To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Robert Stack: Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski

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• Joseph Tura : Wait a minute. I'll decide with whom my wife is going to have dinner and whom she's going to kill.

  Maria Tura : Don't you realize Poland's at stake?

  Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : Have you no patriotism?

  Joseph Tura : Now listen, you... first you walk out on my soliloquy and then you walk into my slippers. And now you question my patriotism. I'm a good Pole and I love my country and I love my slippers.

  Maria Tura : Well, I hope your country comes first.

  Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : So do I.

  Maria Tura : This is an emergency! War!

  Joseph Tura : Look, look, look, I don't know much about the whole thing... but is this Siletsky a real danger to Poland?

  Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : A catastrophe!

  Maria Tura : He must be taken care of!

  Joseph Tura : Then he will be taken care of.

  Maria Tura : Well, who's gonna do it?

  Joseph Tura : I'm gonna do it.

  Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : But how?

  Maria Tura : Where?

  Joseph Tura : I'm gonna meet Herr Siletsky at Gestapo headquarters. And after I've killed him I hope you'll be kind enough to tell me what it was all about!

• Maria Tura : No, no, no. I think we've talked much too much about me. Tell me about yourself.

  Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : Well, there isn't much to tell. I just fly a bomber.

  Maria Tura : Oh, how perfectly thrilling!

  Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : I don't know about it being thrilling. But it's quite a bomber. You might not believe it, but I can drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.

  Maria Tura : Really?

  Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : Does that interest you?

  Maria Tura : It certainly does.

• Joseph Tura : It's unbelievable! Unbelievable! I come home to find a man in the same boat with me and my wife says to me, "What does it matter?"

  Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : But, Mr. Tura, it's the 'zero hour'.

  Maria Tura : You certainly don't want me to waste a lot of time giving you a long explanation.

  Joseph Tura : No, but I think a husband is entitled to an inkling.

• Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : I hope you'll forgive me if I acted a little clumsy, but this is the first time I ever met an actress.

  Maria Tura : Lieutenant, this is the first time I've ever met a man who could drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.

• Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : I have so much to tell you. When we're in the plane we can't talk, when we're in the tea room can't do anything but talk.

  [reaches out for a hug] 

  Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : Maria...

  Maria Tura : [walks away]  And when we're in the dressing room we must be very careful of my make-up.

• Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : My people are fortunately out of Poland; but, well, there is someone in Warsaw...

  Professor Alexander Siletsky : Oh, a lady?

  Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : Yes. It's a very confidential matter. Professor, I'd appreciate it if you'd tell her - oh, but don't tell her husband.

  Professor Alexander Siletsky : Now I know exactly what to do.

  Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : Just say, "To be or not to be." She knows.

• Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : I've seen you in everything you've ever played. I'll never forget how I laughed when I saw you in "Kiki".

  Maria Tura : Yes, some people thought I was funny.

  Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : But, you certainly weren't funny when you played Lady MacBeth.

  Maria Tura : Thank you.

• Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : I don't want to over-step myself, but, I'll take a chance. Would you permit me to show my plane?

  Maria Tura : Maybe.

• Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : The other night Professor Siletsky was addressing us at the camp and I mentioned the name of Maria Tura. And he never heard of her!

  Gen. Armstrong : Neither have I.

  Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : He's supposed to be a Pole who lived in Warsaw and she's the most famous actress in Warsaw.

  Gen. Armstrong : Now, look here, young man, there's lots of people not interested in the theater. As a matter of fact, there's only one actress I ever heard of and I certainly hope I'll never hear from her again.

• Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski : Shhh! Not so loud. You might endanger all of us. After all, we're all in the same boat.

  Joseph Tura : Oh, the same boat, eh? Well, then, let me ask you something, as one sailor to another: what ill wind blew you into my slippers?