When Eight Bells Toll (1971)

Robert Morley: Sir Arthur Artford Jones ('Uncle Arthur')

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Quotes 

• [Uncle Arthur is discussing the work involved in dealing with the bullion robbers] 

  Philip Calvert : I have everybody breathing down my neck: the Admiralty, the Government, the Americans... and the insurance assessors. Grubby little men with gabardine raincoats and dandruff.

  Philip Calvert : Well I don't have dandruff, Sir, if it's any consolation.

  Uncle Arthur : Yes, I don't think you need demonstrate your questionable attitude to authority *quite* so early.

• [Uncle Arthur staggers out of a cabin, looking very seasick] 

  Uncle Arthur : Boats would be wonderful... if only one didn't have to go to sea in them.

• Uncle Arthur : Any word from Buttercup?

  Radio operator : Buttercup?

  Uncle Arthur : Uh, uh, Dorsey?

  Radio operator : Oh, you mean Caroline. Any moment now.