The Ipcress File (1965) Poster

Nigel Green: Major Dalby

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  • Palmer : The fellow whose job I'm taking, will he show me the ropes?

    Major Dalby : Maybe - if you're in touch with the spirit world.

    Palmer : I beg your pardon?

    Major Dalby : He was shot this morning.

  • Raid Inspector : It looks as if all this has been laid on for nothing. That's not good enough.

    Major Dalby : According to Central Clearing House, this operation was timed to start at 2.25. You started at 2.35. *That*'s not good enough!

  • Major Dalby : The next time you use CC1 authority, just you make sure you have it!

    Palmer : You know, it's funny... If Radcliffe had been here, I'd have been... a hero.

    Major Dalby : He wasn't. And you're not.

  • Major Dalby : The Americans have put a tail on Palmer.

    Colonel Ross : How very tiresome of them.

  • Major Dalby : [at the armorers]  Give him your gun. Issue him with a Colt .32.

    Murray : [hands Palmer a revolver]  Do you know how to use this?

    Palmer : Colt .32? Yes. I'd sooner have my automatic...

    Major Dalby : [sternly]  You'll use the Colt.

    Palmer : I'll use the Colt.

  • Major Dalby : [of Palmer's dossier]  It isn't usual to read a B107 to its subject, Palmer; but I'm gonna put you straight. "Insubordinate. Insolent. A trickster. Perhaps with criminal tendencies."

    Palmer : Yes, that's a pretty fair appraisal - sir.

    Major Dalby : Good. That last quality might be useful. But if I have any trouble with you, Palmer, I shall *bite* you, Palmer, and I shall bite you so hard you'll go right back to where Ross found you!

  • [Palmer and Dalby are attending a performance of a military band playing Mozart] 

    Palmer : Very neat. Must we sit through any more of this torture? I've got a lot of things to do.

    Major Dalby : I think they're playing very well.

    Palmer : Tell me who wins.

    [gets up and leaves] 

  • Major Dalby : Spare us the jokes, Palmer, I don't have Colonel Ross's sense of humour.

    Palmer : Yes, I will miss that, sir.

  • Major Dalby : And we still have to find Radcliffe, gentlemen. That means more legwork and fewer inspired hunches.

  • Major Dalby : Congratulations, Palmer. You've just killed an American agent.

  • Major Dalby : A word in your shell-like ear: If there's anything to be reported to Ross, *I* report it. Understand?

    Palmer : Yes, sir.

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