Victory at Entebbe (1976 TV Movie)

Helen Hayes: Etta Grossman-Wise

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Quotes 

• Benjamin Wise : What are you reading?

  Etta Grossman-Wise : Agatha Christie.

  Benjamin Wise : You read that one in Tel Aviv!

  Etta Grossman-Wise : Um-hum, I know. But fortunately, I have just gotten older and absent-minded enough to have forgotten who the murderer is!

• [before the Israelis are separated from the other hostages] 

  Benjamin Wise : Mother, you have a British passport. You stay with the others!

  Etta Grossman-Wise : Don't be foolish. They have my Israeli identification card. Besides, it says: Etta Grossman-Wise. Even a German might suspect something.

• [Mrs. Wise is staring at one of the terrorists] 

  Benjamin Wise : Mother, you have to sit around for the take-off.

  Etta Grossman-Wise : He has a box.

  Benjamin Wise : Who has?

  Etta Grossman-Wise : It's tinned. It's between his feet. It says dates. Why would anyone travel with a box of dates? You could carry anything in that box: a gun, a bomb...

  Benjamin Wise : Mother!

  Etta Grossman-Wise : We should have travelled El Al.

  Benjamin Wise : They were all booked.

  Etta Grossman-Wise : I don't like Athens.

  Benjamin Wise : I know. Very bad security in Athens.

  Etta Grossman-Wise : You could come in to Athens from anywhere, and nobody will check between the transit lounge and another plane.

• [after hearing the female terrorist yelling orders in German] 

  Etta Grossman-Wise : The woman is a Nazi.

  Benjamin Wise : Mother, now don't get excited!

  Etta Grossman-Wise : I'm not excited. I took a Valium. The woman is still a Nazi.

• Etta Grossman-Wise : Where do you think, Mr. Olav? You've had an extensive military background. Where do you think we're going?

  Aaron Olav : What?

  Etta Grossman-Wise : My son says Khartoum. On the other hand, this gentleman...

  Nathan Haroun : Haroun.

  Etta Grossman-Wise : ...says Somalia. And as for me... I think India!

  Aaron Olav : India?

  Etta Grossman-Wise : Why not? I've never been to India! They have erotic temples there, I'm told. I've never seen an erotic temple.

  Aaron Olav : That's ridiculous! India? Who ever heard of being hijacked to India?

  Etta Grossman-Wise : Well, everybody has an opinion. Now, it's your turn.

  Aaron Olav : I don't know!

  Etta Grossman-Wise : Well, think it over. When you decide it, let us know, hum?

  Aaron Olav : India, hum? India... Humph! Pfah! India!

  [Olav and Haroun leave] 

  Benjamin Wise : Are you serious? India?

  Etta Grossman-Wise : Certainly!

  [pause] 

  Etta Grossman-Wise : Or China.