The Eiger Sanction (1975)

George Kennedy: Ben Bowman

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Quotes 

• Ben Bowman : Wanna Beer?

  Jonathan Hemlock : You gonna call room service?

  Ben Bowman : We got beer.

  Jonathan Hemlock : If you hauled beer up this rock you're insane!

  Ben Bowman : I may be insane, but I'm not stupid. I didn't carry it, you did! It's in your pack.

  Jonathan Hemlock : Christ, I ought'a throw you off this pillar! Besides, it's warm.

  Ben Bowman : Oh I'm sorry, I thought you'd draw the line on haulin' ice.

• Woman Journalist : Tell me, Mr. Bowman, in your opinion do these men climb to prove their manhood, or is it more a matter of compensating for inferiority feelings?

  Ben Bowman : Lady, why don't you go get yourself screwed. It would do you a lot of good.

• Ben Bowman : What got into Jean-Paul?

  Dr. Jonathan Hemlock : I don't know. A little jumpy, I guess.

  Ben Bowman : You been jumping his wife?

  Dr. Jonathan Hemlock : No, why?

  Ben Bowman : You sure?

  Dr. Jonathan Hemlock : Well, I think it's something I'd know.

• Ben Bowman : He looks like he could change a nine-dollar bill in threes.

• Jonathan Hemlock : Why did she do it?

  Ben Bowman : Oldest reason in the world.

  Jonathan Hemlock : Love?

  Ben Bowman : Money!

• [Bowman watches the climb through his telescope] 

  British Tourist : I say, old boy, are you using your scope? Do you mind if my wife has a peek.

  British Tourist's Wife : Darling, tell him we'll pay for it.

  British Tourist : We can pay for it, you know.

  Ben Bowman : Get out of here. Either of you friggin' vampires ever touch this telescope, you're gonna need surgery to get it out of your ass!

• Ben Bowman : john, do what I tell you. cut the rope above you!

• Ben Bowman : This is were I turn back.

  Jonathan Hemlock : Thank God.

  Ben Bowman : Not you, you need the work. George there will take you on up.

  Jonathan Hemlock : It's a girl.

  Ben Bowman : A lot of people notice that.

• Ben Bowman : You know what? Way down deep you've got the makings of a real bad ass. I don't know that I'd like to be alone on a desert island with you if there was a shortage of food.

  Jonathan Hemlock : No worry, you're a friend.

  Ben Bowman : You ever had any enemies?

  Jonathan Hemlock : A few.

  Ben Bowman : Any of them still around?

• Ben Bowman : A Foehn: warm air, then rain, then a freeze like all in a flash...... that entire mother of a rock is gonna be covered in ice but you can't walk on it, you can't see through it or find a crack in the rocks to drive your peton into because the snow is all glazed over, but you'll be able to drop through up to your neck at any time.