Conspirator (1949)

Robert Taylor: Maj. Michael Curragh

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• Alek : Perhaps you may have forgotten that we are still in a war - a cold war.

  Maj. Michael Curragh : I had not forgotten.

  Alek : Good. Because then I don't have to remind you that wars must be fought with ruthlessness, self-sacrifice.

  Maj. Michael Curragh : I've always been quite ready to make sacrifices.

  Alek : But you must know that no personal consideration or domestic inconvenience should stand in the way. As a soldier Major, you know there are always casualties in war.

  Maj. Michael Curragh : Casualties? What are you driving at?

  Radek : Here are the orders from Radek, Major. The Bureau directs that your wife must be done away with.

  Maj. Michael Curragh : Then I withdraw from the party, now, do you hear me? I withdraw from the party.

  Alek : You swore to dedicate your life to the party and to the struggle. One does not resign Major, you know that. You swore to be bound by an iron discipline, to follow orders wherever they led you. One never questions the party, Comrade. One never questions. Never questions.

  Radek : Yes Major, you are the one who is going to liquidate her.

• Melinda Greyton : Michael, let's go swimming.

  Maj. Michael Curragh : Can't. No suits.

  Melinda Greyton : Well, we could take a sun-bath couldn't we?

  Maj. Michael Curragh : That we could.

• Maj. Michael Curragh : The only decent thing a wife can do is to behave like a wife. Don't meddle in things you don't understand.

• Melinda Greyton : Michael is resigning his commission. And going in for politics. He's going to be a Communist.

  Maj. Michael Curragh : That's not very funny.

  Col. Hammerbrook : Ha ha. I think it is. By Jove, Michael. I never knew your wife had such a sense of humor.