Ffolliott Quotes in Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Carol Fisher: This is Scott ffolliott, newspaperman same as you. Foreign correspondent. Mr. Haverstock, Mr. ffolliott.

Ffolliott: With a double 'F'.

John Jones: How do you do?

Ffolliott: How do you do?

John Jones: I don't get the double 'F'.

Ffolliott: They're at the beginning. Both small 'F's

John Jones: They can't be at the beginning.

Ffolliott: One of my ancestors was beheaded by Henry VIII. His wife dropped the capital letter to commemorate it. There it is.

John Jones: How do you say it, like a stutter?

Ffolliott: No, just a straight 'fuh'.

Ffolliott: Ring Mayfair 24574...

Stebbins: [gets out notebook] Let me write that...

Ffolliott: Mayfair 24574. That's my cousin. He's the director of the airline. Tell him we need two seats on tomorrow's clipper for America. Then go to Hilton Nursing Home and stick by Van Meer. Then phone Miss Edith Armbruster, Kensington 66255. Tell her I'm off to America. Will she dine with me next Monday instead of tomorrow?

Stebbins: Sure.

Ffolliott: Then call up Stevens at The Post, tell him I'm off to America.

John Jones: Cable New York, tell them I'm off to America!

Ffolliott: [as they run off] Ring up Crescent Dancing Academy and cancel my rhumba lesson!

Stebbins: [reads it back to himself] Two ham sandwiches on rye.

Ffolliott: [entering a room full of spies] Pardon me gentlemen, I represent the Jupiter Life Assurance, could I interest you in a small policy?

[a gun, and the woman holding it on him, follow]

Mr. Krug: [angrily] Why did you bring him up here?

[taking gun and giving it to another confederate to point at ffolliott]

Female conspirator: I didn't know what to do, he tried to pass by!

Ffolliott: I would gladly relieve the young lady of this embarrassment, but you know how women are with firearms, they have no sense of timing. Now look, I'll just sit here and you carry on with whatever you were doing. Don't mind me, I sometimes sit like this for hours.

Ffolliott: Who has he shot?

John Jones: Van Meer assassinated.

Ffolliott: Dead?

John Jones: Looked like it.

Ffolliott: Bad show.

John Jones: Couldn't be much worse from his point of view.