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"[graffiti] Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals."
"[Chatting up factory girl] Do you realize this Nigerian coffee is being packed straight back to Nigeria?"
"Try not to die like a dog."
"Beware of Mrs. Ball's treacle tart. There is many-a-fly that got stuck in that!"
"Professor Stewart was too far in advance of his time, but his name will live long. We will stand in silence, in grateful memory for fifteen seconds."
"The dividing line between the House of Lords and Pentonville Jail is very, very thin."
"[to secretary] Miss Hunter, two Valium and a barley wine for Professor Stewart."
"The future is in your hands, Mr. Travis. Take it... now!"
"Always remember gentlemen, that you are a failure in catering if you don't know what to do with your leftovers."
"Alan Price: [about game of chess] If you don't take that castle soon, the National Trust will!"
"Professor Millar: Michael, I don't know if anyone's ever told you this, but you happen to belong to a very rare group of encephaloids."
"Prison Governor: I've sensed the spark of idealism in you and I can move mountains, you know that, hmm. Oh, for a man like you, Travis. Michael, for a boy like you, you're still young! Everything is possible. The world is your oyster. I can see you stripped, building motorways. You have eyes like Steve McQueen. Did anyone ever tell you that?"
"Malcolm McDowell - Michael Arnold "Mick" Travis / Plantation thief"
"Ralph Richardson - Monty / Sir James Burgess"
"Rachel Roberts - Gloria Rowe / Madame Paillard / Mrs. Richards"
"Arthur Lowe - Mr. Duff / Charlie Johnson / Dr. Munda"
"Helen Mirren - Patricia / casting call receptionist"
"Graham Crowden - Dr. Millar / Professor Stewart / Meth drinker"
"Dandy Nichols - Tea lady in military installation"
"Peter Jeffrey - Factory chairman / Prison governor"
"Mona Washbourne - Neighbour / Usher / Sister Hallett"
"Philip Stone - Jenkins / Interrogator / Salvation Army major"
"Mary MacLeod - Mrs. Ball / Salvationist / Vicar's wife"
"Wallas Eaton - John Stone (Coffee Factory) / Col. Steiger / Prison warder / Meths drinker / Film executive"
"Warren Clarke - MC at Wakefield Club / Warner / Male nurse"
"Bill Owen - Superintendent Barlow / Inspector Carding"
"Michael Medwin - Army captain / Power station technician / Duke of Belminster"
"Vivian Pickles - Good lady"
"Geoffrey Palmer - Examination doctor / Basil Keyes"
"Christine Noonan - Imperial Coffee assembly line worker / Mavis at Wakefield Club"
"Geoffrey Chater - Bishop / Vicar"
"Anthony Nicholls - General / Judge"
"James Bolam - Attenborough / Examination Doctor"
"Brian Glover - Plantation foreman / Bassett (Power Station Guard)"
"Brian Pettifer - Biles"
"Edward Judd - Oswald"
"Alan Price - himself"
"Jeremy Bulloch - Crash victim / Experimental patient / Sign guy"
"Ben Aris - Mr. MacIntyre / Dr. Hyder / Flight Lt. Wallace"
"Margot Bennett - Coffee picker"
"Anna Dawson - Becky"
"Lindsay Anderson - Film director"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.