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General Ed Fenech
- Lt. Archie Hicox: What should we drink to, sir?
- General Ed Fenech: Down with Hitler!
- Lt. Archie Hicox: All the way down, sir.
- Lt. Archie Hicox: Lieutenant Archie Hicox reporting, Sir!
- General Ed Fenech: General Ed Fenech. At ease, Hicox. Drink?
- Lt. Archie Hicox: If you offered me a Scotch and plain water, I could drink Scotch and plain water.
- General Ed Fenech: Attaboy, Lieutenant. Make it yourself like a good chap, will you? The bar's in the globe.
- Lt. Archie Hicox: Something for yourself, Sir?
- General Ed Fenech: Whiskey, straight. No junk in it.
- General Ed Fenech: [reading Lt. Hicox's personnel file] It says here you speak German fluently?
- Lt. Archie Hicox: Like a Katzenjammer Kid.
- General Ed Fenech: And your occupation before the war?
- Lt. Archie Hicox: I'm a film critic.
- General Ed Fenech: List your accomplishments?
- Lt. Archie Hicox: Well, sir, such as they are, I write reviews and articles for a publication called 'Films & Filmmakers.' As well as our sister publication.
- General Ed Fenech: What's that called?
- Lt. Archie Hicox: 'Flickers Bi-Monthly', and I've had two books published.
- General Ed Fenech: Impressive. Don't be modest, Lieutenant. What are their titles?
- Lt. Archie Hicox: The first book was called 'Art of the Eyes, the Heart, and the Mind: A Study of German Cinema in the Twenties.' And the second one was called 'Twenty-Four Frame Da Vinci.' It's a subtextual film criticism study of the work of German director G. W. Pabst.
- Lt. Archie Hicox: [he hands the General a whiskey] What should we drink to, sir?
- General Ed Fenech: Down with Hitler.
- Lt. Archie Hicox: All the way down, sir.
- General Ed Fenech: In attendance at this joyous Germatic occasion will be Goebbels, Göring, Bormann, and most of the German High Command including all high ranking officers of both the SS and the Gestapo, as well as luminaries of the Nazi propaganda film industry.
- Lt. Archie Hicox: The master race at play, eh?
- General Ed Fenech: We have all our rotten eggs in one basket. The objective of Operation Kino: blow up the basket.
- Lt. Archie Hicox: And like the snows of yesteryear, gone from this earth. Jolly good, sir.
- General Ed Fenech: An American Secret Service outfit that lives deep behind enemy lines will be your assist. The Germans call them the Basterds.
- Lt. Archie Hicox: The Basterds. Never heard of them.
- General Ed Fenech: Whole point of the Secret Service, old boy, you not hearing of them. But the Jerries have heard of them.