Operation Mincemeat (2021)

Colin Firth: Ewen Montagu

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• Ewen Montagu : But the real tribute tonight goes to Iris, my brilliant wife, who in the morning sails to less troubled shores with our nestlings in tow. Iris is wiser than Solomon, stronger than Samson, and more patient than Job. But she has to be. She's married to me.

• [last lines] 

  Ewen Montagu : I need to go home and finish a letter to my wife. But first, I need a drink. Let me buy you a drink.

  Charles Cholmondeley : [looks at watch]  Eight in the morning.

  Ewen Montagu : Surely someone will take us in.

• Ewen Montagu : [after attempting to photograph the corpse, only for the photos to obviously be of one]  It doesn't matter what we do, Cholmondeley, he just looks deader and deader.

  Charles Cholmondeley : Well, might I suggest we use a live face?

  Ewen Montagu : What, that looks just like the dead face?

  Charles Cholmondeley : In a city of 9 million? There's bound to be someone who resembles our friend.

• Ewen Montagu : We're going to play a humiliating trick on Hitler.