The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

Anthony Quayle: Adm. Wilhelm Canaris

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• Admiral Canaris : That meeting, you should have seen it, Radl. There was Hitler, first ranting, then cajoling, then perfectly rational... then raging and stamping like a - like the ringmaster of some freak circus! Goebbels, hopping from one foot to another like a - like a schoolboy. Bormann... hmph... a vulture, perched in the corner, watching, listening, never speaking. And Mussolini - Mussolini! - an automaton, Radl! And I looked round that room, and I wondered: am I the only one who can see it? And if so, what must I look like to them?

• 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.

• Admiral Canaris : This operation could make the Charge of the Light Brigade look like a sensible military exercise!