Cloak and Dagger (1946)

Gary Cooper: Prof. Alvah Jesper

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Quotes 

• Prof. Alvah Jesper : I am scared stiff. For the first time thousands of our fine scientists are working together, and to make what?... A bomb! But who was willing to finance before the war, to wipe out tuberculosis. And when are we going to be given a billion dollars to wipe out cancer? I tell you we could do it in one year!

• Prof. Alvah Jesper : Society isn't ready for atomic energy. I'm scared stiff!

• Prof. Alvah Jesper : There was a time when I thought I wanted to be some kind of secret agent. I gave it up when I was eight.

• Prof. Alvah Jesper : Dr. Katerin Lodor, one of the great ones. Used to be my scientific pinup girl before Hungary sold out to the Nazis.

• Prof. Alvah Jesper : What's that?

  Gina : An American Cowboy song. Don't look so funny. One of your shot-down fliers from New Arizona taught it to me.

  Prof. Alvah Jesper : New Mexico.

  Gina : New Arizona.

  Prof. Alvah Jesper : Okay. New Arizona.

• Gina : Come back. Come back for me.

  Prof. Alvah Jesper : Good-bye, my darling. I'll be back.

• Col. Walsh : I'm in the OSS.

  Prof. Alvah Jesper : Never heard of it.

  Col. Walsh : Now that's fine. We're not supposed to get publicity. The Office of Strategic Services, around Washington we're known as the Cloak and Dagger boys.

• [last lines] 

  Prof. Alvah Jesper : I'll be back.