Help! (1965)

Patrick Cargill: Superintendent

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Quotes 

• Superintendent : So this is the famous ring?

  Ringo : I'm in fear of me life, you know!

  Superintendent : And these are the famous Beatles?

  John : So this is the famous Scotland Yard, eh?

  Superintendent : And how long do you think you'll last?

  John : Can't say fairer than that. The Great Train Robbery, eh? How's that going?

• Superintendent : Allow me. I'm a bit of a famous mimic in my own small way, you know James Cagney.

  [imitating Ringo on the phone] 

  Superintendent : Hello, there, this is the famous Ringo here, gear fab. What is it that I can do for you, as it were, gear fab?

  George : Not a bit like Cagney.

• [Ringo is trapped in a cellar with a tiger] 

  Superintendent : Good lord, it's Rajah, the famous Bengal man-eater who escaped from London Zoo this morning.

  John : Good Lord! So it famous is!

  Superintendent : Oh, don't worry, he's absolutely harmless. All you have to do is sing Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from the famous Ninth Symphony in D minor.

  John : Of course! Why didn't you think of that you twit!

• Superintendent : Oh come on now lads, don't be windy, where's that famous pluck?

  John : I haven't got any, have you George?

  George : Did have.

  Paul : I have had.

  Ringo : I will have! Lead on!

• Superintendent : [cowering under his desk]  There's a strong case for arming the police. We aren't all masochists, you know.