Dirk Bogarde credited as playing...
Lt .Gen. Browning
- Brig. General James Gavin: So that's it. We're pulling them out. It was Nijmegen.
- Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur: It was the single road getting to Nijmegen.
- Lt. General Horrocks: No, it was after Nijmegen.
- Lt. General Frederick "Boy" Browning: And the fog, in England.
- Maj. General Stanislaw Sosabowski: Doesn't matter what it was. When one man says to another, "I know what let's do today, let's play the war game."... everybody dies.
- 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.
- [final plans are being discussed]
- Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning: Only the weather can stop us now.
- General Stanislaw Sosaboski: Weather. What of the Germans, General Browning. Don't you think that if we know Arnhem is so critical to their safety that they might know it too?
- Lt. General Frederick Browning: See here, General Sosaboski, I should think you would have more faith in Field Marshal Montgomery's plan.
- General Stanislaw Sosaboski: Faith? I will tell you how much faith I have. I am thinking of asking for a letter from you stating that I was ordered to go on this mission in case my men are massacred.
- Lt. General Frederick Browning: I see... I do see. Do you wish such a letter?
- General Stanislaw Sosaboski: No... In the case of massacre: what difference will it make?