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"John Moffatt - Chief Attendant"
"Sean Connery - Colonel Arbuthnott"
"John Gielgud - Edward Henry Beddoes (Masterman in the novel)"
"Wendy Hiller - Princess Dragomiroff"
"Anthony Perkins - Hector McQueen"
"Vanessa Redgrave - Mary Debenham"
"Rachel Roberts - Hildegarde Schmidt"
"Richard Widmark - Ratchett/Casetti"
"Michael York - Count Rudolf Andrenyi"
"Colin Blakely - Cyrus B. "Dick" Hardman"
"George Coulouris - Dr. Constantine"
"Denis Quilley - Antonio (Tony) Foscarelli"
"Vernon Dobtcheff - Concierge"
"Jeremy Lloyd - A.D.C."
"Mr. Ratchett, I have made enough money to satisfy both my needs and my caprices. I take only such cases now as interest me, and to be frank, my interest in your case is, uh... dwindling."
"[To Pierre and Beddoes, upon discovering Ratchett's body] Ah, touch nothing!"
"[After uncovering Ratchett's stab wounds, Bianchi starts to waver] Mon pauvre, if you must go woop-woop, please go woop-woop not to windward, but to leeward."
"Bianchi, Doctor, has it occurred to you that there are too many clu-ues in this room?"
"[To Bianchi and the doctor as he lights the slightly burned paper to see what was originally written] Observe, memorize! You're my only witnesses!"
"Forgive me, I'm only an ignorant Belgian!"
"Only by interrogating the other passengers could I hope to see the light, but when I began to question them, the light, as Macbeth would have said, thickened."
"Ladies and gentlemen, you are all aware that a repulsive murderer has himself been repulsively and, perhaps, deservedly murdered."
"Can you give me your solemn oath - as a foreigner?"
"Miss Debenham is not a woman! [long pause] She is a lady."
"Sorry if I hurt the lad. Provocation."
"The greatest cast of suspicious characters ever involved in murder."
"The Who's Who in the Whodunnit!"
"Albert Finney - Hercule Poirot"
"Lauren Bacall - Mrs. Harriet Belinda Hubbard"
"Martin Balsam - M. Bianchi (Bouc in the novel)"
"Ingrid Bergman - Greta Ohlsson"
"Jacqueline Bisset - Countess Helena Andrenyi"
"Jean-Pierre Cassel - Pierre Paul Michel"
": Now, when my duty has been carried out and justice, cleansed of filth, has prevailed, I'm making a step that only the greatest judge is capable of — for the true greatness of the judge lays in the ability to punish oneself."
"Vladimir Zeldin - Judge Lawrence Wargrave"
"Tatyana Drubich - Vera Claythorne"
"Alexander Kaidanovsky - Philip Lombard"
"Aleksei Zharkov - Detective William Blore"
"Anatoli Romashin - Doctor Armstrong"
"Lyudmila Maksakova - Emily Brent"
"Mikhail Gluzsky - General Macarthur"
"Aleksei Zolotnitsky - Mr. Rogers"
"Irina Tereshchenko - Mrs. Rogers"
"Aleksandr Abdulov - Anthony Marston"
"Igor Yasulovich - Accuser's voice on a phonograph record"
"Теперь, когда долг мой выполнен и правосудие, очищенное от скверны, торжествует, я сделаю шаг, совершить который под силу только величайшему судье, ибо истинное величие судьи — в способности покарать… себя!"
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.