Brannigan (1975)

Richard Attenborough: Cmdr. Swann

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• Brannigan : Commander, it's my breakfast time. I'd sure like, uh, two over easy, some bacon crisp, and a short stack.

  Cmdr. Charles Swann : [to the waiter]  Right. I think what my guest would like is two eggs lightly fried on either side, a couple rashers of bacon, and a modest portion of pancakes.

  Brannigan : Not too modest on the pancakes.

• Cmdr. Charles Swann : This isn't Chicago, you know, Brannigan.

  Brannigan : That's right, commander. You can't buy a decent burger any place... .

  [unintelligible] 

• [to Brannigan] 

  Cmdr. Charles Swann : [yells]  I've asked you politely. Now I'll ask you impolitely. Give me that gun!

• Cmdr. Charles Swann : I just hope you don't lose 'em back in the colonies!

• Cmdr. Charles Swann : In all my years at The Yard, I've never received a finger in the morning post. Lord knows what they'll be sending us next.

• Cmdr. Charles Swann : You're a bloody magnet for trouble.

• Cmdr. Charles Swann : [Speaking of the private automobile that Brannigan commandeered for his police chase and that he wrecked]  Incidentally, regarding that automobile, where would you like it shipped?

  Brannigan : Huh?

  Cmdr. Charles Swann : You bought it, you know.

• Cmdr. Charles Swann : Would you like a glass of sherry?

  Brannigan : Well, actually, I'd like a boilermaker. That's whisky - neat, you'd say - and a beer chaser, cold, if you can find it.

• Cmdr. Charles Swann : Under our judicial system, Mr. Larkin has the right to apply for bail.

  Brannigan : Well, unfortunately, we have the same law. That's how we lost him.

  Cmdr. Charles Swann : Rather careless, wasn't it?

• Brannigan : Should I call you Sir Charles?

  Cmdr. Charles Swann : I think Swann'll do nicely, thank you. I only use the "Sir" for theatre tickets and table reservations.

• Insp. Traven : Well, Guv, what do you think of our friend Brannigan?

  Cmdr. Charles Swann : Well, he's an American.

• Brannigan : If it was up to me I'd get some men out thumpin' on the streets, passing out some 'e pluribus unum'. That's what 90 per cent of police work is today.

  Cmdr. Charles Swann : The murder rate in your country, I'm sure, gives *ample* testimony to your superior police methods.

• Cmdr. Charles Swann : Do you think you can raise that money by tomorrow morning?

  Mel Fields : That's no problem. Fortunately Mr. Larkin has generous and influential associates in the States.

  Brannigan : Translation, Commander: hoods!

  Mel Fields : A bank draft is on its way.

  Brannigan : Mob money, squeezed out of hookers and skimmed off of casinos.

• Cmdr. Charles Swann : They certainly made bloody fools of us in that Piccadilly caper.

• Brannigan : They pulled a Murphy!

  Cmdr. Charles Swann : A Murphy?

• Cmdr. Charles Swann : I want you in Chicago alive, you big sod. I don't want you in London as an unsolved homicide. We're short-staffed as it is.

• Cmdr. Charles Swann : Dammit, I'm having to take more flak than an air gunner over Normandy on this. Forget the commissioner. Now we've got the Home Secretary blowing his top, demanding to know what kind of a lunatic I've turned loose. This isn't Chicago, you know, Brannigan!

  Brannigan : That's right, Commander. You can't buy a decent hamburger any place.

• Cmdr. Charles Swann : You're a bloody magnet for trouble!

• Cmdr. Charles Swann : Poor ignorant wee laddie, isn't he?