Inspector Trout Quotes in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Inspector Trout: But all this would just be myth of course, sir?

Rabbi: Oh, I think not.

Inspector Trout: No?

Rabbi: No. There is little doubt that the plagues did occur, though so distant now as to seem a myth.

Inspector Trout: One more question, if I might, sir? What did she look like?

Goldsmith: Well, she was a tall, attractive, young lady. She didn't speak much, as I remember, but she was, uh...

Inspector Trout: Smart, sir?

Goldsmith: Fashionable.

Goldsmith: Good day, Inspector Pike.

Inspector Trout: Trout, sir.

Goldsmith: Ah, yes, of course.

Inspector Trout: Uh, these ten curses, would they follow any particular order?

Rabbi: Hm. That is a point that Talmudic scholars have debated for generations, but there is no doubt that the classical tradition is: the curse of boils, bats, frogs, the curse of blood, the curse of rats, hail, of beasts, the locusts, of course, the death of the first-born, and then, finally, of darkness.

Inspector Trout: Darkness, Rabbi?

Rabbi: Yes. The final curse upon the land, to end forever the sleep of man.

Inspector Trout: Oh, don't take him out like that. At least cover his face... what's left of it.

Crow: Anyway, medical men die every day.

Inspector Trout: I'm aware of that sir.

Crow: Good. They're composed of the same flesh and blood as you and I.

Inspector Trout: I'm aware of that too sir. I happen to have seen rather a lot of their flesh and blood in the past few days.

Sgt. Schenley: Well I have discovered they all have one thing in common.

Inspector Trout: If you say they've all died mysteriously I'll bloody kill you!

Goldsmith: One of a set.

Inspector Trout: A set? You mean there's more than one of them?

Goldsmith: Of course there's more than one of them, that's why it's a set.

Inspector Trout: Somebody is using these ancient biblical curses to kill everyone associated with the Phibes' operation. But, I mean: the husband's dead, there's no children, it all happened ages ago - so who the hell are we looking for?

Dr. Vesalius: I'm going alone. Maybe he'll trade my life for my son's.

Inspector Trout: If you think you can reason with him, then you're as mad as he is!

Inspector Trout: Sorry for taking up your valuable time.

Goldsmith: Reasonably valuable I would like to think.

Inspector Trout: Well you should have driven faster.

Sgt. Schenley: Faster? I got there five minutes before the locals.

Inspector Trout: But two minutes after the plane had crashed!

Goldsmith: There was a lady.

Inspector Trout: Right, this woman...

Goldsmith: No, not a woman. A lady.

Rabbi: Part of the

Inspector Trout: The what, Sir?

Rabbi: The

Inspector Trout: What form would the curses take Sir?

Rabbi: There's the curse of boils, of bats...

Inspector Trout: Frogs?

Rabbi: Frogs, yes. And the curse of blood.

Inspector Trout: I see Sir, yes.

Inspector Trout: The curse of hail in the bloody middle of nowhere.

[last lines]

Dr. Vesalius: That still leaves the final curse.

Sgt. Schenley: Darkness.

Inspector Trout: Well he'll be working on it wherever he is.

Inspector Trout: We have got to find Phibes!

Inspector Trout: Bats appearing out of nowhere... I don't know, it - it just doesn't make sense.

Inspector Trout: When you've finished up there, I want you to question the butler again. There may be something he's over-looked.

Inspector Trout: We found a body.

Lombardo, Shipping Agent: Well, I didn't know you mislaid one. Whose?

Sir Wayne Waverley: Ambrose's.

Lombardo, Shipping Agent: Ah, him.

Inspector Trout: Did you know him, sir?

Lombardo, Shipping Agent: Not intimately. But he was always going on trips. He was an archeologist, digging around in the dirt, like you chaps.

Inspector Trout: We have reason to believe he was murdered.

Lombardo, Shipping Agent: Murdered?

Sir Wayne Waverley: Killed.

Lombardo, Shipping Agent: I understand what it means. But by who?