John Huston credited as playing...
McTarry (M)
- Sir James: Calamity makes strange be-bedfellows. But, why, I wonder, in the strength of your unity, do you disturb an old-fashioned gentleman in his retirement?
- M: We need your inspirational leadership in this dark hour.
- Le Grand: Please give us the benefit of your inconquerable powers of deduction.
- Ransome: For the freedom loving peoples of the world!
- Smernov: For the sake of the glorious, socialist revolution.
- Sir James: If I may interrupt this flow of cliche, it is now that time of day I have set apart for - Debussy.
- M: Debussy. He plays Debussy every afternoon from sunset until its too dark to read the music. Stands on his head a lot. Eats royal jelly. Let's his intestines down and washes them by hand. Something he learned during his sojourn in Tibet.
- Ransome: But why, why at the height of his powers did Bond decide to retire?
- Le Grand: Mata Hari, my dear friend.
- Ransome: What's the connection?
- Le Grand: The woman in his life.
- Ransome: I don't get it?
- Le Grand: It was his painful duty to lure her across the Spanish frontier to France - where he stood her in front of a firing squad.
- M: He really loved - that woman.