Gregory Peck credited as playing...
Prof. David Pollock
- Major Sylvester Pennington Sloane: May I have a word with you please Professor Pollock?
- David Pollock: Well... if it's about that small outstanding bill at the bookstore there is a simple explanation: Poverty.
- Major Sylvester Pennington Sloane: No, it's nothing like that.
- David Pollock: Oh, in that case, how do you do?
- David Pollock: I'll meet you in Knightsbridge at the Kelly Hotel. I'm registered there under the name of O'Malley.
- Yasmin Azir: [confused] 'O'Malley'?
- David Pollock: Yeah, there's a discount if you're Irish.
- Beshraavi: [Offering Pollock a small platter of dried dates] Take a date, Mr. Pollock, as a gesture of friendship. I'm a very Arabian Arab, I'm afraid.
- David Pollock: [Takes a date, then offers one to the falcon] Friends?
- Beshraavi: Flesh, Mr. Pollock. Hassan eats only flesh.
- David Pollock: I thought he looked at it wistfully.
- Beshraavi: It must have been your fingers.
- Yasmin Azir: [At the races, both dressed up posh] Well, if it isn't Mr. Dillingham.
- David Pollock: By Jove, it's actually Lady Hetherington-Cartwright.
- Yasmin Azir: Don't overdo it.
- David Pollock: I didn't know you could.
- Webster: That cipher, *where is it*?
- David Pollock: Ask me later alligator.
- Webster: *Where is it*?
- David Pollock: I left it at Beshraavi's. After all, it belongs to him.
- Yussef Kasim: Wrong again teach. He snatched it. Belongs to this cat right here. Now where is it?
- David Pollock: Miss Azir, after all we've been through together couldn't you find it in your heart to put in a small word on my behalf?
- Yasmin Azir: He told me he had it in his pocket.
- David Pollock: [shaking head] Tattle tale.
- Yasmin Azir: You've got to listen to me!
- David Pollock: Boy, every time I try to listen to you someone either hits me over the head or tries to vaccinate me.
- Beshraavi: Those slippers are absolutely beautiful, my darling. Are you wearing them for my benefit?
- Yasmin Azir: Of course, Nejim. Mr. Pollock does not have your exotic refinements. He prefers nighties.
- David Pollock: She said it, I didn't.
- Beshraavi: Mr. Pollock, some Bedouins are in the habit of saying to their guests, "All that I possess is yours"... I am not one of them.
- David Pollock: Mrs. Ragheeb, I know this is a terrible time to trouble you, but I've got to know what that inscription means. I thought, perhaps, among your husband's notes... But he must have told you something. He must have mentioned where he got it, who gave it to him. We have to know.
- Ragheeb's Wife: "We"? Who's "we"?
- David Pollock: A girl. Her family's in great danger. Her mother and sisters, General Ali will kill them.
- Ragheeb's Wife: Is the girl named Yasmin Azir?
- David Pollock: Yes.
- Ragheeb's Wife: And she told you that her mother and her sisters are in danger?
- David Pollock: Yes.
- Ragheeb's Wife: Yasmin has no such family, Mr Pollock. There is only her father. General Ali would never harm him.
- David Pollock: Why not?
- Ragheeb's Wife: Because General Ali *is* her father.
- Yasmin Azir: Are you burning it?
- David Pollock: That's how you detect invisible ink. Weren't you ever in the Boy Scouts?
- Yasmin Azir: I flunked - the physical.
- David Pollock: Should have tried my troop, we'd have waived it.
- David Pollock: Let us through! That man's about to be killed!
- Policeman: I hardly think so, sir. This is England!
- David Pollock: Those stairs must lead somewhere.
- Yasmin Azir: Are you sure?
- David Pollock: If they don't, watch out for the last one!
- David Pollock: ...and dear Miss Azir. You know, for a poor subjugated Arab lady you lead one hell of an emancipated life. Mr. Beshraavi on the one hand and Mr. Yussef Kasim on the other. Do you get Sundays off?
- David Pollock: This isn't your house. This is my house, and you weren't invited, so go away!
- Yasmin Azir: I didn't even know if you were alive, but I came to warn you anyway.
- David Pollock: Warn me about what?
- Yasmin Azir: Nazim's men. They are on their way here to get the cipher back. You've got to get away.
- David Pollock: Now slow down a minute. Aren't you the same Miss Azir who just stood there while your friends tried to kill me?
- Yasmin Azir: Oh David! You don't think I enjoyed that?
- David Pollock: Oh! Well! So long as you didn't enjoy it!
- Yasmin Azir: Webster sold out to Nazim.
- David Pollock: It must be a popular indoor sport these days.
- Yasmin Azir: You're not including me I hope!
- David Pollock: Of course not. We're believing you today.
- Yasmin Azir: [At a construction site - after they've both lied about where they were going] David, you followed me, didn't you?
- David Pollock: No, I didn't! You went to the embassy, and I came here to my hotel.