Stanley Holloway credited as playing...
Pendlebury
- Henry Holland: A minute later, the guard will appear around this corner, and you, Pendlebury, will detain him for at least half a minute. Ask him for a light, ask him the way, ask him anything, but keep him there, we must have those thirty seconds.
- Pendlebury: Edgar.
- Henry Holland: I beg your pardon?
- Pendlebury: Isn't one supposed to say that when one's being briefed? On my rare visits to the cinema...
- Henry Holland: The word is "roger."
- Pendlebury: Oh, roger. How silly of me.
- Miss Evesham: [greeting Holland and Pendlebury on their tipsy return from a celebratory dinner] You naughty men, waking us all up at this hour.
- Pendlebury: A thousand pardons.
- Henry Holland: [Restraining Pendlebury as he's about to enter] Wipe your feet.
- Pendlebury: A little celebration.
- Miss Evesham: Already? Your holidays don't start till tomorrow.
- Henry Holland: Today is tomorrow.
- Pendlebury: "O polished perturbation! Golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide!" Henry IV, part two.
- Miss Evesham: Good night, you naughty men. Don't forget to switch off.
- Pendlebury: By Jove, Holland, it's a good job we're both honest men.
- Henry Holland: It is indeed, Pendlebury.
- Henry Holland: I must apologize, gentlemen, for the somewhat informal manner in which we effected our introduction, but my colleague and I have a certain proposition which we'd like to put to you. I might almost call it a gilt-edged proposition, although paradoxically it does entail a measure of risk. However, when I quote the anticipated dividend, I'm sure that you will both agree with me that the...
- [There is a noise at the open window]
- Pendlebury: Not another one, surely.
- Henry Holland: Tell him we're suited.
- Pendlebury: Well, you might as well know. I was lying. I am a thief. It was madness to attempt it. We weren't cut out for crime, either of us.
- Policeman: We?
- Pendlebury: My partner and I.
- Sidewalk Vendor: Your partner? Here, if you're working with the fence who's got them other pictures...
- Policeman: Shh! Carry on.
- Pendlebury: Oh I make no excuses. All my life it's been my ambition to surround myself with rare and beautiful things. Suddenly faced with this golden opportunity...
- Sidewalk Vendor: Here, you call that picture of mine rare and beautiful?
- Pendlebury: Since you will keep on interrupting me, you ought to know it's a charming example of an early Rochet, while he was still under the influence of Corot.
- Sidewalk Vendor: Oh yeah? How much is it worth?
- Pendlebury: Ten pound, to those who can afford it.
- Sidewalk Vendor: Oh blimey. I've had it marked up for five bob.
- 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!
- Henry Holland: Pendlebury.
- Pendlebury: Yeah?
- Henry Holland: Pendlebury.
- Pendlebury: What?
- Henry Holland: May I call you Alfred?
- Pendlebury: Alfred? Call me Al. And I'll call you... Henry, isn't it.
- Henry Holland: A name I never cared for.
- Pendlebury: Hm?
- Henry Holland: Mm. Call me Dutch.
- Pendlebury: Dutch. Yes.
- [They shake hands]
- Pendlebury: Good night, Dutch.
- Henry Holland: Good night, Al.
- Customs Official: L'argent.
- Pendlebury: Oh, sadist torturers! Money.
- Customs Official: Your foreign currency? What do you have?
- Pendlebury: There!
- [throws his money in the air]
- Pendlebury: Count it!
- [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!
- 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?
- Pendlebury: Guns, yes. It's essential we're armed. Here we are. Here's yours.
- Henry Holland: Is it loaded?
- Pendlebury: Yes. It's a present from Margate. It fires a stick of rock.
- Pendlebury: Edgar!
- Henry Holland: I beg your pardon.
- Pendlebury: Err... isn't one supposed to say that when one is being briefed? On my rare visits to the cinema...
- Henry Holland: The word is roger.