Shackleton (2002)

Nicholas Rowe: Thomas Orde-Lees

Quotes 

• [arriving at Grytviken, South Georgia] 

  Thomas Orde-Lees : It feels like a pirate kingdom.

  Sir Ernest Shackleton : They spend half their life on the ocean hunting the greatest creature on the planet, and the other half here, in this stench.

  Expedition Member : What an extraordinary way to live.

  Sir Ernest Shackleton : Not for these men. Madmen, criminals, outcasts of every kind the Calibans of the Pole. But they know the ice.

• [as they prepare to abandon the Endurance] 

  Thomas Orde-Lees : At least it'll make your book more exciting.

  Sir Ernest Shackleton : Do you think so?