Tunes of Glory (1960)
Alec Guinness: Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
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Quotes
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Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : We're on a first name basis in this regiment. Your first name is Derek. My first name is Major.
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Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : Whisky for the gentlemen that like it. And for the gentlemen that don't like it: whisky.
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[while watching the pipers practice, Barrow notes that some of the men are not wearing the proper caps]
Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : Colonel, there's a tradition here...
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow : I'm all in favor of good tradition.
Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : I've always let the pipers wear pretty well what they please at band practice.
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow : Because you've let them wear what they like just doesn't make it a tradition!
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Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : [about Barrow's death] It's not the body worries me. It's the ghost.
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Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : So, tell me Corporal, are your intentions honorable?
Cpl. Piper Ian Fraser : Aye, sir.
Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : Then you're a damn fool. You leave "honorable intentions" to fathers like me.
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Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : ... others, Pipe Major.
Pipe Major Maclean : 'Cock of the North,' sir.
Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : Ah, yon's a cheesy tune. You'll no play that.
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Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : [yelling at the party as the officers are clapping after the pipers have finished playing] Mackinnon!
2nd Lt. David Mackinnon : [as the officers stop clapping stunned by Sinclair's outburst] Colonel?
Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : [about his cigarette] For God sake, smoke that bloody thing like a man! Stop puffing at it like a ruddy *debutante*.
Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : [sternly as Mackinnon looks up and down to the cigarette in his hand] Go on laddie, smoke it, smoke it.
Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : [as Mackinnon starts to smoke] Draw it in, draw it in.
[Mackinnon exhales a rough cough after a deep drag on the cigarette, with resulting laughter from Sinclair and most of the other officers]
Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. : [about this display] Am I coarse, Simpson?
[Simpson doesn't reply but continues to have a disgusted look on his face]