Underground (1941)

Jeffrey Lynn: Kurt Franken

Quotes 

• Kurt Franken : I'm not going to let you go on working with those traitors.

  Sylvia Helmuth : Take me back and I'll do anything you want me to do. You'll only take me back.

• Kurt Franken : [quoting]  What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just...

  Dr. Franken : [continuing the quote]  And he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. Never forget it.

  Kurt Franken : Don't worry - I won't. I always wanted to ask you who wrote it.

  Dr. Franken : Unfortunately, one of our enemies. An Englishman - Shakespeare.

• Kurt Franken : I tell you, it would've given you the thrill of your lives to see the way we rolled over them. Denmark, Norway, Belgium, France. One after the other - like a steam roller.

  Frau Franken : Save the coffee grounds, Ella.

  Kurt Franken : The Führer is right - we have the greatest military machine ever created.

  Dr. Franken : I remember another leader who said that once.

  Kurt Franken : Ach - sour grapes, father. You lost your war - we'll win ours.

  Ella : Then we'll get back our colonies and have good coffee again.

• Kurt Franken : [reading the official telegram]  'It is our duty to inform you that your son, Carl Müller, died on the battleship Bismarck, defending his fatherland. Heil Hitler'. Well, we are at war, Herr Müller.

  Herr Müller : Yes - we are at war. But can you tell me why?

  Kurt Franken : Of course. To restore Germany's place in the world. We were a weak and despised nation before. Now everyone respects us - they are afraid of us.

  Herr Müller : [ironically]  I must remember this - they are afraid of us. I'll tell my wife - it will comfort her so that she won't need any medicine to sleep. Yes - I'll put this sign over my son's grave - they are afraid of us. This will make him happy. This will take his place in all our hearts.

  Frau Franken : Herr Müller, please.

  Kurt Franken : I'm surprised at you, Herr Müller. Karl died for a great cause.

  Herr Müller : This is a great cause? I say it is a great lie!

  Kurt Franken : I won't listen to you Herr Müller. You are a traitor to your son and an enemy of the State.