“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Orson Welles - Harry Lime
“- Mr. Ixnay: He makes love to beautiful women, drinks champagne, enjoys life and never works. He makes speeches to the people promising them plenty, gives them nothing and takes everything. That's a Dictator. - Curly Gallstone: A parasite. That's for me.”
Richard Fiske - Mr. Ixnay
Curly Howard - Curly Gallstone
“Gentlemen, you will never make peace with Napoleon! Napoleon cannot be master of the world until he has smashed us up, and believe me, gentlemen, he means to be master of the world! You cannot make peace with dictators. You have to destroy them, wipe them out!”
Laurence Olivier - Lord Horatio Nelson
“- Capt. Cassidy: There was a democratic movement in Japan after the last war. What happened? - Reserve Officer Raymond: The leaders were assassinated. - Andy: What about the people? - Capt. Cassidy: They have no voice now.”
Cary Grant - Capt. Cassidy
John Ridgely - Reserve Officer Raymond
Warner Anderson - Andy
“I rather spend my whole life living in this dirty hole than escape to fight again for things I do not believe against people I do not hate. As for your Hitler, it's because of a man like him that God - my God - created Hell!”
J. Carrol Naish - Giuseppe
