The V.I.P.s (1963)
Maggie Smith: Miss Mead
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Quotes
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Les Mangrum : Well, let's have another go at this.
[Grabs a bottle of champagne]
Miss Mead : Well, I'll be squiffy!
Les Mangrum : Marvelous! That, I should like to see, Miss Mead. Just once. What am I talking about, just once? If I don't see it tonight, I don't suppose I ever will.
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Les Mangrum : Oh well, ha-ha, here's to better days.
Miss Mead : Better days.
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Miss Mead : Mm, Mr. Andros?
Paul Andros : Hm?
Miss Mead : I don't suppose you've ever before been approached by a perfectly strange woman in a hotel lounge asking you for 153,750 pounds?
Paul Andros : No, I don't think I have.
Miss Mead : My name is Miss Mead. I'm the personal private secretary of Mr. Les Mangrum.
Paul Andros : Who's he?
Miss Mead : The President of Mangrum Tractors. You've heard of Mangrum Tractors?
Paul Andros : Yes, I have, I think. That's the firm that's been taken over by Amalgamated Motors.
Miss Mead : They haven't, not yet, they will tomorrow. Of course, it's not a very big firm, as far as your standards are concerned, but it's a wonderful firm, and it... makes wonderful tractors.
Paul Andros : I have no reason to doubt what you're telling me. If Mangrum Tractors wasn't a good firm, Amalgamated Motors would hardly have wanted to take it over.
Miss Mead : This is... this is the last balance sheet
[handing it to him]
Miss Mead : .
Paul Andros : [looking at it] Yes, very impressive. I can see well why Mr. Mangrum wishes to keep it as his own.
Miss Mead : And he should keep it as his own! He built it from nothing into this, and these big monopoly combines should be fought!
Paul Andros : Yes, I agree. They should be fought.
Miss Mead : If only you knew the fight he put up these last three months.
Paul Andros : I can well imagine. To fight Amalgamated Motors would be quite a battle, Miss Mead, even for me.
Miss Mead : And until today - well, a few hours ago even - he'd won it. And then someone let him down, and he had to write a check, and there's no money to cover it. And now this fog.
[getting her handkerchief]
Miss Mead : I feel so sorry for him, Mr. Andros, he's, he's such a wonderful man, and he's so young, and I'm sorry, you must think I'm mad, it's just that
[wiping her nose]
Miss Mead : we've been through so much, and tonight I had some champagne...
Paul Andros : Does he know how much you love him?
Miss Mead : [stunned] Who... who said I loved him? It's the company.
Paul Andros : Yes... they make wonderful tractors.
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Miss Mead : Mr, Mr, Andros? I-I don't suppose you've ever before been approached by a perfectly strange woman in a hotel lounge asking you for 153,750 pounds?
Paul Andros : No, I, don't think I have.