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: 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.
- 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: [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.
- 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!
- 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.
- David Pollock: [Giving instructions to the driver of a large truck which is blocking the road] All right, mate. Lots of room, lots of room. That's it. Keep on going. Lots of leeway back there.
- David Pollock: Bring her on back, mate. Okay, fine. Plenty of leeway. Plenty of leeway. Lots of room. Right on back. Good.
- [Rear end of truck smashes through a brick wall]
- 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.
- Yasmin Azir: Yussef is not my boyfriend. I loathe him.
- David Pollock: Of course you do. You just do what he tells you because he's holding your family hostage back in the old country.
- Yasmin Azir: How did you know that?
- David Pollock: Oh, come on. I've seen that movie.
- Yasmin Azir: General Ali Ben Ali, the man he works for, threatened to kill my mother and sisters unless I cooperated with him.
- David Pollock: And Beshraavi, who's he got, your Uncle Max from Newark?
- Yasmin Azir: What do you mean?
- David Pollock: Forget it. If you want to live with Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, that's your business.
- Yasmin Azir: This is like a recurring dream I used to have.
- David Pollock: How did it end?
- Yasmin Azir: Don't ask!
- David Pollock: I have a vivid imagination... I must say... I never saw myself unpacking a prime minister!