Tobruk (1967)

Nigel Green: Col. Harker

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Quotes 

• Colonel Harker : Its out of the question.

  Major Craig : Colonel Harker, you went to an awful lot of trouble to Shanghai me in on this mission. If you're not going to follow my advice what the hell am I doing here?

  Colonel Harker : You can't take heavy transport through that without mine detectors.

  Major Craig : Why are you telling me? You brought me along to tell you.

  Colonel Harker : Alright Major, tell me.

• German Colonel : [salutes Colonel Harker]  My compliments Colonel

  Colonel Harker : I have your assurance that our wounded will receive prompt medical care

  German Colonel : The best we can provide

  Lt. Max Mohnfeld : As soon as you hand over the Kesserling document Colonel Harker

  Colonel Harker : Mohnfeld... ..

  Lt. Max Mohnfeld : The name is Von Kruger

  German Colonel : Von Kruger, need I remind you of protocol?

  Lt. Max Mohnfeld : This is an intelligence matter

  Colonel Harker : Then it wasn't Bruckner

  Lt. Max Mohnfeld : What I told you was the truth, with one slight alteration. The Jew found me in the tunnel. The paper please.

• Major Craig : It's suicide.

  Colonel Harker : It's orders.

• Captain Berghman : If those tanks reach El Alamein, the Germans have Egypt.

  Colonel Harker : They may have the lock, but we have the key. Without fuel, Jerry goes *nowhere*!

• Colonel Harker : No flanking scouts. If we were an attack force, they'd have little chance.

• Major Craig : Tuareg! Hold your fire. If there's one there's more.

  Colonel Harker : Wouldn't be the first time they've attacked a column.

  Captain Berghman : English column's Colonel. This is German.

• Colonel Harker : What is it Sergeant Major?

  Sergeant Major Tyne : More coming Sir, over there on the other side.

  Colonel Harker : [turns around]  They must be German. The Italian's are too fond of comfort to travel this late.

  [turns back to the Italian's] 

  Colonel Harker : Their sentries haven't seen them yet. Take what men you need Berghman and make sure they don't.

  Captain Berghman : [in German]  Bruckner, comenzi

  Colonel Harker : What do you estimate the range

  [of the approaching Germans] 

  Colonel Harker : ?

  Major Craig : Two thousand yards, maybe a bit less.

  Colonel Harker : Twice the effective range of our mortars.

  Major Craig : I'll get the range finder. And prepare mortars.

• Lt. Boyden : Colonel Harker, Sir. Major Craig and Captain Bergman reporting.

  Colonel Harker : Oh thank you Boyden. Bergman. Hello Craig, good of you to come. I'll get right to it. Sometime ago you submitted a plan to Staff outlining a proposed raid on the German fuel bunkers at Tobruk.

  Major Craig : In its infinite wisdom, Staff turned my plan down.

  Colonel Harker : Things do have a way of changing though don't they Major. Rommel is 90 miles from Suez. Every shell, every gallon of petrol he gets has to come 300 miles from Tobruk. The RAF is doing its best, but still too much is getting through. So we're going to have a go at Rommel's source of supply.

  Major Craig : laughing

  Colonel Harker : Did I say something to uh, provoke humor?

  Major Craig : Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight.

  Colonel Harker : Would you care to expand on that?

  Major Craig : When I submitted the plan we could have blown up their fuel bunkers with a handful of men. How in hell are we supposed to get through their defenses now?

  Colonel Harker : Drive through Major. Disguised as prisoners of war, guarded by Captain Bergman's personal Afrika Korps. The plan will still basically be yours, except now it will be maximum effort land, sea and air.

  Major Craig : Colonel, can you direct me to the nearest bus stop?

• Colonel Harker : We've been aware of an anti-royalist faction in the Egyptian military. But this?

  Captain Berghman : [pulls out his sidearm]  I will do the honors Colonel

  Colonel Harker : That uniform's a disguise Bergman. Don't carry it too far.

  Captain Berghman : Shooting the girl, wouldn't trouble the Nazi's, if that is what's bothering you Herr Colonel

  Colonel Harker : What bothers me is going into action with officers who make rash and thoughtless moves. The Portman's think this is a German column transporting British prisoners. I want them to continue in that belief.