George Peppard credited as playing...
1st Lt. John Curtis USAAF
- [Curtis is about to make a parachute jump out of an aeroplane]
- Lt. John Curtis: If you're chute doesn't open, change it for a harp!
- [Curtis jumps]
- Robert Henshaw: [shouting after Curtis] I'm not musical.
- [Henshaw jumps]
- Lt. John Curtis: You don't know?
- Gen. Boyd: No.
- Lt. John Curtis: What do you call this mission? Operation Question Mark?
- Lt. John Curtis: You really don't have any choice. You may as well trust me.
- Nora Van Ostamgen: [long pause] I trust you.
- Prof. Hoffer: We need men like you. These days, good engineers are scarcer than...
- Lt. John Curtis: than good coffee.
- Lt. John Curtis: They're testing a new one - long range.
- Phil Bradley: How long?
- Lt. John Curtis: They call it the New York rocket.
- Lt. John Curtis: How'd you get on?
- Phil Bradley: Sent back to the base. They said they'd let me know.
- Lt. John Curtis: What?
- Phil Bradley: They didn't say.
- Lt. John Curtis: Probably planning some new secret weapon. That reminds me, can I give you a ride in my cab?
- Phil Bradley: Well, thank you very much. If it's not out of your way. Boodles?
- Lt. John Curtis: Boodles? What's that?
- Phil Bradley: Club, old boy.
- Dutch Barge Skipper: This is your way to the hotel. You vill show your papers and rooms like other engineers. The Gestapo will not suspect nothing.
- Lt. John Curtis: I don't like the double negative.
- Dutch Barge Skipper: Sorry, I do not understand the English too well.
- Lt. John Curtis: Glad to hear it.
- Nora Van Ostamgen: Do you have children?
- Lt. John Curtis: No.
- Nora Van Ostamgen: Are you married?
- Lt. John Curtis: No.
- Nora Van Ostamgen: Then, it's easy to play the hero.