Sleuth (1972)

Michael Caine: Milo Tindle, Inspector Doppler

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Milo Tindle : Andrew... remember... be sure and tell them... it was only a bloody game.

• Andrew Wyke : For Christ sake Milo, they couldn't have made more noise on D-Day.

  Milo Tindle : The bloody glass came out, my bloody boot got stuck and I fell down the bloody ladder.

  Andrew Wyke : Well the bloody police must have heard it all the way to bloody Salisbury.

  Milo Tindle : I'm sorry.

• Milo Tindle : We are from different worlds, you and me, Andrew. In mine, there was no time for bright fancies and happy inventions, no stopping for tea. The only game we played was to survive, or go to the wall. If you didn't win, you just didn't finish. Loser, lose all. You probably don't understand that.

• Milo Tindle : Alright, I'll do it. Where do you want me to break in?

  Andrew Wyke : Not so fast. You've got to get disguised first.

  Milo Tindle : What for?

  Andrew Wyke : Suppose somebody saw you coming.

  Milo Tindle : Here? In the middle of nowhere? I could hardly find this place with a bloody map!

  Andrew Wyke : You never know. A dallying couple, a passing sheep-rapist.

• Andrew Wyke : [picking out a possible disguise for the phony robbery]  One black facemask, one black flat cap, a striped jersey and a bag marked "Swag".

  Milo Tindle : Why not a neon sign with "Burglar" on it?

• Andrew Wyke : You said everything was in plain view!

  Milo Tindle : Well aren't I the shifty old sly boots, then.

• Andrew Wyke : It's a good thing, I am pretty much of an Olympic sexual athlete.

  Milo Tindle : Yes, I suppose these days you are concentrating more on the sprints than on the long distance stuff.

  Andrew Wyke : Not so dear boy! I am in the peak of condition. I could copulate for England at any distance.

  Milo Tindle : Well, as they say in the Olympics, it's not the winning, it's the taking part that counts.

• Milo Tindle : Why don't you ask yourself how your man Merridick would go about the search?

  Andrew Wyke : Merridew! St. John Lord Merridew!

• Milo Tindle : It looks like you've had it. They're coming up the drive.

  Andrew Wyke : Keep them out!

  Milo Tindle : Keep the police out? It's just not done, old boy. But still, I'll try.

• Milo Tindle : You're mad! You're a bloody madman!

  Andrew Wyke : You are a young man dressed as a clown about to be murdered.

• Andrew Wyke : Finally, at your moment of dying, you are yourself - a sniveling, dago clown. Farewell, Punchinello!

  Milo Tindle : Please!

  Andrew Wyke : [fires the gun] 

• Andrew Wyke : You shit!

  Milo Tindle : Grazie mille.

  Andrew Wyke : You all-time, knockdown, champion BASTARD, Milo!

  Milo Tindle : You're too kind.

• Andrew Wyke : Whether I love her or not, I found her. I've kept her. She represents me. Once, she was in love with me.

  Milo Tindle : And now she's in love with me. And you can't forgive that.

• Andrew Wyke : You're not giving me any kind of a chance, you sadistic bloody Wop!

  Milo Tindle : I hope I didn't hear that correctly...

• Milo Tindle : A turnstile to the bedrooms?

  Andrew Wyke : One way or another, one always pays to get in.

• Milo Tindle : There it is! The original blunt instrument; the poker. Right!

  Andrew Wyke : Now steady...

  Milo Tindle : Where do you want it?

  Andrew Wyke : Don't get carried away. It's not a murder weapon you're talking about you know!

  Milo Tindle : No?

  Andrew Wyke : No. We're discussing an object from which I receive in the classic formula a glancing blow which will raise a lump without actually cracking the cranium.

  Milo Tindle : Why don't I just keep tapping you lightly on the head with the poker until a lump comes up?

• Andrew Wyke : The mistresses' bedroom. Or, would you know your way about?

  Milo Tindle : The mistress, or her bedroom?

• Milo Tindle : For any man with half an eye, what stands before him he may spy. But optics sharp it needs, and clean, to see what is not to be seen

• Andrew Wyke : [he has just started the game of pool and run the table]  Whatever are you doing with that cue in your hand?

  Milo Tindle : I was waiting for you to miss.

  Andrew Wyke : Heh-heh, foolish boy.