The Secret Ways (1961)

Charles Regnier: The Count

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• Jancsi : That would be convenient wouldn't it? You've made arrangements, certain plans to deliver me from my enemies into the hands of Herr Scheffler. You overlooked one thing only - I don't choose to leave my country.

  Michael Reynolds : Sir, you don't have a choice, your time is up.

  Jancsi : If that is so, Mr Reynolds, I'll die here.

  Michael Reynolds : Why do you have to die? What for? I don't believe in it. Look, I came here to save your neck and I'm going to do it, even if you don't want it saved.

  Jancsi : Whatever I do with my life is my own business. No one else's.

  Michael Reynolds : Oh, you don't understand. In an few days you won't have a life.

  The Count : We know our position better than you do.

  Michael Reynolds : No, you don't! Scheffler is a pipeline. If he says I've got two days to get you out, you've got two days. Now, you can wait here like sitting ducks or you can do something. But there's a way out. If you're reasonable, you'll take it.

  Jancsi : There's no profit for you, don't bother about that.

  Michael Reynolds : Alright, I'm being paid. I know you'd like it better if I was some great humanitarian who believed in your cause. Well, I don't even know what your cause is.

  The Count : That shouldn't surprise us.

  Michael Reynolds : Well, who does outside this room? You could yell your heads off, nobody'd hear you. They aren't listening. They're all like me, I promise you; they couldn't care less. Causes are outmoded. Everybody's learned to live by compromise. Why can't you?

  Jancsi : There isn't any compromise. To compromise is to doubt your own convictions. If they're worth having, they're unshakeable.

  Michael Reynolds : Convictions are fine, if you live.

  Jancsi : Mr. Reynolds, if I can live one day to save one person, that's enough.

  Michael Reynolds : But you can do more than that on the outside. Unless you're determined to die a a martyr. And a crackpot!