Topkapi (1964)
Peter Ustinov: Arthur Simon Simpson
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Quotes
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Maj. Ali Tufan : What made you suspect they are Russian spies?
Arthur Simon Simpson : I deduced it, sir.
Maj. Ali Tufan : From what?
Arthur Simon Simpson : From the cook, sir.
Maj. Ali Tufan : What did the cook say?
Arthur Simon Simpson : That they were Russian spies.
Maj. Ali Tufan : A clever deduction.
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Arthur Simon Simpson : It's not a question of losing my nerve; I never *had* nerve!
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Gerven the Cook : You foreign, eh?
Arthur Simon Simpson : No, I'm English.
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[Simpson is talking to the Turkish guards who have arrested him]
Arthur Simon Simpson : You frighten me, sir. But, after all, that's part of your job. But if my father could hear you now he'd laugh himself sick. He wasn't no colonel, sir. I just said that in order to make myself seem important. He was a sergeant - acting sergeant - acting unpaid sergeant. And d'you know what he used to say to me? He used to say, "Arthur"... he used to call me Arthur... "Arthur, you're a carbuncle on the behind of humanity." Carbuncle! I'm a nothing! I'm a nobody!
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Maj. Ali Tufan : What has Miss Lipp to say? Did you hear her talk to anyone?
Arthur Simon Simpson : Yes, I heard her speak to Mr. Harper.
Maj. Ali Tufan : What did she say?
Arthur Simon Simpson : Personal things, you know, I don't think they'd be of any interest to you.
Maj. Ali Tufan : *Everything* she says is of interest to me.
Arthur Simon Simpson : Well, she said I was attractive to her.
Maj. Ali Tufan : Fool! She knew you were listening!
Arthur Simon Simpson : That's impossible.
Maj. Ali Tufan : Then why would she say anything so stupid!
Arthur Simon Simpson : Well, she did! She even went further. She said I had beautiful eye lashes!
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Turkish Official : [advising Major Tufan of Simpson's criminal record] In 1958 he was deported from Britain for smuggling pornographic literature.
Arthur Simon Simpson : An art magazine, sir!
Turkish Official : Called...?
Arthur Simon Simpson : 'Stop Press Nudes'!
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Walter Harper : Giulio's on the sill now. I'll help you lower him down.
Arthur Simon Simpson : Can't he do anything by himself?