Other Titles • Gesprengte Ketten (1963) • The Great Escape (1963)
Quotes from The Great Escape (1963)
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Sedgwick: Danny, do you speak Russian? Danny: A little, but only one sentence. Sedgwick: Well, let me have it, mate. Danny: Ia vas liubliu. Sedgwick: Ia ia vas... Danny: Liubliu. Sedgwick: Liubliu? Ia vas liubliu. Ia vas liubliu. What's it mean? Danny: I love you. Sedgwick: "Love you." What bloody good is that? Danny: I don't know, I wasn't going to use it myself.
(24 votes)
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Sergeant-Hauptmann Strachwitz: [Danny and Sedgewick are trying to sneak out with a group of Russian prisoners] Halt! [walks over to Sedgewick] Sergeant-Hauptmann Strachwitz: Out! Danny: Nyet, nyet! Tovarich! [No, No! Friend!] Sergeant-Hauptmann Strachwitz: And who vouches for you, Lieutenant Kilensky? Danny: [hands coat back to Russian prisoner and steps out of line] Spasiba. [thanks]
(22 votes)
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Bartlett: One has to ask some very strange things in the job I have.
(19 votes)
4
Colin: Afraid this tea's pathetic. Must have used these wretched leaves about twenty times. It's not that I mind so much. Tea without milk is so uncivilized.
(19 votes)
5
Hilts: I haven't seen Berlin yet, from the ground or from the air, and I plan on doing both before the war is over.
(19 votes)
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Hilts: I'm going... out.
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MacDonald: Oh my God, they found Tom.
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Sedgwick: It's all right. It's all right, mate. We're just having a friendly little argument.
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Von Luger: Are all American officers so ill-mannered? Hilts: Yeah, about 99 percent. Von Luger: Then perhaps while you are with us you will have a chance to learn some. Ten days isolation, Hilts. Hilts: *Captain* Hilts. Von Luger: Twenty days. Hilts: Right. Oh, uh, you'll still be here when I get out? Von Luger: [visibly annoyed] Cooler.
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Hilts: How many you taking out? Bartlett: Two hundred and fifty. Hilts: Two hundred and fifty? Bartlett: Yeh. Hilts: You're crazy. You oughta be locked up. You, too. Two hundred and fifty guys just walkin' down the road, just like that?
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Hilts: Wait a minute. You aren't seriously suggesting that if I get through the wire... and case everything out there... and don't get picked up... to turn myself in and get thrown back in the cooler for a couple of months so you can get the information you need? Bartlett: Yes.
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Colin: Thank you for getting me out.
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Von Luger: It looks, after all, as if you will see Berlin before I do.
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Hilts: Hold on to yourself, Bartlett. You're twenty feet short. Bartlett: What do you mean, twenty feet short? Hilts: You're twenty feet short of the woods. The hole is right here in open. The guard is between us and the lights.
15
Bartlett: What about the goon towers? Hilts: That's a chance you're gonna have to take. But they're gonna be watching the compound, not the woods.
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Ramsey: Colonel Von Luger, it is the sworn duty of all officers to try to escape.
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German officer: What are you doing over here by the wire? Hilts: Well, like I told Max here, I was trying to get my... German Soldier: [Voice] Achtung! [Von Luger enters] Von Luger: What were you doing by the wire? Hilts: Well, like I told Max... I was trying to cut my way through your wire because I wanta get out.
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Ramsey: Roger's idea was to get back at the enemy the hardest way he could, mess up the works. From what we've heard here, I think he did exactly that. Hendley: Do you think it was worth the price? Ramsey: Depends on your point of view, Hendley.
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Sergeant-Hauptmann Strachwitz: I will not take action against you, now. This is the first day here and there has been much stupidity and carelessness... on both sides!
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Hendley: Come on, Roger. We all know the score here, at least... most of us do. Your idea of this escape is to... start another front, to foul up the Germans behind the lines. All right, that's fine, that's fine. But once we get passed that barbed wire, once we have them looking all over Germany for us, that mission is accomplished. Afterwards, we have some ideas of our own. Bartlett: You mean getting home? Back to your family and children? Hendley: That's right. Bartlett: Good God, man. Do you really believe I haven't thought about that, too?
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Bartlett: Not Colin. He'd be an appalling hazard to the whole escape. That must be my decision. Hendley: You want to talk about hazards? Let talk about hazards. Lets talk about you. You're the biggest hazard we have. The Gestapo has you marked. No one has said you can't go. Bartlett: That's true, and I have thought about the Gestapo. But if you're asking me how a far a commanding officer is allowed to go, or dare go, or should be permitted to play God, I can't answer you.
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Colin: Tea? Hendley: I only drank tea once - in a hospital.
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Sergeant-Hauptmann Strachwitz: Your name? Archibald 'Archie' Ives, 'The Mole': Ives. [Strachwitz looks through his prisoner profiles] Sergeant-Hauptmann Strachwitz: Ives... Ives... Oh, yes. Archibald Ives. Scot. The photograph doesn't do justice. Archibald 'Archie' Ives, 'The Mole': I'd like to see one of you under similar circumstances.
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[the German camp commandant explains why so many incorrigible Allied prisoners were placed in the place Stalag] Von Luger: We have in effect put all our rotten eggs in one basket. And we intend to watch this basket carefully.
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POW: What the hell have you got in there, a piano? Sedgewick: Oh, that's very funny, mate. POW: Sedgewick, you won't get this thing through. Sedgewick: [pulling his trunk into the tunnel] I'll cope!
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[on some materials he's using for escape clothes] Bartlett: Where in God's name did you get these? Griffith 'Tailor': Hendley. Bartlett: Well, where did he get them? Griffith 'Tailor': Well, I asked him that. Bartlett: What did he say? Griffith 'Tailor': "Don't ask."
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Bartlett: Virgil, isn't it? Hilts: Hilts. Just make it Hilts.
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Lt. Cmdr. Eric 'Dispersal' Ashley-Pitt: [watching Hilts be brought back into camp] I didn't think he'd get caught so soon. Bartlett: He wasn't caught.
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Colin: I can't see a bloody thing!
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Hendley: Colin's not a blind man as long as he's with me. And he's going with me!
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