Capt. Keith Mallory Quotes in The Guns of Navarone (1961)

[last lines]

Corporal Miller: To tell you the truth, I didn't think we could do it.

Capt. Keith Mallory: To tell you the truth, neither did I.

[apologizing for involving Mallory in the Navarone mission]

Major Franklin: No, I'm stupid sometimes. Even when I was a kid, I always took it for granted people wanted to play the games I like, and I'd be furious when they didn't.

Capt. Keith Mallory: Well, now they have to, so why worry?

Corporal Miller: Well, right now I say to hell with the job! I've been on a hundred jobs and not one of them's altered the course of the war! I don't care about the war anymore, I care about Roy!

Capt. Keith Mallory: And if Turkey comes into the war on the wrong side?

Corporal Miller: So what? Let the whole bloody world come in and blow itself to pieces, that's what it deserves!

Capt. Keith Mallory: I have no time for this!

Corporal Miller: Now just a minute! If we're going to get this job done she has got to be killed! And we all know how keen you are about getting the job done! Now I can't speak for the others but I've never killed a woman, traitor or not, and I'm finicky! So why don't you do it? Let us off for once! Go on, be a pal, be a father to your men! Climb down off that cross of yours, close your eyes, think of England, and pull the trigger! What do you say, Sir?

[what to do with Franklin after he broke his leg scaling the cliff; take him along, or leave him behind for the Germans]

Col. Andrea Stavros: There is of course a third choice. One bullet now. Better for him, better for us. You take that man along,you endanger us all.

Corporal Miller: Why don't we just drop him off the cliff and save a bullet?

Capt. Keith Mallory: And why don't you shut up? Yes, there's a third choice. We'll make it if necessary, when it's necessary, and not before.

Capt. Keith Mallory: And what about the two thousand men on Kheros?

Corporal Miller: I don't know the man on Kheros! But I do know the man on Navarone!

Col. Andrea Stavros: Mr. Miller, the man was finished when he fell.

Corporal Miller: [angry] That's easy for you to say, sitting there, drinking coffee.

Capt. Keith Mallory: You have any brothers or sisters?

Maria Pappadimos: I have a brother, Spiro, in America.

Capt. Keith Mallory: Oh, He's not that far away.

[Maria stops what she is doing and looks up with a stunned look on her face. Mallory points the but of his sub machine gun at Spiros]

Capt. Keith Mallory: He's that handsome devil right over there.

Maria Pappadimos: [She gets up and walks over to her brother. Her face has a look of wonder and love at seeing the brother she hasn't since he was a child] Spiros!

[Then her face turns hard and angry as she slaps him hard in the face]

Pvt. Spyros Pappadimos: [Smarting from the slap] What did you do that for?

Maria Pappadimos: To remind you to write letters occasionally.

Pvt. Spyros Pappadimos: There happens to be a war on.

Maria Pappadimos: I mean before the war! I promised myself I'd would do this the first time I ever saw you again.

[Her whole manner changes to contrite]

Maria Pappadimos: Well, I'm sorry, brother.

[Sprios just smiles, shakes his head, grabs her and gives her a great big bear hug]

Capt. Keith Mallory: They told us Pappadimos was a man

Maria Pappadimos: My father. He was taken two days ago.

Col. Andrea Stavros: He was taken?

Maria Pappadimos: He told them nothing. He will die first.