The Professionals (1966)

Robert Ryan: Ehrengard

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• Hans Ehrengard : Nine more of their horses are still left. You gonna shoot them, too?

  Rico : I guess we'll have to. We can't spare the food and water.

  Hans Ehrengard : We could cut them loose.

  [Dolworth laughs] 

  Hans Ehrengard : What's so funny?

  Bill Dolworth : People. We just killed ten men, nobody bats an eye. But when it comes to one of God's most stupid animals...

  Hans Ehrengard : But harmless.

  Bill Dolworth : Nothing's harmless in this desert unless it's dead.

• Jake Sharp : We could all do with a rest.

  Hans Ehrengard : A shave would be a relief, too.

  Jake Sharp : So would a bath.

  Bill Dolworth : Might as well throw in a woman. Any size, any age, any color. Any woman.

• Hans Ehrengard : Dynamite in the hands of a fool means death.

  Bill Dolworth : In this case, it could mean life. Ours. If we're lucky enough to get back to this rat trap, it might be touch and go. All you gotta do is light this fuse. You got ten seconds to run like hell. Then dynamite, not faith, will move that mountain into this pass. Peace, brother.

• Jake Sharp : A cloud o' dust! Could be Mister Raza.

  Hans Ehrengard : Could be most anything. Even a whirling dervish.

  Rico : That, gentlemen, is the whirlingest dervish of them all.

• Hans Ehrengard : Draw your pay, mister.

  Horseman : Well you wanted him broken, didn't ya?

  Hans Ehrengard : Yeah. But not ruined. Now get outa here.

• Rico : It takes getting used to.

  Hans Ehrengard : Broiling by day. Freezing by night. Alkali dust choking every hole in your body. How in the name of God does anybody live here long enough to get used to it.

  Rico : Men tempered like steel. Tough breed. Men who learn how to endure.

  Hans Ehrengard : Like you and Dolworth.

  Rico : Oh, no. Men like Raza.

• Hans Ehrengard : God almighty, I've known heat before, but this is... I hate the desert. It's got no... pity.

  [passes out] 

• J.W. Grant : I'm afraid you'll have to make them do.

  Hans Ehrengard : Mister Grant, I can make them go, but I can't make 'em do.

• Hans Ehrengard : Rico! All clear. By the way, I forgot to bring your wooden cross. Your *upside-down* cross.

  [gun battle erupts] 

• Bill Dolworth : Beautiful.

  Hans Ehrengard : Is that Mrs. Grant?

  Bill Dolworth : *That* is a soldier. Lieutenant Sí Sí Chiquita. Now, there's a woman worth a ransom. She never says no.

• Jake Sharp : Mr. D, whatever got a loving man like you in the dynamite business?

  Bill Dolworth : Well, I'll tell you. I was born with a powerful passion to create. I can't write, can't paint, can't make up a song...

  Hans Ehrengard : So you explode things.

  Bill Dolworth : Well that's how the world was born. Biggest damn explosion you ever saw.

• Hans Ehrengard : Could be anybody. Even friendly.

• Hans Ehrengard : If it isn't hot, it's cold. If it isn't cold, it's raining.