Sol Madrid (1968)

Telly Savalas: Emil Dietrich

Quotes 

• Emil Dietrich : Who was it who said, "Once you break bread with a man, you can never break your word."?

  Sol Madrid : Well, I don't know who it was, but I'd like to have had lunch with him.

• Sol Madrid : I know that for the past six months you haven't moved a quarter's worth of goods north...

  Emil Dietrich : But I manage to maintain myself comfortably, wouldn't you say?

  Sol Madrid : Well, maintenance isn't growth.

• Emil Dietrich : A half million in heroin... 28 kilos. How would you manage to get it across the border?

  Sol Madrid : That's my problem. You're perfectly welcome to come along and watch me do it, if you're willing to risk 20 years in an American or a Mexican prison.

  Emil Dietrich : No one is *that* curious. But I am interested: how would you manage it?

  Sol Madrid : I'm sorry: my method, my neck, my money.

  Emil Dietrich : And my heroin.

  Sol Madrid : And *your* profit.

• Emil Dietrich : I don't like to humiliate one man in front of another, Mr. Mitchell. I think it shows a lack of good taste. In my household, Mr. Mitchell, unimportant people like Luis and Rafael, they don't make mistakes. More important people like yourself, well, they're allowed one mistake... and tonight you exhausted that allotment.

• Emil Dietrich : And yet, I have the feeling that no matter what we got to know about you, it would not allay this sense of uneasiness I have. You're one of those men who seem to have been born without a father or mother or brothers or sisters or aunts or friends or wives, a kind of a... a "biological sport," if you will. Such men are hard to pin down, harder to find... and even harder to kill if they should need killing.

  Sol Madrid : You think I'll need it?

  Emil Dietrich : Oh well, if you should, you can absolutely rely on me to have it done!

  Sol Madrid : [Both laugh]  That's very comforting.

• Harry Mitchell : Emil, you're a civilized man. You can't throw me out. You can't let them get to me. Please, please, please... I beg of you!

  Emil Dietrich : Stop it! Stop it! A man with your intelligence - he should not be reduced to blubbering like a child. You'll be given a gun, you have a passport, you have your wits... with no more than that men with less intelligence than yourself have not only survived, Mitchell, they've conquered! Now, things aren't as black as you've imagined. You have a brain - use it! You'll be all right, Mitchell. You'll survive. I'm sure of it.

• Emil Dietrich : I know who you are. You and your wife arrived in Acapulco an hour ago. Correct?

  Sol Madrid : Correct. Except, the young lady isn't my wife.

  Emil Dietrich : Oh? Well, my congratulations - and apologies.

• Emil Dietrich : You imply that what he is about - is a fact. Well, facts, Mr. Madrid, are one thing and conjectures are quite another. Don't you agree?

  Sol Madrid : Would you like some facts?

  Emil Dietrich : Do you have any?

• Emil Dietrich : I seem to be in the company of very generous people. Mr. Mitchell takes the money from Villanova, gives half of it to Miss Woodward, who, in turn, gives it all to you, Mr. Madrid. Very generous people, in deed. And I suppose that you now take this smallish nest egg in order to begin a life where Dano Villanova can't find you. Isn't that so?

  Sol Madrid : As you say, it's a "smallish" nest egg. I would be happier staying on one and half million dollars.

  Emil Dietrich : Who wouldn't? Have you any ideas how to improve your investment?

  Sol Madrid : Heroin.

  Emil Dietrich : Ah, the stuff that dreams are made of.

  Sol Madrid : I don't shoot it, I buy it.

  Emil Dietrich : And I presume you know where to sell it.

• Harry Mitchell : I thought you trusted me.

  Emil Dietrich : Now, why should I trust you? You came to me with money you stole from another man who trusted you.

• Emil Dietrich : Now, before you say anything, I must caution you, my honor is at stake.

• Emil Dietrich : I was thinking that perhaps Miss Woodward would enjoy the hospitality of my home while you were gone.

  Sol Madrid : As a hostage?

  Emil Dietrich : No, no, no, no, no. As a guest, of course.

  Sol Madrid : Well, if that's a condition, the whole deal is off.

  Emil Dietrich : Well, I merely offered it as a suggestion.

  Sol Madrid : Well, let me offer you a suggestion: forget it.

• Emil Dietrich : What started out as a very unpleasant evening, has a very delightful and pleasant conclusion.

• Emil Dietrich : Three million dollars? That's a lot of money for us to risk.

  Sol Madrid : Us? But what are you risking? I'm the one that makes the delivery. But, then, I get the same 20 years if I get caught with an ounce or a ton, so, I go with a ton.

  Emil Dietrich : In another age, Mr. Madrid, such logic would have made you an Emperor. It's a shame that you live in modern times.

• Emil Dietrich : Three weeks? Tell me, why are you in such a hurry?

  Sol Madrid : I want to retire young.

• Sol Madrid : Where will you deliver?

  Emil Dietrich : Some place out of town.

  Sol Madrid : You mean the third banana tree from the left? Forget it.

  Emil Dietrich : Well, it was good enough before.

  Sol Madrid : Before we didn't have the Mafia around. All I had to worry about was the Mexican police and the United States Customs.

• Emil Dietrich : What the hell's coming off here? You cheap punk!

  Sol Madrid : Sit down.

  Emil Dietrich : You think you can come down here and put the finger on me?