Silk Stockings (1957)

Peter Lorre: Brankov

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Quotes 

• Bibinski, Commisar : [reading a telegram]  Former commissar on extended leave of absence. Envoy extraordinary arrives Friday, seven o'clock, with full power. Your authority cancelled herewith. Markovitch.

  Ivanov : Extended leave of ab-abscene?

  Brankov, Commisar : That means he's dead.

• Brankov, Commisar : Be casual. Don't frighten him. Smile.

  Bibinski, Commisar : I haven't smiled in 30 years.

• Steve Canfield : How much taxes will Russia get on $50,000.

  Brankov, Commisar : $50,000.

• Brankov, Commisar : We've got to sacrifice our own feelings for the good of the party.

• Brankov, Commisar : [returning to their suite with lipstick on his cheek]  I just got your call. I was having a manicure.

  Bibinski, Commisar : At two o'clock in the morning?

  Brankov, Commisar : I cannot sleep with long fingernails.

• Bibinski, Commisar : Not that we're not working on our mission. I am still prevailing upon Canfield to show us the affidavit concerning Boroff's father.

  Brankov, Commisar : Bibi, don't prevail too much!

• Ninotchka Yoschenko : What do you want?

  Hotel Porter : May I have your bags, madame.

  Ninotchka Yoschenko : Why?

  Brankov, Commisar : He's a porter. He wants to carry them.

  Ninotchka Yoschenko : Why? Why should you carry other people's bags?

  Hotel Porter : Well, it's my business, madame.

  Ninotchka Yoschenko : That's no business. That's social injustice!

• Ivanov : But, how can she accuse us of something she knows nothing about?

  Bibinski, Commisar : Maybe, Canfield told her. Maybe, she is now just waiting to see if we tell her!

  Brankov, Commisar : Maybe! Maybe! Don't be so Russian!

• Ninotchka Yoschenko , Brankov, Commisar , Bibinski, Commisar , Ivanov , Blue Russians : [singing]  We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red, red, Red, that's what we said...

• Steve Canfield : Comrades, you're too intelligent not to see it! Now, here we have the leading Soviet composer, Boroff, lending his art to a Peggy Dayton picture, which will circle the globe! In Cinemascope! Just think, the Iron Curtain dissolved by music. Why, its absolutely sensational. What a gesture of good will on the part of the Russians. And - what propaganda!

  Bibinski, Commisar : Oh, propaganda.

  Brankov, Commisar : Propaganda!

  Ivanov : Da!

  Steve Canfield : Of course, you three will have to stay here and supervise and help. Why you'll become national heroes.

  Brankov, Commisar : Comrade Bibinski, he has a very strong point!

  Bibinski, Commisar : Propaganda!

  Ivanov : Da Da-da-da-da!

• Brankov, Commisar , Bibinski, Commisar , Ivanov : [singing]  Too bad! We can't go back to Moscow, No wonder we frown, Too bad we've got to consent, To stay in this decadent town...

• [after hearing the song made from Boroff's music] 

  Ninotchka Yoschenko : You were at fault, but so was I. It is now my responsibility.

  Bibinski, Commisar : No, I consider it my fault.

  Ivanov : Brankov and I feel the same way.

  Brankov, Commisar : [nodding and pointing at Bibinski]  Da, da, it's Bibinski's fault.