Operation Crossbow (1965)

George Peppard: 1st Lt. John Curtis USAAF

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• [Curtis is about to make a parachute jump out of an aeroplane] 

  Lt. John Curtis : If you're chute doesn't open, change it for a harp!

  [Curtis jumps] 

  Robert Henshaw : [shouting after Curtis]  I'm not musical.

  [Henshaw jumps] 

• Lt. John Curtis : You don't know?

  Gen. Boyd : No.

  Lt. John Curtis : What do you call this mission? Operation Question Mark?

• Lt. John Curtis : You really don't have any choice. You may as well trust me.

  Nora Van Ostamgen : [long pause]  I trust you.

• Prof. Hoffer : We need men like you. These days, good engineers are scarcer than...

  Lt. John Curtis : than good coffee.

• Lt. John Curtis : They're testing a new one - long range.

  Phil Bradley : How long?

  Lt. John Curtis : They call it the New York rocket.

• Dutch Barge Skipper : This is your way to the hotel. You vill show your papers and rooms like other engineers. The Gestapo will not suspect nothing.

  Lt. John Curtis : I don't like the double negative.

  Dutch Barge Skipper : Sorry, I do not understand the English too well.

  Lt. John Curtis : Glad to hear it.

• Nora Van Ostamgen : Get out of my way!

  Lt. John Curtis : If you don't shut up, we'll have to gag you!

• Nora Van Ostamgen : Do you have children?

  Lt. John Curtis : No.

  Nora Van Ostamgen : Are you married?

  Lt. John Curtis : No.

  Nora Van Ostamgen : Then, it's easy to play the hero.

• Lt. John Curtis : How'd you get on?

  Phil Bradley : Sent back to the base. They said they'd let me know.

  Lt. John Curtis : What?

  Phil Bradley : They didn't say.

  Lt. John Curtis : Probably planning some new secret weapon. That reminds me, can I give you a ride in my cab?

  Phil Bradley : Well, thank you very much. If it's not out of your way. Boodles?

  Lt. John Curtis : Boodles? What's that?

  Phil Bradley : Club, old boy.