Telephone Operator Quotes in 1941 (1979)
Telephone Operator Quotes:
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Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Identify yourself!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: Captain Wild Bill Kelso, United States Army Air Corps. Where the hell am I?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Barstow. Where are you coming from?
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: San Francisco. Been chasing a Jap squadron for a day and a half. I lost 'em somewhere over Fresno.
Telephone Operator: I'm from Moline, Illinois.
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: Tough shit.
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Telephone Operator: Due to the storm, all lines have been temporarily disconnected. Please try your call again later.
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Telephone Operator: Hello, Mrs. Joan Crawford, Mr. Durante. No answer.
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Telephone Operator: [on the telephone to Don in the lounge] Mr. Webber, please.
Don: [aside to George] Are you in?
George Webber: No, no.
Don: [on the phone to the operator] Listen, kid, until otherwise instructed, Mr. Webber will be incomunnicado.
Telephone Operator: Don, where is that?
Don: About twenty miles due east, make a left turn.
Telephone Operator: OK, thank you Don.
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Telephone Operator: You have a collect call from,'THIS IS YOUR DICK, I'M IN AN ALLEY DOWNTOWN!'
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Telephone operator: [Horatio picks up the phone receiver] Number please.
Horatio Prim: Spooks!
[runs over to Melody]
Horatio Prim: That thing just talked to me!
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Telephone Operator: Operator. May I help you?
Alex Forrest: Operator, I've been trying to get 555-8129. 212? The recording says its been disconnected.
Telephone Operator: Just a moment please.
[pause]
Telephone Operator: I'm sorry, the number's been changed to an unlisted number.
Alex Forrest: Operator, this is a real emergency please. You need to give me that number.
Telephone Operator: I'm sorry. We're not allowed to give out that information.
Alex Forrest: Well *fuck you*!
Telephone Operator: My place or yours?
[Alex slams phone]
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Matthew Bennell: [dials his phone] I'll get the police.
Telephone Operator: [voice] Police.
Matthew Bennell: Officer, I'd like to report four bodies in my backyard.
Telephone Operator: Wait right there Mr. Bennell.
Matthew Bennell: How do you know my name?
Jack Bellicec: [Jack's eyes widen with fear] Hang up, Matthew.
Matthew Bennell: [into the phone] I didn't tell you my name.
Jack Bellicec: Hang up!
Matthew Bennell: [hangs up the phone] I didn't tell them my name!
Nancy Bellicec: That's because they're all part of it. They're all pods, all of them!
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Telephone Operator: There is no 311 area code.
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Mervin Q. Milgrim: Operator! Give me Alexander two two, two two!
Telephone operator: The line is busy!
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Mervin Q. Milgrim: [repeat several times] Get me Alexander 2222.
Telephone operator: The line is busy.
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Mervin Q. Milgrim: Hello! Give me Alexander 2222, please. Please give it to me. It's only over here on the other side of the street.
Telephone operator: The line is busy. Number, please.
Mervin Q. Milgrim: Alexander 2222!
Telephone operator: I can't hear you.
Mervin Q. Milgrim: Alexander 2222!
Telephone operator: Louder, please.
Mervin Q. Milgrim: If I talk any louder, I won't have to call them! They'll hear me!
Telephone operator: I'm sorry, sir, but you are all wet.
Mervin Q. Milgrim: Who's all wet? I'm all wet? Hold the line! Hold the line!
[He picks up spritzer bottle and sprays it into the phone. The spritzer comes out on the other end of the phone line, all over the operator]
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Telephone Operator: What are you trying to do, put the B on me?
Hildegard Withers: I'm trying to put nothing on you. You have enough on already. Now, if you answer my questions, you can go right back to your artwork!
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Hildegard Withers: Are you sure it was a man's voice?
Telephone Operator: Well it ain't likely a woman'd be calling me baby, is it?
Hildegard Withers: No, not so far downtown as this. Now, baby, I mean, eh, get the Chief Operator to trace that call. Tell her to report to Inspector Piper at Police Headquarters.
[Pointing to the Telephone Operator's lipstick]
Hildegard Withers: Oh, next time use a lighter shade. That's a little vulgar. Au revoir.
Telephone Operator: Okay, Lydia Pinkham.
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Telephone Operator: Say, what are you? A policewoman?
Hildegard Withers: As far as it concerns you, I'm connected to the detective bureau... not very pleasantly... but connected still.
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Telephone Operator: Mr. Alec Walker, calling Mrs. Alec Walker, Ritz Hotel, Paris. Mr. Walker's ready. Go ahead, please.
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Characters on 1941 (1979)
- Japanese soldier
- Raoul Lipschitz
- Sergeant Frank Tree
- Major General Joseph W. Stillwell
- Hollis P. Wood
- General Joseph W. Stilwell
- Colonel "Madman" Maddox
- Wally Stephens
- Captain Wild Bill Kelso
- The Patron
- Colonel Akiro Mitamura
- Claude Crumn
- Donna Stratton
- Captain Loomis Birkhead
- Pvt. Ogden Johnson Jones
- Gas Mama
- Ward Douglas
- Angelo Scioli
- Private Foley
- Captain Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
- Cpl. Mizerany
- Betty Douglas
- Pvt. DuBois
- Officer Miller
- Lydia Hedberg
- Dennis DeSoto