Night Train to Munich (1940)

Paul Henreid: Karl Marsen

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• Karl Marsen : We have nothing to fear. The nation is behind the fuhrer.

  Axel Bomasch : Yes, but how far behind the fuhrer ?

• Karl Marsen : In time you will see things the way I do. The way everyone in Germany does.

  Anna Bomasch : I'm not a German.

  Karl Marsen : Germany is as much your country as it is ours now. We don't hate the Czechs. We only wish to protect them.

  Anna Bomasch : As you're protecting the people of Poland ?

  Karl Marsen : You've been too long in Britain, listening to their smug hypocrisy !

  Anna Bomasch : If I listened to hypocrisy in Britain, it was not from the British.

• Controller : I thought it unwise to speak in front of Bomasch. So far we've made no impression on him.

  Gus Bennett : [who is pretending to be Major Herzoff]  I do not agree. He looks ten years older.

  Controller : My orders are to obtain quick results.

  Gus Bennett : At the Reich, we are rather inclined to believe that the knuckle-duster is the best diplomatic weapon.

  Controller : Do I understand that you question ?

  Gus Bennett : I question nothing. I am an army officer.

  Admiral Hassinger : Personally, I do not follow any of this at all.

  Gus Bennett : Bomasch is not the man to be bullied into cooperation, sir.

  Controller : Well, what do you suggest ?

  Gus Bennett : I knew Fraulein Bomasch in Prague.

  [Looks knowingly at Admiral Hassinger] 

  Gus Bennett : She has a great influence with her father and is the one person who can make him change his mind.

  Controller : Oh, Marsen here has tried that but she refused to listen. He is largely responsible for tracing Bomasch in England, completely outwitting the British military intelligence.

  Gus Bennett : [to Marsen]  So, may I express a soldier's admiration for one who can carry out his mission under the very eyes of the enemy secret service ?

  Karl Marsen : Thank you, sir.

  Gus Bennett : But, if I may say so, I hardly think the captain is a suitable person to influence the lady.

  Controller : And who do you think would be more suitable ?

  Gus Bennett : Why, uh, myself for instance.

  Controller : You ?

  Gus Bennett : Why not ?

  Admiral Hassinger : Herzoff was very friendly with her in Prague, you know.

  Gus Bennett : A little more than friendly. You saw the way she looked at me when I came in.

  Admiral Hassinger : Oh yes, of course. Seems to me that you are a bit of a dog, Herzoff.

  Gus Bennett : A technician, Admiral. One does not talk about these things.

• Admiral Hassinger : You really believe that you can influence a girl in a matter of hours ?

  Gus Bennett : Shall we say... overnight ?

  Admiral Hassinger : I see.

  Karl Marsen : Knowing Fraulein Bomasch, sir, I doubt whether even his qualities will make any impression on her.

  Gus Bennett : You aren't acquainted with my qualities.

• Karl Marsen : I'm afraid I must ask you to drop this little comedy. It's very entertaining but I have certain formalities to attend to.

  Anna Bomasch : Comedy ? What do you mean ?

  [hands tea to Bennett] 

  Gus Bennett : Oh, thank you.

  Karl Marsen : You're merely pretending to be infatuated with this man. There's no such person as Major Herzoff. He's a British agent trying to get you and your father out of Germany.

  Anna Bomasch : You must be crazy.

  [to Bennett] 

  Anna Bomasch : Ulrich !

  Gus Bennett : I don't propose to waste the time of the Gestapo denying it.

  Karl Marsen : Thank you.

  Axel Bomasch : You, you're going to give yourself up ?

  Gus Bennett : Well, they have lots of proof, Mr. Bomasch.

  Karl Marsen : An escort will be waiting at Munich to take you in charge.

  Anna Bomasch : You can't do this.

  Karl Marsen : He's an enemy agent.

  Anna Bomasch : Weren't you ? Didn't you do exactly the same as he's doing ?

  Karl Marsen : With a slight but important difference. _I_ wasn't caught.

  Anna Bomasch : [to Bennett]  Are you just going to sit there and do nothing ?

  Gus Bennett : Now, please don't make a scene.

  Anna Bomasch : Don't you realize what this means ?

  Gus Bennett : Yes, I do. But he has a gun and I haven't. And he's got a couple of reserves next door. Who do you take me for - Bulldog Drummond ?