A Run for Your Money (1949)

Alec Guinness: Whimple

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Quotes 

• Whimple : How much I prefer vegetables to human beings.

• Stebbins : Don't you ever read the paper you work for?

  Whimple : Read the Weekly Echo? That rag?

• Editor : Well, now, we must just establish your identity.

  David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Identity?

  Editor : Oh, purely a formality, of course.

  David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : But I've never had to do that before. They all know me back home, see?

  Whimple : But you must have an identity card, don't you?

  David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Well, it's behind the teapot at home, with my union card. Best place for them - I might lose them in London.

  Editor : Ah. Heh.

  [pause] 

  Editor : Edmund?

  Whimple : May I suggest, uh...

  [dialing gesture] 

  Editor : Ah, exactly. Ring up the manager of the colliery. No doubt he can help us.

  Whimple : Excuse me, sir.

  [takes phone and dials 0] 

  Whimple : Get, get me...

  [pause as he reads the place name again] 

  Whimple : Heh heh, ummm, uh, H for hyacinth, A for azalea, F for fuschia...

  Editor : [taking the phone impatiently]  Hafoduwchbenceubwllymarchogcoch 1!

  David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Congratulations, sir!

• Jane : I've checked the photograph of that floozy. She's a pro all right - a con woman!

  Whimple : Pro and con?

  Jane : A professional confidence trickster. She specializes in provincials up for a spree.