I want you back in MI5 and I want you back now. Billion Dollar Brain 1967 starring Michael Caine & Karl Malden & Ed Begley & Oskar Homolka & Francoise Dorleac & Guy Doleman & Vladek Sheybal & Milo Sperber et al, director Ken Russell, Colonel Ross
For England and for you Colonel Ross I volunteer. ibid.
You are mixed up with an organisation known as the Crusade for Freedom. It is financed by an oil millionaire in Texas by the man of Midwinter. ibid.
Be wise: don’t go to the meeting tomorrow. ibid. Colonel Stok
Oh Lord, give us comfort, give us strength to fight thy godless communist foes and smash them into the ground. ibid. Midwinter
There’s only one important issue in this world today: communism. ibid.
It makes the Pentagon look like a room in the Alamo. ibid.
Men, our cause is just. Our mission is historic. You are already heroes. With God on our side how can we fail? ibid. Midwinter
People have no idea about the shitstorm that’s about to go down. Cleanskin 2012 starring Sean Bean & Charlotte Rampling & Abhin Galeya & Tuppence Middleton & Tom Burke & James Fox & Michelle Ryan & Peter Polycarpou & Sam Douglas et al, director Hadi Hajaig, opening scene fat bloke in bedroom
We must rise up against these Western pigs who occupy our lands. Who come at us with smiles. ibid. Muslim preacher
It’s the same shit every day. ibid. him to her
We’re going to see some wrestling. Some say I’m crazy. Freedom to Die 1961 starring Paul Maxwell & Felicity Young & Bruce Seton & Kay Callard & T P McKenna & Laurie Leigh & James Neylin & Dermon Tuohy & Charlie Byrne & James Fitzgerald & Desmond Perry et al, director Francis Searle, him to her
Get rid of him, Mike, and make it neat. ibid. gangstas
I suppose if I’d have been educated instead of going to Eton things would have been different. When London Sleeps 1932 starring Leslie S Hiscott & Harold French & Francis L Sullivan & Rene Ray & Alexander Field & Ben Field & Bromley Davenport & Herbert Lomas & David Butler et al, director Leslie S Hiscott, him to her
You’re a very mysterious group I must say. Well for one thing you all appear to be of different nationalities. Beat the Devil 1953 starring Humphrey Bogart & Jennifer Jones & Gina Lollobrigida & Robert Morley & Peter Lorre & Edward Underdown & Ivor Bernard & Marco Tulli & Bernard Lee & Mario Perrone at el, director John Huston, Gwendolen
Gelignite Gang in London Raid. Gelignite Gang 1955 starring Wayne Morris & Sandra Dorne & Patrick Holte & James Kenney & Arthur Young & Eric Pohlmann & Lloyd Lamble & Tony Doonan & Hugh Miller & Bertha Russell et al, director Francis Searle, Evening Standard
Hello, John. I’ve got the gelignite gang trapped ... Their hideaway is a pawnbroker’s shop. ibid.
I’m all right. Wait till you see what I’ve found. The Weapon 1956 starring Steve Cochran & Lizabeth Scott & Herbert Marshall & George Cole & Nicole Maurey & John Whitely & Laurence Naismith & Stanley Maxted & Dennis Shaw & Felix Felton & John Horsley & Fred Johnson et al, director Val Guest, kid to kid
This is a young man’s game, Brian. Hatton Garden: The Heist 2016 starring Michael McKell & Sidney Livingstone & Robert Putt & James Osborne & Sidney Kean & A G Longhurst & Ian Burfield & Richard Toone & Richard Duggins & Kelly Donovan, director Terry Lee Coker, gang in pub
We’re gonna make history. ibid.
We are doing the biggest robbery of this century. ibid.
