The Baron (TV Series)
Diplomatic Immunity (1966)
Steve Forrest: John Mannering 'The Baron'
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Quotes
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[the stewardess convinces the passenger harrassing Mannering about her brass rubbings to return to her seat]
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Thanks.
Stewardess : It's all part of the service.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : I can be very grateful some night over dinner.
Stewardess : My place or yours?
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Mine. I'd like to show you my... brass rubbings.
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[Marlowe reports the theft of the Faberge bauble to Mannering]
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Who did it?
David Marlowe : The television camera identified her. Her name is Eva Dumel. She works as a courier for the Pameranian embassy.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Have the police picked her up yet?
David Marlowe : They can't.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Why not?
David Marlowe : Diplomatic immunity.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : You're kidding.
David Marlowe : It's true. They can't so much as lay a finger on her.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Well, I've got news for you. I can.
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[Two gun-toting goons have abducted Mannering]
John Mannering 'The Baron' : OK, fellows, we've done the mystery bit. Now, where are we going?
[one of the goons jabs Mannering with a pistol]
John Mannering 'The Baron' : How about a fast game of twenty questions?
[silence]
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Conversation is certainly a dying art.
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John Alexander Templeton-Green : I envy you, Mr. Mannering. You really have had a most eventful life.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : You talk like you expect it to end.
John Alexander Templeton-Green : Do I? Must be my subconscious.
[Templeton-Green reads from Mannering's dosier]
John Alexander Templeton-Green : University of Houston, U.S. Forces in Europe, attached to the Fine Arts Subcommission tracing fine art treasures looted by the Nazis - all very commendable. Ranching in Texas - the Baron Ranch - antiques stores in London, Paris and Washington...
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[Upon entering his Pamerian hotel room, Mannering hears splashing and discovers a beautiful woman taking a bubble bath in his bathroom]
Cordelia Winfield : Good afternoon.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Am I disturbing you?
Cordelia Winfield : Not at all. Am I disturbing you?
[Mannering snorts]
Cordelia Winfield : I'm Cordelia Winfield, your contact in Pomerania.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : It's a gorgeous country.
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[while rummaging through his files of Pameranian government employees, the embassy official pulls out a photograph of a beautiful woman in a bikini]
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Life, liberty and the happiness of pursuit?
Embassy Official : Quite so.
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John Mannering 'The Baron' : I'd like to meet some of these characters.
Cordelia Winfield : The embassy is giving a cocktail party tomorrow at 8. They're all invited.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : But are we?
Cordelia Winfield : We can be.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Then we accept.
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Georges Sforza : One of the reasons I am successful, Mr. Mannering, is that I never press my luck too far... when I have won - or when I have lost.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Well, that's a sure sign of sanity.
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John Mannering 'The Baron' : Is this the fastest this crate'll go? I thought all agents had those sharp-looking, hopped-up jobs.
Cordelia Winfield : That would look great outside my workers' block.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Well, I hope it reaches the border before it blows up.
Cordelia Winfield : It will. It's only another five kilometers to the border.
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John Mannering 'The Baron' : What will you do now, Cordelia?
Cordelia Winfield : Since I'm persona non grata in Pamerania, I suppose I'll go back to England.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : I'm glad.
Cordelia Winfield : Are you? Why?
John Mannering 'The Baron' : I'll buy you the best dinner in London.
Cordelia Winfield : I'd like that.
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[Templeton-Green rescues Mannering and Cordelia from a Pameranian border guard in the nick of time]
John Alexander Templeton-Green : Good morning. Just happened to be passing through.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Next time a guy comes at me with a rifle butt, I hope you just happen to be passing.
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[last lines]
John Alexander Templeton-Green : You know, I really rather envied you this trip. The weather in London has been absolutely shocking. Test match isn't going well, either, and as to golf, not an Englishman in sight. Oh well, we can't all be lucky. Come on!
John Mannering 'The Baron' : [to Cordelia] Rule Britannia.
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[Mannering has followed Eva Dumel to the sixth floor of a government office building]
Embassy Official : On the 6th floor, there's Anna Lobovitch, Minister of Culture. Then there's Georges Sforza - he's Minister of Economics. I don't quite know what the job entails; it's really unemployment on an executive level. And the last is Lazlo Polk, Minister of Trade.
John Mannering 'The Baron' : Any of these people collectors?
Embassy Official : Mr. Mannering, at this level, in this country, everybody is collecting something. Usually it's graft.