Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
Bernard Fox: Max
Quotes
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[Max, on the phone at a phone booth, panicking of telling him his news about progress of attempting to get back their stolen diamond]
Max : Double X? Uh, yeah. I'm afraid we- we- we've had another complication.
Insp. Bouchet : [through the phone] I'm beginning to think that you're the complication!
[now showing him at his office]
Insp. Bouchet : [nearly yells it through the phone, but suddenly realizes his receptionist just across the glass wall, and gets his voice down and addresses the diamond in a way, so he couldn't hear him talking about the diamond in a way that reveals any clue that he is behind the diamond robbery] THAT- That "item" should have been in my hands by now!
Max : [through the phone] Oh, don't worry, sir. It's still in the gas tank.
Insp. Bouchet : Then bring me the gas tank! What are you waiting for?
Max : [shown on the phone at the phone booth] We've lost them again, sir. We don't know where they are.
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Max : Excuse me, sir. There's some very impressive racing cars here, but I don't seem to see the little Volkswagen.
Showroom MC : Ah, you mean the Douglas car. It will be here. Patience, my friend, patience.
Quincey : If one more person says "patience" to me, I'll - ...
[Max taps his shoulder]
Max : We better have it now, because if we don't turn up with that diamond, Double X is going to mark the spot where we're buried.
Quincey : [sees Herbie finally arriving] Here, here. Don't dig our graves just yet.
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Jim Douglas : I, I hate to mention this again... but I heard some clunking...
Wheely Applegate : You mean that nonsense about the gas tank?
Jim Douglas : Yeah, that's...
Wheely Applegate : All right, let's get it straight, once and for all... who the mechanic is around here, okay? You say it's the gas tank, and I say it isn't the gas tank. You see? It isn't the gas tank. It's this... rock that was in the gas tank.
[Clears throat]
Jim Douglas : Hold it! There's only one kind of rock that glistens like that.
Wheely Applegate : Well, sure, quartz. You can find millions of'em around any quarry in Philly.
Jim Douglas : But... not one that's worth... 6,000,000 bucks.
Wheely Applegate : Huh?
Jim Douglas : L 'etoile dejoie.
Wheely Applegate : The tall, the what?
Jim Douglas : Etoile dejoie.
Wheely Applegate : [Gasps] Oh, wow! That's...
[Gasps]
Wheely Applegate : That's the biggest hunk of diamond I've ever seen in my life.
Jim Douglas : What I don't understand is how it - The black sedan!
Wheely Applegate : Huh? Where?
Jim Douglas : No, no, no. They're the ones that robbed the museum. Don't you see? They weren't trying to knock us out of the race. They were trying to get this out of Herbie.
Max : [But suddenly coming behind] Thank you for helping us, gentlemen, and up with your hands.
Quincey : You gave us the slip for the last time.
Max : We'll take the rock.
Wheely Applegate : [Clearing throat] I don't suppose you'd believe that was just a big hunk of quartz.
Max : [Chuckles] The rock. Let me have it.
