The Mouse That Roared (1959)

Jean Seberg: Helen Kokintz

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Quotes 

• Air Raid Warden in Physics Lab : Why is it so different from an H-bomb?

  Professor Alfred Kokintz : H-bomb? This new bomb is based on quodium, which is 100 times more powerful than hydrogen.

  Helen Kokintz : My father uses an H-bomb just to trigger this one.

• Helen Kokintz : You can turn around right now and kiss me if you want to.

  Tulley Bascombe : Really?

  Helen Kokintz : Really.

• Helen Kokintz : He's power crazy. He knows whoever has the bomb, has the world by the tail.

• Tully Bascombe : Is everything alright?

  Helen Kokintz : Oh, wonderful. Couldn't be better. A two-by-four cabin on a rocky old boat with a deadly bomb ready to explode under the floor. What more could a girl ask?

• Helen Kokintz : Give it back. It's the honest thing to do. It's the wise thing to do. It's - it's the American thing to do!

  Tully Bascombe : There goes a red-blooded American girl.

• Prime Minister Count Rupert of Mountjoy : We shall return for you within the hour. Be prepared to escape. Until then, dear lady, adieu. You American women are so charming. So very

  [kisses Helen's hand] 

  Prime Minister Count Rupert of Mountjoy : charming.

  [kisses Helen's wrist] 

  Helen Kokintz : Look, we've only got an hour.

  Prime Minister Count Rupert of Mountjoy : Pity.

• Tully Bascombe : It's captured booty!

  Helen Kokintz : It belongs to the United States.

  Tully Bascombe : And you belong to me. You're my prisoner.

  [kiss] 

  Helen Kokintz : Thief.

• General Snippet : Don't you think you ought to hold this for awhile? After all, it's your father's.

  [tries to give Helen the bomb] 

  Helen Kokintz : Oh, no. Not me. I'm only a girl.

• Air Raid Warden : Why aren't you two in the air raid shelter? What's the big idea?

  Helen Kokintz : What's the idea of coming into this lab without knocking?

  Air Raid Warden : Look sister, this is an alert so let's be alert! Come on. Out! Out! Out!

• Helen Kokintz : I think you're holding me.

  Tully Bascombe : I am?

  Helen Kokintz : Is this the way you treat all your prisoners of war?

• Helen Kokintz : What have you got in mind?

  Prime Minister Count Rupert of Mountjoy : Well, we suggest you take that naughty bomb away.

• Helen Kokintz : I knew you were a snake, you snake!