20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

William Hopper: Col. Robert Calder

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• [on the plan to capture the alien creature with a huge net] 

  Col. Robert Calder : Doc, this is like a parachute. It's got to work the first time!

• Maj. Gen. A.D. McIntosh : What I have to say you will find incredible- but true. Colonel Calder here has just returned from an expedition to Venus.

  Contino : To Venice?

  [Turning to Charra] 

  Contino : Perhaps you mean Venezia?

  Col. Robert Calder : [Impatiently]  To Venus! The planet Venus!

• Col. Robert Calder : Get that elephant out of there!

• Col. Robert Calder : [Seeing the Ymir for the first time]  Incredible! The creature has to be taken alive!

• Col. Robert Calder : [Speaking about the Ymir]  I guess I frightened it as much as it frightened me.

• Marisa Leonardo : Colonel?

  Col. Robert Calder : Yeah?

  Marisa Leonardo : I hate to intrude on your precious private thoughts but I'd like to change the bandage on your arm.

  Col. Robert Calder : Oh.

  Marisa Leonardo : You're worried about what happened today. About where the creature is tonight, aren't you?

  Col. Robert Calder : We'll find him. We've got to.

  Marisa Leonardo : Guess I've been pretty inconsiderate and self-centered. You've got a lot on your mind.

  Col. Robert Calder : If that's an apology I think it went in the wrong direction. All you've done is try to help. All I've done is snarl at you. I hope when this is all over, you'll let me try to make it up to you - over a table for two in a dark café.

  Marisa Leonardo : With a candle burning on the table?

  Col. Robert Calder : And a bottle of wine.