Dalby

Auton 3 (1999)

Actors: Nicholas Briggs (writer), Bill Baggs (director), Rory O'Donnell (actor), Robert Holmes (writer), Michael Wade (actor), Steve Johnson (actor), Patricia Merrick (director), Jo Castleton (actress), Blaine Coughlan (actor), Bryonie Pritchard (actress), George Telfer (actor), Andrew Fettes (actor), Peter Trapani (actor), Paul Ebbs (writer), Peter Trapani (actor),

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The Ipcress File (1965)

Actors: John Barry (composer), Gordon Jackson (actor), Peter R. Hunt (editor), Michael Caine (actor), Sidney J. Furie (director), Harry Saltzman (producer), Nigel Green (actor), Glynn Edwards (actor), Guy Doleman (actor), Sue Lloyd (actress), Douglas Blackwell (actor), Thomas Baptiste (actor), Anthony Baird (actor), Tony Caunter (actor), Max Faulkner (actor),

Plot: A number of leading Western scientists have been kidnapped only to reappear a fews days later. Unfortunately, each scientist has been brainwashed and is now completely useless. The British send their agent, Harry Palmer, to investigate. Palmer is surprised to be selected for such a mission (considering his past) and believes he has been chosen because he is expendable.

Keywords: albania, attic, based-on-novel, brainwashing, brass-band, cia-agent, cockney-accent, cold-war, dead-body, deep-focus
Genres: Drama, Thriller,

Quotes:

[Palmer comes home early to find agent Courtney searching his flat]::Courtney: You're supposed to be at work.::Palmer: Oh, you are, of course.

Major Dalby: The next time you use CC1 authority, just you make sure you have it!::Palmer: You know, it's funny... If Radcliffe had been here, I'd have been... a hero.::Major Dalby: He wasn't. And you're not.

Major Dalby: The Americans have put a tail on Palmer.::Colonel Ross: How very tiresome of them.

Major Dalby: [of Palmer's dossier] It isn't usual to read a B107 to its subject, Palmer; but I'm gonna put you straight. "Insubordinate. Insolent. A trickster. Perhaps with criminal tendencies."::Palmer: Yes, that's a pretty fair appraisal - sir.::Major Dalby: Good. That last quality might be useful. But if I have any trouble with you, Palmer, I shall *bite* you, Palmer, and I shall bite you so hard you'll go right back to where Ross found you!

Palmer: The fellow whose job I'm taking, will he show me the ropes?::Major Dalby: Maybe - if you're in touch with the spirit world.::Palmer: I beg your pardon?::Major Dalby: He was shot this morning.

Colonel Ross: [shopping with Palmer] Beef-A-Roni? Extraordinary.

Palmer: Have you seen everything?::Courtney: Yes, thank you.::Palmer: Then you know where the... whiskey is?::Courtney: Yes.::Palmer: Fix us both one, will you?

Inspector Keightley: That little blonde bird you was with the other evening...::Palmer: Rita?::Inspector Keightley: That's it. What's her phone number?::Palmer: You dirty old man!::Inspector Keightley: Well, you scratch my back and I'll scratch hers.::Palmer: You ought to be locked up!::Inspector Keightley: I know.

[Palmer prepares to leave]::Inspector Keightley: Now wait a minute. What about her telephone number?::Palmer: Oh... Disconnected!

[Palmer and Dalby are attending a performance of a military band playing Mozart]::Palmer: Very neat. Must we sit through any more of this torture? I've got a lot of things to do.::Major Dalby: I think they're playing very well.::Palmer: Tell me who wins. [gets up and leaves]