The Red Tent (1969)
Peter Finch: Umberto Nobile
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Quotes
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Gen. Umberto Nobile : What would you do?
Roald Amundsen : Forgive myself... and sleep. Sleep, my friend. That's the proper thing. And dream.
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Gen. Umberto Nobile : Biagi, you must try again and transmit.
Biagi : Can't do anything, General. Battery is dead... like us.
Gen. Umberto Nobile : [punches Biagi in the face, knocking the man backwards] Did you feel that, Sergeant Biagi?
Biagi : [stunned] Yes sir.
Gen. Umberto Nobile : Then you're not dead.
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Gen. Umberto Nobile : [aboard the Città di Milano] Captain, I want five land parties organized immediately. One can take the tractors, four with dogs. I also want to see your logbook.
Giuseppe Romagna Manoja : General! These are your orders.
Gen. Umberto Nobile : Orders? What orders?
Giuseppe Romagna Manoja : From Rome.
Gen. Umberto Nobile : [reading aloud] "In view of your extraordinary conduct... in abandoning the men in.."
Giuseppe Romagna Manoja : It would be best, for the time being, for me to continue in command.
Gen. Umberto Nobile : [appalled by his orders] What do they think that I've done?
Giuseppe Romagna Manoja : They think you have done... what you have done, I suppose.