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The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) More at IMDbPro »

[first lines]
Sir Humphrey Harcourt: How do you fellows manage to look so comfortably, Vickers?
Maj. Geoffrey Vickers: We may look it Sir, but we're not. They say the first 40 years are about the hottest up here on the frontier, after that you get used to it.
Sir Humphrey Harcourt: Really?

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[last lines]
Sir Charles Macefield: [throws letter into the fire] For conspicuous gallantry.

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Sir Charles Macefield: Well, I'll finish my drink. I have a cowardly aversion to meeting reptiles socially 'til I've had at least one sherry and bitters.

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Lady Octavia Warrenton: Colonel Campbell has just been begging me to find him a wife. Now what particular quality do you most admire in a woman?
Col. Campbell: The quality of silence!
Lady Octavia Warrenton: Now, Colonel, you're flattering me just as dear Lord Melbourne did once when we sat next to each other at an intolerable meal call banquet. "Lady Warrenton," he said, "you have the power to drive men mad."
Col. Campbell: [Laconically] I can believe that!

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Surat Khan: Oh, so it was Captain Randall who so imprudently attempted to penetrate the line? Poor fellow! He paid the penalty for his foolishness!
Maj. Geoffrey Vickers: [Taken aback] He's... he's dead?
Surat Khan: Oh, my friend, life is sweet and dear when one cannot have it! That's why I sent for you.

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Maj. Geoffrey Vickers: [Addressing the Light Brigade prior to the attack] Surat Khan is on the field with the opposing Russian forces. The same Surat Khan who massacred the women and children of Chukoti. Our chance has come! Show no mercy! Let no power on Earth stop you! Prove to the world that no man could kill women and children and live to boast of it! Men of the Twenty-seventh. our objective is Surat Khan! Forward!

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