The Dam Busters (1955)

Patrick Barr: Captain Joseph (Mutt) Summers, C.B.E.

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Quotes 

• Capt. Joseph Summers, CBE : How'd you get on?

  Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S. : It's hopeless.

  Capt. Joseph Summers, CBE : What happened?

  Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S. : Nothing. I walked up and down Whitehall. In and out of offices. Up and down stairs. Sat outside rooms. I felt like a peddlar trying to sell clockwork toys.

  Capt. Joseph Summers, CBE : I wish there was something I could do.

  Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S. : There is, Mutt.

  Capt. Joseph Summers, CBE : What?

  Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S. : Let's take the whole thing straight to Bomber Command.

  Capt. Joseph Summers, CBE : Harris?

  Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S. : Yes! You're one of the few men that really know him. If he sees the films and gets interested... Well, it'll only need one word from him.

  [sees Mutt shaking his head] 

  Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S. : Why not?

  Capt. Joseph Summers, CBE : Well, there's a bit of a snag there. See, he gets so innundated with fantastic inventions...

  Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S. : Oh, that's ridiculous! Everything he's using had to have been invented. Look, if you tell him that it's worthwhile he'll listen to you, won't he?

  Capt. Joseph Summers, CBE : I'll do what I can... But don't blame me if he throws us both out of the window.