The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Hardy Krüger: Heinrich Dorfmann
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Quotes
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Heinrich Dorfmann : Mr. Towns, you behave as if stupidity were a virtue. Why is that?
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Lew Moran : It may not be the best possible advertisement. but Frank Towns is probably one of the few really great pilots left in this push-button world of yours.
Heinrich Dorfmann : Oh, really?
Lew Moran : [angrily] Yes, 'Oh, really!' He was flying by the seat of his pants in planes that were nothing more than bits and pieces before you even went to school!
Heinrich Dorfmann : That's precisely what is wrong - he has remembered everything and learned nothing!
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Heinrich Dorfmann : I told you there would be no difficulty in building this aeroplane. I also told you it would require an outstanding pilot to fly it. The only thing outstanding about you, Mr. Towns, is your stupidity.
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Heinrich Dorfmann : Gentlemen, I have been examining this aeroplane.
Frank Towns : Yeah?
Heinrich Dorfmann : Yes. We've everything we need here to build a new one and fly it out. Now, if you'd like to have a look at my calculations, I don't know whether you can read my handwriting.
Frank Towns : Are you trying to be funny?
Heinrich Dorfmann : What did you say?
Frank Towns : I said, are you trying to be funny?
Heinrich Dorfmann : That is precisely the reaction I would have expected from a man of your obvious limitations.
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'Ratbags' Crow : Sometimes I wonder how you chaps never won the war.
Heinrich Dorfmann : War?
'Ratbags' Crow : [making sputtering sounds like an airplane and gesturung to suggest a plane flying in a mocking fashion]
Heinrich Dorfmann : [trying not to respond in kind] I wasn't involved.
'Ratbags' Crow : [makes a sound like a machine gun, falls down on the sand, and rolls over] That's it then! That's why they never won!
'Ratbags' Crow : [in a mocking tone] They didn't have old Heinrich!
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Heinrich Dorfmann : I must say, without a radio, you would have expected them to turn for their alternate airport by now. Wouldn't you?
Trucker Cobb : I don't know, you grew up boy? Are you from the oil fields?
Heinrich Dorfmann : My brother's there Dorfmann. I went to visit him on a holiday.
Trucker Cobb : You went to visit your brother a general?
Heinrich Dorfmann : Yes he's chief under the geophysicist for the Iraqi oil company. That pilot, I would have thought he was a little elderly to be flying without a copilot. Wouldn't you?
Trucker Cobb : That sand's a bastard you know that, a real bastard.
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Heinrich Dorfmann : A model plane has to fly itself. There's no pilot to correct the trim. Therefore if anything, a model plane has to be designed for greater stability that what you are pleased to call the real thing.