Cairo (1942)

Dennis Hoey: Col. Woodhue

Quotes 

• Col. Woodhue : Why on earth would a top-flight Nazi agent try to decode a song by Marcia Warren? Why would he want to be engaged by her as a butler?

  Strange Man : He's obviously after something, sir.

• Col. Woodhue : Cavity Rock? What is it, an uncharted island?

  Strange Man : Navy has checked it against everything in the Red Sea-Mediterranean area, sir. No luck.

• Marcia Warren : Now, let me guess what you wanted to see me about. Yes, I would be very happy to sing for the soldiers. Where and when?

  Col. Woodhue : Oh, we don't bother asking you anymore, Miss Warren - we just assign you.

• Marcia Warren : But he's not English.

  Col. Woodhue : Well, whatever his nationality, we suspect him to be Philo Cobson, a well-known and dangerous Nazi agent.

• Col. Woodhue : If you've got any doubts, watch him react to this.

  [He clicks his heels together and takes Marcia's hand to kiss it] 

  Col. Woodhue : Auf wiedersehen, Fraulein Warren.

  Marcia Warren : Auf wiedersehen, mein colonel.

• Col. Woodhue : Juniper? He's new, isn't he?

  Marcia Warren : Juniper Jones - he's brand new.

  Col. Woodhue : An odd name.

  Marcia Warren : A phony. But, he's an American and obviously hard up, so I gave him a job.

  Col. Woodhue : Is that all you know about him?

  Marcia Warren : Well, he's not too bright, and kinda cute, very attentive.

  Col. Woodhue : I should think he would be.

  Marcia Warren : Do you know him?

  Col. Woodhue : Know of him

  Marcia Warren : Wellll, tell me.

• Col. Woodhue : He must have dropped that as a message to you.

  Marcia Warren : But I thought you said he must have lost them. He's not smart, huh? He's just a small-town hick.

  Col. Woodhue : I didn't say that.

  Marcia Warren : No, I know you didn't. I did. Stand back everybody, I'm going to sing a C.

• Marcia Warren : Tell me.

  Col. Woodhue : Come, now, it isn't exactly tea-table gossip.

  Marcia Warren : Oh, now, don't tell me Juniper's a Jap.