Superintendent Quotes in Help! (1965)

Superintendent: Allow me. I'm a bit of a famous mimic in my own small way, you know James Cagney.

[imitating Ringo on the phone]

Superintendent: Hello, there, this is the famous Ringo here, gear fab. What is it that I can do for you, as it were, gear fab?

George: Not a bit like Cagney.

Superintendent: So this is the famous ring?

Ringo: I'm in fear of me life, you know!

Superintendent: And these are the famous Beatles?

John: So this is the famous Scotland Yard, eh?

Superintendent: And how long do you think you'll last?

John: Can't say fairer than that. The Great Train Robbery, eh? How's that going?

Superintendent: Oh come on now lads, don't be windy, where's that famous pluck?

John: I haven't got any, have you George?

George: Did have.

Paul: I have had.

Ringo: I will have! Lead on!

Superintendent: [cowering under his desk] There's a strong case for arming the police. We aren't all masochists, you know.

[Ringo is trapped in a cellar with a tiger]

Superintendent: Good lord, it's Rajah, the famous Bengal man-eater who escaped from London Zoo this morning.

John: Good Lord! So it famous is!

Superintendent: Oh, don't worry, he's absolutely harmless. All you have to do is sing Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from the famous Ninth Symphony in D minor.

John: Of course! Why didn't you think of that you twit!

Dog Owner: Well, where am I supposed to walk my dog?

Superintendent: You were presented with your own apartment - do your walking in there!

Semyon Gorbunkov: As they say in London, dog is man's best friend.

Superintendent: I don't know what they say in London - I haven't been there - but over here the house manager is man's best friend!

Superintendent: We'll send you a first guest, and among those guests will be a certain man - William H. Cassidy.

Ann Marsh: Who's Mr. Cassidy?

Superintendent: There's still men in this country, Mrs. Marsh, who'll gladly lay down their work, no matter what it might be, to fight in the cause of right without hope of reward. Such a one is the man I'm privileged to call my friend, - William H. Cassidy.

Superintendent: It's a simple matter of justice, Hoppy. These killers are ruthless. This last murder is the climax of many such cases that's happened on the Silver Trail.

Hopalong Cassidy: Yes, I know. Some day those little trails out there are gonna become big highways. If we all stick together, we can make them a lot safer.

Hopalong Cassidy: But, it's a funny thing. All big killers have ways of getting out of jail doors.

Superintendent: They don't have any luck getting out of the cemetary gate once they're planted.

Hopalong Cassidy: I guess that's the best place to put 'em.

Superintendent: I'll see to it you never work for another cab company in this town.

Joe Lourik, alias Joe Harris: Don't bother. I'll see to it.