Sergeant-Major MacNutt Quotes in Carry On... Up the Khyber (1968)

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Sergeant-Major MacNutt Quotes:

  • Sergeant-Major MacNutt: [McNutt and Widdle are staying behind at the pass to give the others time to retreat] We don't fire until we see the whites of their eyes

    Private Jimmy Widdle: I can see that that one has red eyes

    Sergeant-Major MacNutt: That'll do...

  • Captain Keene: We need that rope of yours to get over the wall.

    The Fakir: I'm sorry, it won't work. Not without the magic words.

    Sergeant-Major MacNutt: Come on, you'll be well paid.

    The Fakir: Those are the magic words! Help me of this thing!

    [Keene and McNutt lift the Fakir of, to reveal empty space]

    Sergeant-Major MacNutt: What thing?

    The Fakir: Oh look - I've had a touch of the levitations!

  • [the British outpost at the Khyber Pass has been attacked]

    Lady Joan Ruff-Diamond: Oh! How awful! What can have happened ?

    Captain Keene: I don't like making guesses, but I wouldn't be surprised if there hadn't been a spot of foul play here.

    Missionary: Foul play? Look at them! Lying around like a lot of unwanted cocktail snacks!

    Private Jimmy Widdle: Ginger!

    Missionary: Who is?

    Private Jimmy Widdle: He is. Ginger, my mate.

    Sergeant-Major MacNutt: Private Hale ?

    Private Jimmy Widdle: Yes, Ginger Hale. Hello, Ginge. It's me, Jimmy. Your old mate, Jimmy Widdle.

    Private Ginger Hale: Jimmy? Is it you? My old mate?

    Private Jimmy Widdle: Ginge, mate! How do you feel?

    Private Ginger Hale: Oh, not so good. I think I've been wounded.

    Private Jimmy Widdle: Only here and there.

    Private Ginger Hale: Jimmy, I can trust you. Now, give it to me straight. Am I going to be all right?

    Private Jimmy Widdle: Of course not, Ginge mate.

    Private Ginger Hale: Eh?

    Private Jimmy Widdle: I said, "Of course not, Ginge mate."

    Private Ginger Hale: I'm not going to be all right?

    Private Jimmy Widdle: Well, how could you be, with half a dozen dirty great holes in you? You've had it.

    Private Ginger Hale: You're a bleeding fine mate, I must say.

    Private Jimmy Widdle: What do you mean? You asked me to give it to you straight.

    Private Ginger Hale: Yeah, but I didn't mean you to. You horrible little runt, you!

    Sergeant-Major MacNutt: That's enough! Widdle, you're a great little comfort to a dying man, aren't you? Now listen, Hale, it's Sergeant-Major MacNutt. What happened, lad?

    Private Ginger Hale: They attacked about a half-hour ago, Sir. Hundreds of them.

    [He belches]

    Private Ginger Hale: Burpas! They... they... oooh!

    [Hale faints. Sergeant-Major MacNutt shakes his head sadly]

    Private Jimmy Widdle: Oh, no! Ginge! Ginge, mate! I'm sorry, I... Poor old mate!

    [Widdle gently covers Hale's body with a greatcoat. Hale throws it off]

    Private Ginger Hale: That's right! Bleeding well suffocate me!

  • Sergeant-Major MacNutt: [on the subject of underwear] I am wearing them for sentimental reasons, sir. They were hand knitted by me mother.

    Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond: I don't care if they were hand-embroidered by your father!

    Sergeant-Major MacNutt: Well he did do the flowers.

    Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond: Flowers!

  • Sergeant-Major MacNutt: [Pointing to the red line Widdle is painting just inside the entrance] What is that supposed to be, Widdle?

    Private Jimmy Widdle: The thin red line - they'll never get past this!

    Sergeant-Major MacNutt: Widdle, if you don't get out of here, I'll paint a thin red line across your thick white backside!

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