Force 10 from Navarone

Jensen: We're tacking you onto Force 10. The code name for an operation for the Allied mission in Yugoslavia. Mallory: Excuse me, sir. What's their objective? Jensen: It's being treated on a need-to-know basis. And you don't need to know.

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Jensen: [Handing Miller and Mallory a photograph] I'm afraid it's not exactly a masterpiece... but I wonder if you can identify this fellow. [sees no sign that they recognize anyone in the picture] Think back to Navarone. Miller: I'd rather not, sir. Jensen: Nicolai? Yes. Let you down a bit, didn't he? Mallory: But what about him? Andrea's people had him shot as a traitor, didn't they? Jensen: Yes, so we were told. In fact, he escaped. He wasn't a traitor. He was a German agent, who we believe is operating now in Yugoslavia with the Partisans, posing as one Captain Lescovar. Now, you both knew Nicolai. In fact, you're the only people we know of can make a positive identification. So I'd like you to go out there and cope. Miller: Cope, sir? Mallory: Kill him.

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Barnsby: Now, look. Our experts have been studying that bridge for weeks, and they say it'll blow. I don't know where you learned your job, but I'm talking about the best construction engineers in the business! Miller: Yes. Well, they're probably experts at building things, whereas I'm an expert at blowing them up, and you can take it from me that one would need a good eight hours to make a decent job on that bridge.

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Maj. Schroeder: Ah, tell me what has all this to do with that, uh, suitcase case you keep looking at? Mallory: Well, that suitcase is full of our penicillin. Maj. Schroeder: Oh, indeed. Perhaps I could see some of it? Mallory: Certainly, Major. Open it Miller. Miller: You can't do that here, sir. You'll ruin the lot. You know perfectly well that any contamination will destroy it. It's got to be opened under laboratory conditions.

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Barnsby: Sorry about Marko. Lescovar: Thank you. It's a risk we all take. He was a brave man and a good friend. Then he got careless. Mallory: You think that big sergeant spotted him as a partisan? Barnsby: I can't buy that. The sergeant wasn't that bright. [to Lescovar] He saluted you - you're wearing a corporal's uniform. That doesn't rate a salute in the German army. Mallory: Not in anybody's army. Why do you think he saluted you, Lescovar? Lescovar: Perhaps he recognized my natural superiority. Mallory: Yes, perhaps.

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Mallory: Next time, you can play the corpse. You seem pretty handy with that thing, though. Barnsby: Could've been luck.

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