Alfie Bass credited as playing...
Shorty
- Pendlebury: [replying to Shorty's statement that he and Lackery will wait for Holland and Pendlebury to return from France with their shares of the proceeds] You mean you both trust us?
- Shorty: Oh, come off it, gov. You're as straight a pair of gentlemen as I ever worked for.
- Lackery: Hear hear!
- [Holland enters the yard and sees Lackery wobble past on a bicycle]
- Henry Holland: You're teaching the wrong man!
- Pendlebury: Well, I had to change him over. Shorty can't ride a bicycle.
- [Lackery falls]
- Henry Holland: Doesn't look as if he can either.
- Shorty: We're learning him.
- Henry Holland: Why couldn't you learn Shorty?
- Pendlebury: Because Lackery's color-blind.
- Henry Holland: What's that got to do with it?
- Pendlebury: Oh my dear Holland, do use your intelligence! If a policeman were to come along and see a green sunset over a purple sea...
- Henry Holland: All right, all right, spare me the details.
- Pendlebury: Now it's all over, I suppose I may dare say it's been a most remarkable coup.
- Shorty: The biggest job of its kind since One-Eyed Dobson got away with the GIs' pay packets. Two million dollars, Grosvenor Square, 'forty-five.
- Henry Holland: That was before devaluation. And this is one million pounds.
- Shorty: Oh, that's right. Blimey. We've got the record!
- Shorty: I didn't like to say so, but I don't really fancy going to Paris meself.
- Henry Holland: Why?
- Shorty: Well a friend of mine, he pinched a couple of tickets for the Test Match, see? I wouldn't half like to see that.
- Lackery: Bellamy's? In Bromley?
- Shorty: That's right. Last June. Twelver.
- Lackery: I was casing that joint the night you got pinched.
- Shorty: Well, what do you know? Shorty Fisher.
- Lackery: Nice to meet you.
- Pendlebury: Excuse me, I may be a bit slow but do I understand that in fact, you two are both professional criminals?
- Shorty: Well, what else do you take us for, rutty snoopers?
- Lackery: What's the setup?