Without law, commander, there is no civilisation. ibid. Nicholson to Sheers
It was an escape from reality. ibid. camp big knob
Do not speak to me of rules. This is war. This is not a game of cricket. ibid.
It’s going to be a proper bridge. ibid. Nicholson
Madness! Madness! ibid. engineer’s closing lines
The American Pacific Fleet was attacked and partially destroyed by Japan on Sunday Morning December 7, 1941. Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 starring Joseph Cotton & Martin Balsam & Jason Robards & So Yamamura & Tatsuya Mihashi & E G Marshall & James Whitmore & Takahiro Tamura et al, director Richard Fleischer, opening caption
Army hotheads are demanding an alliance with Germany. ibid. Yamamoto
If we must go to war, we can raise havoc for a year or so; after that, I can guarantee nothing. ibid. Yamamoto to prime minister
There’s no last word in diplomacy. ibid.
Japan is going to attack us. ibid. US general
Send the message, Tora! Tora! Tora! ibid. Japanese wing commander
This is just the beginning of the war. ibid. Yamamoto
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. ibid.
There will be no escape unless you wish to die. The Colditz Story 1954 starring John Mills & Christopher Rhodes & Lionel Jeffries & Bryan Forbes & Guido Lorraine & Anton Diffring & Eric Portman & Frederick Valk & Denis Shaw & Ian Carmichael et al, director Guy Hamilton, German
You have been blacklisted all of you as enemies of Germany. ibid. Commandant
Ah so, a tunnel. ibid. German
I think that you have certain qualifications that might be of great use. Carve Her Name With Pride 1958 starring Virginia McKenna & Paul Scofield & Jack Warner & Denise Grey & Maurice Ronet & Alain Saury & Bill Owen & Billie Whitelaw et al, director Lewis Gilbert, dangerous work bloke to McKenna
You put up a good fight, mademoiselle. Cigarette? ibid. Nazi
What the devil did I tie that knot for? Waterloo Road 1944 starring John Mills & Stewart Granger & Alastair Sim & Joy Shelton & Alison Leggatt & Leslie Bradley & George Carney & Jean Kent & Anna Konstam & Vera Frances & Ben Williams et al, director Sidney Gilliat, opening scene
Carrying on with a chap like that and Jim away in the army! ibid. war bird to war bird
I’ve got to find Tillie before they catch up with me again. ibid. Jim
What you gonna do – sock ’im? ibid. bird to Jim
I wonder what they’ll think of their mums and dads. Probably never understand why they allowed all this … they didn’t come through so badly. ibid. contemplates future
The Fuhrer is far-sighted. He knows that the rocket is the weapon of tomorrow. Operation Crossbow 1965 starring George Peppard & Sophia Loren & Trevor Howard & John Mills & Tom Courtenay & Richard Johnson & Jeremy Kemp & Anthony Quayle & Lilli Palmer & Paul Henreid & Patrick Wymark & Richard Todd et al, director Michael Anderson, Nazi
London soon will stagger under the impact of 20,000 flying bombs. bid.
The Fuhrer has ordered the total destruction of London. ibid.
We see our role as essentially defensive in nature. While our armies are advancing so fast and everyone’s knocking themselves out to be heroes, we are holding ourselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Paris ... or maybe even New York. Then we can move in and stop them. But for 1.6 million dollars, we could become heroes for three days. Kelly’s Heroes 1970 starring Clint Eastwood & Telly Savalas & Don Rickles & Carroll O’Connor & Donald Sutherland & Gavin MacLeod & Stuart Margolin & Jeff Morris & Richard Davalos & George Savalas et al, director Brian G Hutton, Oddball
I’m gonna decorate every man in this penetration unit, whoever they are. They saved the reputation of this entire army. [to officers] You’re the ones supposed to be fightin’ this battle, and you don’t even know where the hell it is! Well, I’ll tell you where it is. It’s thirty miles beyond where you thought it was. Booker! Come on, now, let’s get this army of mine back in the war! ibid. Major General Colt
Always with the negative waves. ibid. Oddball
Suez – the key to the Middle East. And with the British in full retreat nothing stood in Rommel’s way but the tiny garrison of empire troops cut off in the fortress town of Tobruk. The Desert Rats 1953 starring Richard Burton & James Mason & Robert Newton & Robert Douglas & Torin Thatcher & Chips Rafferty & Charles Davis & Ben Wright et al, director Robert Wise, commentary
‘You don’t know what it is to be a coward. Really a coward. To know it.’ ibid. old teacher to Burton
Little bands of desperate men went out from Tobruk to spread havoc, confusion and fear among the enemy. ibid.
You can rely on the law. It’s not like family or friends. The law never lets you down. The Tenth Man 1988 starring Anthony Hopkins & Kristin Scott Thomas & Derek Jacobi & Cyril Cusack & Brenda Bruce & Timothy Watson & Paul Rogers & Peter Jonfield & Geoffrey Bayldon & Michael Attwell et al, director Jack Gold, Hopkins
I’ve got nothing to say to God any more. ibid. Hopkins
Anyone can play the coward once. Many of us do in fact and we forget about it afterwards. ibid.
We are, after all, reputedly, the British army. The Last Drop 2005 starring Billy Zane & Laurence Fox & Louis Dempsey & Lucy Gaskell & Coral Beed & Andrew Howard & Jack Dee & David Ginola & Neil Newbon & Tommy Flanagan et al, director Colin Teague, squad bloke
The fog of war – what better time for a robbery. ibid. blond bloke
It’s a hell of a war, Jack. ibid. US bloke
Somewhere in Tunisia June 12, 1943 0700 hrs. Hell Squad 1958 starring Wally Compo & Brandon Carroll & Fredric Gavlin & Gregg Stewart & Leon Schrier & Cecil Addis & Ben Bigelow & Jack Sowards & Joe Hampton et al, director Burt Topper, caption
You – I’m going to blow your brains out. ibid. soldier to soldier
By the time it was over 60 to 65,000,000 people lay dead, including an estimated 27,000,000 Soviets, between 10 and 20,000,000 Chinese, 6,000,000 Jews, over 6,000,000 Germans, 3,000,000 non-Jewish Poles, 2,500,000 Japanese and 1,500,000 Yugoslavs. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States I: World War II, Sky Atlantic 2013
The feeble international response to the Spanish Civil War was even more disheartening. ibid.
Texaco persisted undeterred and also supplied oil to Hitler. ibid.
Hitler at the zenith of his arrogance attacked the Soviet Union. ibid.
‘If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia; and if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany. That way let them kill as many as possible.’ ibid. Harry S Truman
Japan and Germany throughout the war never behaved as if close allies. ibid.
Stalin mistrusted especially the British but also the Americans. ibid.
Stalingrad: In the single greatest battle in history the Soviets lost more men than the British or the Americans in the entire war. ibid.
In January 1943, just days before the final German surrender at Stalingrad, Roosevelt and Churchill met at Casablanca. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States II: Roosevelt, Truman & Wallace
Differences over Poland would become the single greatest source of mistrust between the US, Britain and the Soviet Union during and after the war. ibid.
The Yalta agreement would be for ever controversial. ibid.
The Soviet soldiers behaved brutally towards the vanquished Germans. ibid.
Sherlock Holmes, the immortal character of fiction created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is ageless, invincible and unchanging.
In solving significant problems of the present day he remains – as ever – the supreme master of deductive reasoning. Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 1942 starring Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce & Evelyn Ankers & Hendy Daniell & Thomas Gomez & Reginal Denny & Montagu Love et al, director John Rawlins [based His Last Bow], caption