"The Russians put our camera made by our German scientists and your film made by your German scientists into their satellite made by their German scientists."

"To Commander Ferraday: This is a nuclear submarine. None of us have been aboard any kind of sub before. Commander Ferraday: Rest easy! I have!"

"One of my men is dead! Three of them are badly hurt and my ship damn near wiped out. Now you take another look at those orders. I'm in command of this submarine and I am not sticking another torpedo up that spout or taking another chance making another damned move until I know exactly what we're doing and why!"

"We operate on a first name basis. My first name is Captain."

"[after reading the name of the person who authorized the mission] All right sir, I'm impressed. Not enlightened, but impressed."

"Lloyd Haynes - Webson"

"Jed Allan - Peter Costigan USN"

"Murray Rose - torpedo-man officer Lt George Mills, USN"

"Ron Masak - radioman Paul Zabrinczski, USN"

"Michael Mikler - Lt Courtney Cartwright, USN (navigator)"

"Ted Hartley - Lieutenant Jonathan Hansen, USN"

"Gerald S. O'Loughlin - Lieutenant Commander Bob Raeburn, USN"

"Alf Kjellin - Colonel Ostrovsky, the Soviet commander"

"Lloyd Nolan - Admiral Garvey, USN"

"Tony Bill - 1st Lieutenant Russell Walker, USMC"

"Jim Brown - Captain Leslie Anders, USMC"

"Patrick McGoohan - David Jones of MI6"

"Ernest Borgnine - Boris Vaslov"

"Bill Foxley as Squadron Leader Evans"

"Rolf Stiefel - Adolf Hitler"

"Wolf Harnisch - General Fink"

"Peter Hager - Albert Kesselring"

"Alf Jungermann - Brandt's navigator"

"Malte Petzel - Beppo Schmid"

"Dietrich Frauboes - Field Marshal Milch"

"Paul Neuhaus - Major Föehn"

"Alexander Allerson - Major Brandt"

"Helmut Kircher - Boehm"

"Karl-Otto Alberty - Gen. Jeschonnek"

"Wilfried von Aacken - Gen. Osterkamp"

"Manfred Reddemann - Major Falke,"

"Hein Riess - Hermann Göring"

"Curt Jürgens - Baron von Richter"

"Jean Wladon as Jean-Jacques"

"Harry Andrews - Churchill's Military Envoy"

"Michael Redgrave as Air Vice-Marshal Douglas Evill"

"Edward Fox - Pilot Officer Archie."

"Kenneth More - Barker"

"Ian McShane - Andy"

"Robert Shaw - Squadron Leader Skipper"

"Ralph Richardson - Sir David Kelly"

"Michael Caine - Squadron Leader Canfield"

"Susannah York - Maggie Harvey"

"Christopher Plummer - Canadian fighter pilot"

"Patrick Wymark - Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory,"

"Trevor Howard - Air Vice-Marshal Sir Keith Park"

"Laurence Olivier - Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding"

"[Narrating a letter he has written] To the permanent Secretary of State for Air... Sir, I have the honour to refer to the very serious calls which have recently been made upon Fighter Command in an attempt to stem the German invasion of the Continent. I hope and believe that our armies may yet be victorious in France and Belgium, but we have to face the possibility that they may be defeated. In this case, I presume that there is no one who would deny that England should fight on, even though the remainder of the continent of Europe is dominated by the Germans. I must therefore request that not one more fighter be sent across the Channel. If the home defence is drained away in desperate attempts to remedy the situation in France, defeat in France will involve the final, complete, and irremediable defeat of this country. I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, H.C.T. Dowding."

"[briefing RAF senior officers assigned to oversee ground control stations] Or, in other words, beware of the Hun in the sun- who, for reasons best known to himself, has confined his recent attacks to our Channel convoys. However, this won't last forever. But it has given us time to pull ourselves together and train people like you. Now, as fighter controllers, you'll be joining an organization which, thank the good Lord, was not rushed up hastily yesterday. It'll be a pain in the neck to the enemy when he comes. It's the joker up our sleeves. [points to chalkboard] Now, the RDF chain shows us where they are. The information is passed to Group. Group scrambles the necessary squadrons, and you, at Sector level, guide our chaps to the interception. It's been tried and tested. It works, so don't blame the system if you're no good. [details map] Now, clearly, 11 Group here will bear the brunt of the battle, as those of you who are posted there will find out, to your discomfort. Twelve Group is our second line of defense, and covers the industrial Midlands and the North. Thirteen Group, Scotland and the Northeast, and 10 Group, the west of England. More than half the Fighter Command squadrons are stationed here at 11 Group, near the coast, where we expect the invasion, and also able to protect London, which is as far as the bombers can get with fighter escort. But I think we can leave strategy to those with egg on their hats."