The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

Robert Duvall: Colonel Radl

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Quotes 

• Col. Max Radl : A wink from a pretty girl at a party results rarely in climax, Karl. But a man is a fool not to push a suggestion as far as it will go.

• Colonel Kurt Steiner : You are going to jump in those clothes?

  Liam Devlin : It might look a bit silly going down Mr. Steiner, but I'll be hell of a lot safer when I land on the ground. There is an old poem I know, which freely translated from the Irish says, "I realized fear one morning, when the blare of the fox-hunters sound. When they are all chasing after the poor bloody fox, it's safer to be dressed like a hound."

  Col. Max Radl : You're quite a literary man, Devlin.

  Liam Devlin : The truth be known, Colonel, I'm a bloody literary genius.

• Col. Max Radl : [reading mission orders from Hitler]  "Herr Oberst Radl is acting under my direct and personal orders in a matter of the utmost importance to the Reich. All personnel, military and civil, without distinction of rank, will assist him in any way that Oberst Radl sees fit to demand... Adolf Hitler."

• Col. Max Radl : [Handing Devlin an envelope]  Your complete instructions

  Liam Devlin : What - all of it?

  [Holds the envelope to his ear and crinkles it] 

  Liam Devlin : No cyanide pill?

  Col. Max Radl : I couldn't conceive of a situation which would require you to take one!

• Col. Max Radl : Your meeting went well? The Führer had something specific in mind?

  Admiral Canaris : A simple exercise in logistics, nothing very complicated: he merely wants Winston Churchill brought from London to Berlin. And we are ordered to make a feasibility study. Today's Wednesday. By Friday he will forget it, but Himmler will not.

• Liam Devlin : You think I'd sell out.

  Col. Max Radl : It's just that you've been so expensive to buy in the first place.

• Col. Max Radl : Are you familiar with the works of Jung, Karl?

  Karl : I am aware of the works of Jung, not familiar, Herr Oberst.

  Col. Max Radl : A very great thinker. A rational man And yet he speaks of something called synchronicity, events having a coincidence in time, creating the feeling that a deeper motivation is involved.

• SS Officer : Herr Oberst Radl? In the name of the Fuhrer, you are under arrest.

  Col. Max Radl : May I be permitted to know the charge?