Triple Cross (1966)

Gert Fröbe: Colonel Steinhager

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Quotes 

• Colonel Steinhager : Don't you think you have made a dangerous little slip-up this time? Hmm? Don't you, my English friend?

  Eddie Chapman : Oh, give over, Steinhager. You're getting as nutty as Keller. Must be an occupational disease... "Once a policeman, always a policeman." Is that how the saying goes?

  Colonel Steinhager : Yes, and it doesn't make me angry, as you would like it to. I am proud of being a policeman, and grateful. Because we policeman have to be kept on no matter what regime is in power. Whether Germany is ruled by an emperor or communists or national socialists, the State needs policemen and the policeman now who is asking you one more question!

• Colonel Steinhager : Colonel von Grunen, you are under arrest.

  Baron Von Grunen : [calm and calculated]  I resist arrest, Steinhager.

  Colonel Steinhager : [a bit taken aback]  You resist arrest, sir?

  Baron Von Grunen : You know what your orders are if I resist arrest. I command you to carry out your orders!

  [turns his back and proceeds to slowly walk away. Steinhager hesitates to shoot von Grunen in the back, but Keller doesn't] 

  Colonel Steinhager : It wasn't necessary. Somebody else would have done it for us