In Like Flint (1967)
Quotes
[On hearing that the president has been replaced by an impostor.]
Flint: An actor? As president?
Lloyd C. Cramden: Flint, How do you find time to read all these books?
Flint: No, no, no, sir, I wrote those.
Lisa Norton: You're quite accustomed to being admired by women, aren't you? All those, uh, ridiculous, uh...
Flint: Sighs? Yes, you're quite right. They are ridiculous. I must say it's refreshing to be with a beautiful woman who's above that sort of thing.
Lisa Norton: Why I never said I was above that sort of thing. What I meant was...
Flint: Yes?
Lisa Norton: You really are good at it Mr. Flint.
[Flint laughs]
Lisa Norton: Tell me something. What is it about you that makes you so irresistible to women?
Flint: It's very simple. I don't compete with them.
[Flint takes Lisa's face and kisses her]
Flint: Now that ends the suspense.
Lisa Norton: You're quite right. I was curious. Well, now you've had the tour and so have I.
Natasha, the Ballerina: Derek, darling. Your American music is so decadent.
Flint: Yeah.
Natasha, the Ballerina: But it's so exciting.
Flint: Well, that's where it's at, honey.
[Flint shatters a billiard ball with a hand-held sonic device]
Lloyd C. Cramden: It's extraordinary!
Flint: [Scoffs] It's a toy. However, we *are* making such scientific strides that
[grabs book from shelf and hands it to Cramden]
Flint: this last year's book is already out of date
Lloyd C. Cramden: How *do* you find time to read?
Flint: No no, I wrote that...
Flint: Eh, how much time do we have?
Lisa Norton: We have less than an hour.
[Flint whistles - walks over to the President]
Flint: Sir, a call from you. There's an airbase close by.
U.S. President Trent: [President dejected since he is currently being impersonated by an double] Who'd believe me?
[Flint sighs - then turns to girls when he remembers there is a lot of recreational water craft - some human powered - that could be used to invade the other island launch site]
Flint: Well I saw a lot of floating stuff up there and your staff I understand is quite athletic.
Elisabeth: I don't know what you mean.
Lisa Norton: I do. Look Miss Elizabeth our way just didn't work.
[Lisa Norton turns to Flint]
Lisa Norton: I'll get the rest of the girls and I'll meet you at the beach.
Elisabeth: What will you do when you get there?
Lisa Norton: Operation Smooch.
Elisabeth: Operation Smooch?
Flint: Operation? Smooch?
Lisa Norton: Smooch.
[Flint chuckles]
[Flint thinks he has found a flaw in the women's plan to take over the world]
Flint: But. What about the millions of the women throughout the world who may not see your little plan just the way you do?
Elisabeth: Did you say millions?
Flint: Millions yes.
Elisabeth: [Elizabeth to Lisa Norton] My dear, show Mr. Flint how the "hair dryer" works. Go ahead Mr. Flint I think you will be quite interested.
Flint: Hair dryer?
[Flint watches as Lisa Norton removes hair dyer side panel revealing a small running reel to reel tape deck]
Flint: I suppose when the hair is wet the current is conducted and the programming is received.
[Flint turns off tape player]
Flint: Brain and hair washing at the same time.
Lisa Norton: Exactly.
Flint: [Flint sighs] You really think you can get away with THIS?
Elisabeth: Get away with it? Oh Mr. Flint, think a minute. Think. Now then, hair dryers like these have been in use for some time. Correct?
Flint: Yes, correct.
Elisabeth: Very well, for many years now every time a woman went into a beauty shop she came out a LITTLE bit more dissatisfied with a man's world. We've been busy Mr. Flint. I think you'll find, the contented housewife, is a thing of the past.
Flint: Ladies. FORGET IT!
[the women repeat Flint's last two words in a shocked tone]
U.S. President Trent: Well, ladies. It was touch and go but I hope you learned your lesson. The world is better off in our hands.
Elisabeth: You're absolutely right, sir.
Lisa Norton: Hello Mr. Flint
Flint: Uh, Miss Norton.
Lisa Norton: I imagine you find it all a bit, gothic?
Flint: It's lovely.
Lisa Norton: What you must think of us. To come in this way. Unannounced.
Flint: But not unexpected I gather. No.
Flint: Is this real?
[Flint points to cryogenic booths room]
Lisa Norton: Cryobiology?
Flint: Yes.
Lisa Norton: Oh yes. Yes it's quite real. We call it our "Save for Later" program.
Flint: [Flint chuckles] Nooo.
Lisa Norton: Yes. Here people worth keeping can be saved for a time more worth living. As a matter of fact it's, uh, really quite the ultimate luxury.
Flint: Hmm.
Lisa Norton: Just imagine. Just imagine here we can suspend time for as long as we wish. To return fifty or a hundred years later.
Flint: Well. To be frozen in nitrogen gas and then thawed out at some time later like a supermarket pizza is not exactly the classical idea of immortality but
[Flint points out framed mirror on wall with the words 'Eternity Now' etched on it]
[Flint is introduced to the four top women behind everything that has been happening]
Flint: But I know all of you ladies.
[Flint points to them in turn]
Flint: Fashions. Cosmetics. Publications. Communications. You're all very famous ladies. What you don't manage you control. What you don't control you, influence. What you don't influence you probably one day will inherit.
Flint: That's very well put Mr. Flint. Don't you agree ladies?
[Everyone thinks Flint has just been killed in saving the world - again]
U.S. President Trent: He'll not be forgotten Llyod. There'll be a national, no an international day of mourning for him. I'll issue a proclamation.
[radio buzzes - then voice]
Flint: Mission control. Control center. Control center. Awaiting instructions.
Lloyd C. Cramden: It's Flint. He's alive!
[crowd cheers]
Lloyd C. Cramden: He must be on the platform.
U.S. President Trent: That's impossible!
Lloyd C. Cramden: Of course it is. That's why he's Flint!
[Cramden laughing - talks into radio mic]
Lloyd C. Cramden: Congratulates Flint. Hah! Ah, you made it. We'll get you back safely. We've got a recovery team in the area of the Canary Islands.
Flint: Oh sorry sir but the Canary Islands, seems a bit far out to me, uh, we would appreciate it, splashdown instructions for say Central Park.
Lloyd C. Cramden: [Camden laughs again - surprised] Central Park! Get the coordinates for Central Park.
