Sean Connery credited as playing...
Maj. Gen. Urquhart
- Lt. General Frederick "Boy" Browning: [last lines, at General Browning's headquarters in Holland. After being extracted from the Arnhem debacle, General Urquhart arrives there and is greeted by dozens of geese in Browning's yard; their honking sounds like scornful laughter] Welcome, Roy. How do you feel?
- Major General Urquhart: I'm not sure I'll know for a while. But I'm sorry for the way it worked out.
- Lt. General Frederick "Boy" Browning: You did all you could.
- Major General Urquhart: Yes, but did everybody else?
- Lt. General Frederick "Boy" Browning: They've got a bed for you upstairs, if you want it.
- Major General Urquhart: I took 10,000 of our finest troops to Arnhem; I've come back with less than 2,000. I don't feel much like sleeping.
- Lt. General Frederick "Boy" Browning: I've just been on to Monty. He's very proud, and pleased.
- Major General Urquhart: [incredulous] PLEASED!
- Lt. General Frederick "Boy" Browning: According to himself, technically, Market Garden was 90% successful.
- Major General Urquhart: But what do YOU think?
- Lt. General Frederick "Boy" Browning: Well, as you know, I always felt we tried to go a bridge too far.
- Corporal Hancock: Sir.
- [Offers mug of tea]
- Major General Urquhart: Hancock. I've got lunatics laughing at me from the woods. My original plan has been scuppered now that the jeeps haven't arrived. My communications are completely broken down. Do you really believe any of that can be helped by a cup of tea?
- Corporal Hancock: Couldn't hurt, sir.
- [Urquhart accepts his mug of tea]
- Major General Urquhart: [looking at the escaped lunatics pointing and laughing at the British paratroops] Think they know something we don't?
- Maj. General Roy Urqhart: When you first named me to this command, I told you I had never jumped before, but I felt I should at least give it a go. You told me, 'Roy, you're much too old and far too large for that sort of thing.' Well, I didn't tell you at the time, but you did me a favor. You see, I'm prone to airsickness.
- Lt. General Browning: Good God. Every time?
- Maj. General Roy Urqhart: Well, we'll soon see.