Cluny Brown (1946)

Reginald Owen: Sir Henry Carmel

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• Adam Belinski : No, Sir Henry. I know Hitler.

  Sir Henry Carmel : Oh, yes, he's written a book, hasn't he?

  Adam Belinski : Yes.

  Sir Henry Carmel : Big success, isn't it?

  Adam Belinski : Very big.

  Sir Henry Carmel : Well, what more does he want? Why doesn't he lie down and keep quiet?

  Adam Belinski : Well, if you really want to know, Sir Henry, read the book.

  Sir Henry Carmel : Sort of an outdoor book, isn't it? What's it called? Oh yes, "My Camp".

• Sir Henry Carmel : Well, she needn't have dropped the platter and insulted my friend. What was it she said to you?

  Syrette : I remember very well, sir. It was, if I may take the liberty of repeating it, 'Nuts to the squirrels.'

  Sir Henry Carmel : Doesn't make sense!

  Adam Belinski : No, it doesn't. It should be 'Squirrels to the nuts.' But I have an open mind, and if someone says to me 'Nuts to the squirrels,' I accept it. You may be inclined to say that to me yourself some day, when you know me better - and I'm not so sure that you will include the 'squirrels.'

  Sir Henry Carmel : [shaking his head]  That's much too deep for me.

• Sir Henry Carmel : You mean the beggar's broke?

  Andrew Carmel : Oh, you can't call a man broke just because he hasn't any money.

• Sir Henry Carmel : You mean to tell me young girls go in for plumbing nowadays?

  Cluny Brown : It's great fun, and it does everybody so much good.

  Sir Henry Carmel : By George, when I was a young man, we never even discussed plumbing. As a matter of fact, we didn't have any.

• Andrew Carmel : He's fighting for a new and better world?

  Sir Henry Carmel : What for?

  Andrew Carmel : What for? Haven't you heard of the Nazis?

  Sir Henry Carmel : Oh yes, German chaps. Always wanted to see one. Send him down, by all means.

  Andrew Carmel : Father, he isn't a Nazi. He's fighting the Nazis. He's a Czech. The Nazis are after him.

• Sir Henry Carmel : What the devil are Belinskis?

  Andrew Carmel : What the devil are Belinskis? Oh, I give up... what are Belinskis?

• Sir Henry Carmel : I say, Syrette, what's the fellow's name again?

  Lady Alice Carmel : It is hard to remember. So many foreigners do have foreign names, don't they?

• Adam Belinski : I have no dinner jacket, Sir Henry. I couldn't bear to face you in a lounge suit across the dinner table.

  Sir Henry Carmel : Well, uh, wore a lounge suit myself once at dinner - in Naples. Went slumming. Didn't want to shock the natives.

• Sir Henry Carmel : Well then, I'm glad Andrew's joining up. We Carmels have never shirked our duty. No Englishman has or ever will. We'll see this thing through. We'll show that blighter.

  Adam Belinski : It's good to see you angry, Sir Henry. Stay angry and everything will be all right.

• Sir Henry Carmel : But hang it all. It took me quite some time to learn to say Belinski. And now that I can say it. No, Adam, this is beastly selfish of you.