Curd Jürgens credited as playing...
Major Brand
- Major Brand: War is not murder.
- Capt. Leith: [chuckling condescendingly] Brand, you're wonderful! You have the Christian decency that forbids killing a dying man but ignores the work of a sharpshooter.
- Major Brand: [defensively] Well, war is killing.
- Capt. Leith: [laughing] Better and better. So, the fine line between war and murder is distance... Anybody can kill at a distance with the same sort of courage that a man shoots rabbits, but when it cokes to the dirty work. you have to call on a civilian.
- Major Brand: What is it that you're trying to say?
- Capt. Leith: That I despise you for the professional coward that you are!
- Major Brand: What about the war?
- Capt. Leith: That's something you have to survive like... uh, like love.
- Major Brand: Are you trying to goad me into killing you?
- Capt. Leith: Perhaps...
- Major Brand: Why?
- Capt. Leith: Perhaps because... i haven't the courage to do it myself.
- Major Brand: [walking into a room where Leith is adjusting the fan] Hello, Leith.
- Capt. Leith: [contemptuously after adjusting the fans downward] I thought that fan should. uh, cool the colonel's head and not the flies on the ceiling.
