The Grand Illusion (1937)

Julien Carette: Cartier - l'acteur

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Quotes 

• Lieutenant Rosenthal : Gentlemen, dinner is served. What shall we begin with? Cold chicken, pâté de foie, mackerel in wine?

  Capt. de Boeldieu : Quite a menu!

  Lieutenant Maréchal : Don't they feed us?

  L'ingénieur : They do in theory. In fact it's uneatable. Fortunately there are our parcels, especially Rosenthal's.

  Lieutenant Rosenthal : Please. Drop of cognac as an aperitif?

  Capt. de Boeldieu : Why not?

  Cartier - l'acteur : I have never eaten so well in my life! Some fish?

  Lieutenant Maréchal : Yes, please.

  Cartier - l'acteur : I'm starting to take Rosenthal's kindness for granted. It shows man is a creature of habit.

  L'instituteur : No need to tell you he's a teacher. Teach, preach, screech, leech.

• Cartier - l'acteur : Now for my mole act! A mole in a hole!

• L'instituteur : [looking though a trunk of ladies clothes]  Looks like a child's dress.

  Lieutenant Maréchal : Women skirts are short now. Just below the knee.

  Cartier - l'acteur : So I heard, I wish I could see them!

  Lieutenant Maréchal : Put it on!

  Lieutenant Rosenthal : Not him, he's badly shaven. You, angel-face.

  Angel-face : If it amuses you.

• Cartier - l'acteur : He was born in Jerusalem!

  Lieutenant Rosenthal : Wrong, Vienna! My mother was Danish, my father Polish, naturalized French.

  Lieutenant Maréchal : Good old French aristocracy.

  Lieutenant Rosenthal : And yet for all your old French stock, not one of you owned an acre of France. In 35 years, the Rosenthal's have acquired three historic castles and all that goes with them: hunting, farmland and horses. And 3 galleries of genuine ancestors. Believe me, it's worth escaping to fight for that.

  Capt. de Boeldieu : I had never considered patriotism from that rather special point of view.

• Cartier - l'acteur : [singing]  Do you know Marguerite? She's not big and she's not small, With arousing eyes and a mouth like a child's, When I told this beauty that I loved her, She gave me flowers and called me joker...

• Lieutenant Maréchal : They wear their hair short too.

  L'instituteur : Short hair!

  Cartier - l'acteur : Must seem like sleeping with a boy!

  L'instituteur : When the cat's away the mice will play!

  French POW : I'm sure my wife hasn't cut her hair.