Shadow on the Land (1968 TV Movie)

John Forsythe: Gen. Wendell Bruce

Quotes 

• Gen. Wendell Bruce : You insist? You insist? Are you trying to give me an order? Who the h__l do you think you're talking to? "You insist"!

  Gen. Hempstead : May I remind you, sir: Davis is an Army man. You've taken him into custody, arrested him for reasons unknown to us. I demand to know...

  Gen. Wendell Bruce : YOU DEMAND? Let me remind you, General: the Internal Security Forces SUPERSEDE the Army! AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT! I'll arrange your resignation so fast you won't know what hit you. "You demand".

  Gen. Hempstead : My apology for what might have been an unfortunate choice of phrase, sir.

  Gen. Wendell Bruce : That's better.

  Gen. Hempstead : Nevertheless I *request* some explanation!

• Gen. Wendell Bruce : How did it happen?

  Maj. Shepherd McCloud : They were waiting for us - The Society of Man.

  Gen. Wendell Bruce : I didn't ask who, I asked how. Who broke security? Who do suspect? Couldn't have been Clark or Franklin or Anderson - they never left the building. Was it Felding?

  Maj. Shepherd McCloud : He's dead.

  Gen. Wendell Bruce : Then he's the only one I can trust.

• Maj. Shepherd McCloud : Why couldn't you have given us and edge? Move the mission ahead four hours, four minutes - anything! Now how are you going to explain that?

  Gen. Wendell Bruce : You're bleeding on my desk.

• Gen. Wendell Bruce : [whispering]  Nobody... Nobody I can trust.

  Maj. Shepherd McCloud : Well, as you said, sir, in this business, that's an occupational hazard.