We ain’t safe here. I got a mate in Brighton he don’t know we’ll go there for a bit. London to Brighton 2006 starring Lorraine Stanley & Georgia Groome & Sam Spruell & Alexander Morton & Johnny Harris & Chloe Bale & Nathan Constance et al, director Paul Andrew Williams, opening scene
All this scum round here – that’s who you deal with, isn’t it? ibid. bloke in jam-jar
£50,000 in cash. The police are going to be a little unhappy. Naked Fury 1959 starring Reed de Rowen & Kenneth Cope & Ligh Madison & Arthur Lovegrove & Alexander Field & Tommy Eytle & Ann Lynn & Marianne Brauns & Arthur Gross et al, director Charles Saunders, gang leader with American accent
This planet has been raped, pillaged and fucked. Assault on Precinct 13 2005 starring Ethan Hawke & Laurence Fishburne & Gabriel Byrne & Maria Bello & Drea de Matteo & John Leguizamo & Brian Dennehy & Ja Rule & Currie Graham & Aisha Hinds & Matt Craven & Fulvio Cecere et al, director Jean-Francois Richet
They’re surrounding the place; it’s a goddamned siege. ibid. Dennegy & Hawke
They can’t allow any of us to leave here alive. ibid. Hawke
They are not Bishop’s people; they are police officers. ibid.
I wanna know why he died, the way he died, I wanna know why he sat in a bath of cold water for twelve hours in his clothes. I’ll Sleep When I'm Dead 2003 starring Clive Owen & Charlotte Rampling & Ken Stott & Sylvia Syms & Jonathan Rhys Meyers & Malcolm McDowell & Jamie Foreman & Alexander Norton & John Surman et al, director Mike Hodges, Will
It’s grief: for a life wasted. ibid. Will
The Americans are bringing us all to the brink. Blunt: The Fourth Man 1986 starring Ian Richardson & Michael Williams & Anthony Hopkins & Albert Welling & Rosie Kerslake & Emma Cottrell et al, director John Glenister, Blunt to chauffeur
Spies can’t have friends. Not proper friends. Because they tell too many lies. ibid. wife to husband
MI5’s rather like one’s dear old nanny. ibid. Blunt
It was not until 1964, thirteen years later, that MI5 finally confronted Blunt. By that time Sir Anthony Blunt. And offered him for internal security reasons immunity from prosecution. It took a further fifteen years until 1979 for him to be unmasked publicly. ibid. closing commentary
What you gonna do? So, what the fuck, Ray? Nine months to go and you call Keegan? Why would you do that? That’s such a wicked price to pay. The Forger 2014 starring John Travolta & Christopher Plummer & Abigail Spencer & Jennifer Ehle & Tye Sheridan & Anson Mount & Victor Gojcaj et al, director Philip Martin
I might surprise you. Give me a chance. ibid. father to son
I submit eleven against one should be enough. No matter how sickly and decrepit those eleven happen to be. Cape Fear 1962 starring Robert Mitchum & Gregory Peck & Polly Bergen & Lori Martin & Martin Balsam & Jack Kruschen & Telly Savalas & Barrie Chase & Paul Comi & Edward Platt et al, director J Lee Thompson, Pack to Beak
Hello, Counselor. Remember me? ibid. Mitchum to Peck
Give my love to your family, Counsellor. I’ll be seeing you. ibid.
Bird: Are you trying to pick me up?
Mitchum: Yes. ibid.
Stay off my property. Day or night. ibid. Peck to Mitchum
All we can do is act after the fact. ibid. rozzer to Peck
No, no, that would be letting you off too easy. Too fast. Your words, do you remember? I do. No. We’re gonna take good care of you. We’re gonna nurse you back to health ... You’re gonna live a long life in a cage. That’s where you belong. And that’s where you’re going ... until the day you rot. ibid. Peck with shooter to Mitchum
I don’t have some kind of sixth sense you know except in ridiculous novels. Jennifer Eight 1992 starring Andy Garcia & Uman Thurman & Lance Henriksen & Kathy Baker & Kevin Conway & Graham Beckel & Bob Gunton & John Malkovich et al, director Bruce Robinson, blind Thurman to Garcia
Rule one is don’t diddle around with a witness. ibid. brother
Listen carefully. Your wife has been taken. Getaway 2013 starring Ethan Hawke & Selena Gomez & Jon Voight & Rebecca Budig & Paul Freeman & Bruce Payne & et al, director Courtney Solomon, gangsta to Hawke