Christopher Plummer credited as playing...
Col. Herbert Kappler
- Col. Herbert Kappler: You're alone?
- Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty: I am.
- Col. Herbert Kappler: Not afraid I'll shoot you?
- Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty: No. If you were going to kill me, your man would have already done it in my room.
- Col. Herbert Kappler: That is so.
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- Col. Herbert Kappler: But believe me, at this moment, nothing would give me greater pleasure.
- Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty: Well, when it comes down to it, a bullet's your answer to just about everything, isn't it? The only argument you've got.
- Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty: Colonel Kappler! What a surprise.
- Col. Herbert Kappler: Not for me, Monsignor. I was looking forward to continuing our talk.
- Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty: Were you, now? Well, I would have though we'd covered just about everything there was to say.
- Col. Herbert Kappler: Ah... but that was before I had given you my...
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- Col. Herbert Kappler: autograph...
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- Col. Herbert Kappler: before I'd heard of your reputation for being so amusing.
- Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty: You also have quite a reputation.
- Col. Herbert Kappler: True, but I am German...
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- Col. Herbert Kappler: and know my enemies.
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- Col. Herbert Kappler: You're Irish. How strange to feel such concern for the enemies of your country!
- Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty: Speaking of your enemies, that's just about the entire civilized world, isn't it?
- Col. Herbert Kappler: I was told you had wit. I find you disappointingly obvious.
- Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty: Well, forgive me. I just wanted to make sure that you understood my meaning.
- Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty: Colonel, do I get the idea that you're tryin' to put a crimp in my social life?
- Col. Herbert Kappler: Damn you and damn your social life, priest!