Bana & Ciaran Hinds & Rebecca Hall & Isaac Hempstead-Wright & Denis Moschitto & Jemma Powell & Riz Ahmed & Anne-Marie Duff & Kenneth Cranham & Julia Stiles & Jim Broadbent et al, director John Crowley
The American? His name is Napoleon Solo. He is not your typical American spy. He joined the US army aged 18 and was posted to Europe ... His criminal ingenuity had made headlines all over Europe ... Kill him if necessary. But he must not help the girl escape. The Man From Uncle 2015 starring Armie Hammer & Henry Cavill & Alicia Vikander & Elizabeth Debicki & Sylvestor Groth & Christian Berkel & Luca Calvani & Misha Kuznetsov & Jared Harris & Hugh Grant et al, director Guy Ritchie, Russians
Your mission is to infiltrate this organisation and to retrieve Dr Teller and his research. ibid. Russian to hero spy
I'm sure we can find something to do for five minutes. ibid.
Q-7, Dr Mitchell, is a missile. Aha! That rang a bell. What’s the anticipated range? The expected range, Dr Mitchell! [slaps the good doctor] The Secret Man 1958 starring Marshall Thompson & John Loder & Henry Oscar & John Stuart & Ann Aubrey & Magda Miller & Murray Kash & Michael Mellinger & Robert McKenzie & Tom Bowman & Peter Elliott et al, director Ronald Kinnoch
We’ve got to find Mitchell! ibid. office of power
I've no intention of allowing this to become another Burgess & Maclean case. ibid.
In a world at war many sparrows must fall. The Fallen Sparrow 1943 starring John Garfield & Maureen O'Hara & Walter Slezak & Patricia Morison & Martha O'Driscoll & Bruce Edwards & John Banner & John Miljan & Hugh Beaumont et al, director Richard Wallace, opening caption
It was pretty tough. First you didn’t think you could take it. Then you did ... It was dark and hot. You live mostly by sounds ... Water dripping in the hall ... Then you just wait for the boot to come. ibid. spy describing torture
State Security is interested in knowing more about Dmitri Ustinov. Red Sparrow 2018 starring Jennifer Lawrence & Joel Edgerton & Matthias Schoenaerts & Charlotte Rampling & Mary-Louise Parker & Jeremy Irons & Ciaran Hinds & Joely Richardson & Bill Camp et al, director Francis Lawrence, spy to sparrow
You have potential. Great potential. ibid. spy uncle to sparrow
Your body belongs to the state. ibid. Matron
Early in 1914 a coded cable was sent from a European power to a house in West London. Decoded it read: Let the Sleepers Awake. The 39 Steps 1979 starring Robert Powell & David Warner & Eric Porter & Karen Dotrice & John Mills & Timothy West & Donald Pickering & George Baker & Ronald Pickup & Miles Anderson et al, director Don Sharp, caption
Scudder was on to something big: so big it involves a war between this country and Germany. ibid. Hannay
What do you know of the 39 steps? ibid. interrogator
Edmund Appleton was convicted of treason in May 1914. ibid.
21:45 D 9850 Sulzbach. Berlin Express 1948 starring Merle Oberon & Robert Ryan & Charles Korvin & Paul Lukas & Robert Coote & Reinhold Schunzel & Roman Toporow & Peter von Zerneck & Otto Waldis & Fritz Kortner & Michael Harvey & Richard Powers et al, director Jacques Tourneur, message retrieved from dead pigeon
This was a world of rubble under strict military control. ibid.
He’s carrying on him some microfilm that’s got the results of the latest Russian space tests – that is the kind of information that could determine who’s going to get to the moon first. The Defector 1966 starring Montgomery Clift & Hardy Kruger & Roddy McDowell & Macha Meril & David Opatoshu & Christine Delaroche & Hannes Messemer & Karl Lieffen et al, director Raoul Levy, McDowell
You have a rather questionable attitude towards authority. When Eight Bells Toll 1971 starring Anthony Hopkins & Corin Redgrave & Jack Hawkins & Robert Morley & Nathalie Delon & Derek Bond & Ferdy Mayne & Maurice Roeves & Leon Collins & Wendy Allnutt et al, director Etienne Perier, Morley to Hopkins
There’s only one side to be on and that’s the winning one. ibid. Hopkins
So he’ll come. Talk about free elections and democratic reform and pray that appeases everyone. The Interpreter 2005 starring Sean Penn & Nicole Kidman & Catherine Keener & Jesper Christiensen & Yvan Attal & Michael Wright & Earl Cameron & George Harris & Tsai Chin & Clyde Kusatsu & Eric Keenleyside et al, director Sydney Pollack, UN chief of security
A great new source of power that could revolutionise industry. Master Spy 1964 starring Stephen Murray & June Thorburn & Alan Wheatley & John Carson & Jack Watson & Ernest Clark & Peter Gilmore & Marne Maitland & Ellen Pollock et al, director Montgomery Tully, Turganev
Become a spy and see the world. Such a nice exclusive dirty trade. ibid.