Dad's Army (TV Series)
The Deadly Attachment (1973)
John Le Mesurier: Sgt. Arthur Wilson
Quotes
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Mainwaring : I'm going to talk to them!
Sgt. Arthur Wilson : You can't speak German!
Mainwaring : They'll know from the natural authority in my voice that I'm in charge.
[pause]
Mainwaring : You'd better come with me.
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Mainwaring : [the platoon is holding a U-boat crew as prisoners. Pike is covering them from the top of a ladder, holding a tommy gun. Mainwaring addresses them] Now pay attention.
[the Germans snap smartly to attention]
Wilson : Oh I say, they're awfully well-disciplined, aren't they, sir?
Mainwaring : Nothing of the sort. It's slavish, blind obedience. Not like the cheerful discipline of our own jolly jack tars. I tell you Wilson, they're a nation of automatons, led a lunatic who looks like Charlie Chaplin.
U-Boat Captain : How dare you compare our glorious leader with that non-Aryan clown!
Mainwaring : Now look here...
U-Boat Captain : [Takes out pencil and notebook] I am making notes Captain. And your name... will go on the list. And when we win he war, you will be brought to account.
Mainwaring : Write what you like, you're not going to win this war.
U-Boat Captain : Oh, yes we are.
Mainwaring : Oh, no you're not!
U-Boat Captain : Oh, yes we are!
Pike : [singing and laughing] Whistle while you work, Hitler is a twerp, he's half-barmy, so's his army, whistle while you...
U-Boat Captain : [Points pencil at Pike. The words die on Pike's lips] Your name will also go on the list. What is it?
Mainwaring : Don't tell him, Pike!
U-Boat Captain : 'Pike', thank you.
[Writes Pike's name. Pike now looks distressed]