Fräulein (1958)

Mel Ferrer: Maj. Foster MacLain

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• Prof. Julius Angermann : I'm getting so I don't care who wins this war, if only it were over.

  Maj. Foster MacLain : Isn't that rather dangerous talk here in Germany?

  Prof. Julius Angermann : It's dangerous talk anywhere. My only hope now is that the world will be a better place when this is over.

  Maj. Foster MacLain : Let's say it can't be worse.

  Prof. Julius Angermann : It's a scientific fact, I believe, that the darkness is usually followed by the dawn.

• Maj. Foster MacLain : There's one thing about visitors everybody likes, not always their arriving, but, definitely their leaving.

• Maj. Foster MacLain : Sorry, fräulein, you've got to stay here!

• Maj. Foster MacLain : To list the dead is no problem. When it comes to the living in this country, they're the ones who are really buried.

• Maj. Foster MacLain : We won the war with guns and planes. Now, we have to do it all over again with pencil and paper.

• Cpl. S. Hanks : The city's full of entertainment like this. There're women wrestlers, women prizefighters.

  Maj. Foster MacLain : Well, I guess when you've gone through what they have, anything's good for a laugh.

• Maj. Foster MacLain : Next stop, Bingen. The famous Mäuseturm, Tower of the Mice. There it is. Bingen, just as the book said. The Tower of the Mice. Pretty romantic, isn't it? Can't you just see knights in shining armor with their maidens fair. The stuff operas made of. I'd like to know how many German girls have been here with their young Lieutenants.

• Erika Angermann : There it is: the rock of the Lorelei. There is a legend about that rock. About a maiden sitting there, smiling down to boatman who can't take their eyes off her.

  Maj. Foster MacLain : But, he better be careful or he'll crack his boat up on the rock.

  Erika Angermann : That's exactly what happened in the legend.

• Lt. Berdie Dubbin : I could be wrong in my judgement, Major. I'm sorry. The only time I ever saw - the young lady was in that place with all those other girls.

  Maj. Foster MacLain : Now, come now, girl. Don't you think this war of ours against the Germans should end, now that its over?

  Lt. Berdie Dubbin : As you say, Major.

• Erika Angermann : It must be Rheinfels coming up behind us. We mustn't miss it. They built it sometime during the 12th Century.

  Maj. Foster MacLain : I don't want to look at castles anymore and I've thrown away the guidebook. It's *you* I want to see.

• Maj. Foster MacLain : I'm trying to persuade her to come to America.

  Lt. Berdie Dubbin : America? Well, no Fräulein in Berlin expects anything like that these days. Why - why a half a dozen pair of nylons will do just as well.

• Maj. Foster MacLain : You should have heard the General when I told him. "Fräuleins. Fräuleins. Fräuleins. That's all I hear," he said. "Everybody wants to take fräuleins home."

• Erika Angermann : How did you manage to find me here?

  Maj. Foster MacLain : Well, frankly, I wasn't looking for you. Its was your father. The minute the shooting stopped I went back to the Rhine. The house was gone. Believe me, to find him again, I'd have gone to the ends of the earth.

  Erika Angermann : Where do you think you are now?