The Intelligence Men (1965)

Ernie Wise: Ernie Sage

Quotes 

• Eric Morecambe : [on seeing that Phillipe, who is sitting next to him, has just collapsed into his soup after being poisoned]  Waiter!

  Ernie Sage : Yes?

  Eric Morecambe : I have a complaint to make.

  Ernie Sage : What?

  Eric Morecambe : There's a dead man in this soup.

• Eric Morecambe : I've resigned; I've finished.

  Ernie Sage : You can't resign. The whole relationship between East and West depends on you.

  Eric Morecambe : I'm not worried about that. And do you know why?

  Ernie Sage : Why?

  Eric Morecambe : I'm from the North, that's why.

• Eric Morecambe : Are there any birds involved?

  Reed : Birds?

  Eric Morecambe : Birds, son. He knows nothing. Birds. Beautiful spies with negligees and things.

  Colonel Grant : There's never been an operation yet that hasn't exploited the... physical attractions of women.

  Eric Morecambe : Physical attractions of women. A, well, you see, that changes the whole thing completely because if I'm going to get involved with fast women, who use... sex...

  [to Ernie] 

  Eric Morecambe : I'm sorry about that.

  Ernie Sage : That's all right.

  Eric Morecambe : ...who use sex for their own unscrupulous ends, well... I'm the man for the job.