Our Man Flint (1966)

Lee J. Cobb: Cramden

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• Derek Flint : Breakfast, sir?

  Mr. Cramden : I had lunch two hours ago.

  Derek Flint : Oh, I must still be on Moscow time.

  Mr. Cramden : Moscow? Business?

  Derek Flint : No. Ballet, sir.

  Mr. Cramden : You travelled to Moscow to watch a ballet?

  Derek Flint : No, to teach.

• Mr. Cramden : Flint, I owe you my life. The medic said four more seconds, and I...

  Derek Flint : *Three* more seconds.

  Mr. Cramden : Damn it, man, is there anything you don't know?

  Derek Flint : A great many things, sir.

• Mr. Cramden : Your code book.

  Derek Flint : If you don't mind, sir, I prefer to use my own personal code.

  Mr. Cramden : But I would rather you use the government code.

  Derek Flint : I already know mine. It's a mathematical progression, 40-26-36. It's based on...

  Mr. Cramden : I can imagine what it's based on.

• Mr. Cramden : Flint, the government needs you.

  Derek Flint : Yes, well, it's good to be wanted, sir.

• Mr. Cramden : Flint, the world's in trouble!

  Derek Flint : Well, it usually is, but it manages to extricate itself without my help.

• Derek Flint : I don't need any men.

  Mr. Cramden : You said you were joining the team.

  Derek Flint : But the team's not joining me.

• [after Flint guns down Z.O.W.I.E. guards and Cramden wants to have him arrested] 

  Derek Flint : I noticed that these men were wearing Battle of the Bulge ribbons.

  Mr. Cramden : There is no ribbon for the Battle of the Bulge.

  Derek Flint : Exactly.

• Mr. Cramden : Flint, in the past you and I have had our differences of, eh, well, discipline is a vital factor, eh, that every citizen has got, eh...

  Derek Flint : Don't wave the flag in the bathroom. Just come to the point.

• Mr. Cramden : Flint?

  American General : It can't be!

  Mr. Cramden : Of course it can, that's why he's Flint! Purple alert!

• [first lines] 

  Mr. Cramden : Gentlemen? Gentlemen, it's quite true. The weather continues to defy nature. Overnight the temperature at the Arctic has risen 4.9F.

• Mr. Cramden : Stall, damn it! Flint is alive!

• Mr. Cramden : [referring to Flint]  He was the best - undisciplined but the best.

• Mr. Cramden : Well, if you'll write down the qualifications you believe necessary for the assignment, our computer'll give us the ideal man. Stand by computers.

  [exits to the next room were stacks of punched cards are feed into the computer and the computer provides its written response] 

  French Diplomat : Derek Flint! My country awarded him the Croix de Guerre!

• Mr. Cramden : I'll arrange for your transportation to Marseilles.

  Derek Flint : Oh, no, that won't be necessary, sir. I have my own jet.

• Mr. Cramden : Gentlemen, the temperature in the Arctic is still rising and so is the water level.