Sean Connery credited as playing...
Col. Arbuthnot
- Colonel Arbuthnott: He was interested in the future of India. A bit impractical - he thought the British ought to move out!
- Hercule Poirot: Tout de même, I must thank the pipe-smoking Colonel Arbuthnott for a remark which finally resolved all my confusions about this, uh, this extraordinary case. I prefer to set aside the fact that he denied ever having spoken to Colonel Armstrong in India, and yet he remembered in great detail the decorations which Colonel Armstrong had won years earlier in France. I prefer to remember his views on the British jury system:
- Colonel Arbuthnott: [in a brief flashback] Trial by twelve good men and true... is a sound system.
- Mrs. Hubbard: For my daughter... and my granddaughter.
- Colonel Arbuthnott: In memory of Colonel Armstrong, a great soldier... and an even greater friend.
- Mary Debenham: And for Mrs. Armstrong - they took me into their home and their hearts.
- Greta Ohlsson: For their Daisy, and mine. God forgive me.
- Countess Andrenyi: For my... my sister and my niece.
- Countess Andrenyi: Cassetti... for the grief you brought to my beloved wife.
- Colonel Arbuthnott: Get your hands off Miss Debenham!
- Hercule Poirot: I was not aware that I was keeping my hands *on* Miss Debenham!
- Mary Debenham: [observing Poirot after he sneezed] What a funny little man!
- Colonel Arbuthnott: Obviously a frog.
- Colonel Arbuthnott: May we go?
- Hercule Poirot: You may with my assurance that our foreigner's lips shall be sealed.
- Colonel Arbuthnott: Are you suggesting that I'm fool enough to have entered Ratchett's cabin, murdered him, cleaned my "peep" and dropped it in the ashtray before leaving?
- Hercule Poirot: No, Colonel Arbuthnott.