The Cassandra Crossing (1976)

Burt Lancaster: Colonel Mackenzie

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• Col. Stephen Mackenzie : Good God woman! Do you think I would personally send a thousand people to their deaths?

  Dr. Elena Stradner : No. But I think you'd simply let them be killed. And that's almost worse.

• Col. Stephen Mackenzie : [On speaker phone]  I don't have to tell you what we're up against!

  Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain : What you're up against? I may be the only doctor for a thousand potential plague victims if I haven't caught it myself.

  Col. Stephen Mackenzie : That's exactly why it's important to contain the disease now and why you'll all be heading for an isolation facility in Poland, where you'll get the very best...

  Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain : In the meantime, what do you intend I fight it with? Aspirin?