To Trap a Spy (1964)

Robert Vaughn: Napoleon Solo

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Quotes 

• Angela : Now what would you like me to change into?

  Napoleon Solo : Anything, but a boy.

• Mr. Allison : Two months ago Lancer secured a job as a handyman at the Global Chemical Corporation. Do you know the firm?

  Napoleon Solo : It's in Maryland. One of the largest in the country.

  Mr. Allison : Its also an Eastern seaboard cover of WASP.

• Margaret Oberon : [Solo picks up and looks at Margaret's bikini top she happens to have lying on the back of a chair in her U.N.C.L.E. office]  I was almost off for a weekend at Fire Island. Now, I'm assigned to you - on a 24-hour until mission complete basis.

  Napoleon Solo : Well, this label is too expensive for this to be a shrinkage disaster, so, it must be evolution. I look to the future with new hope.

  Margaret Oberon : They may keep the girl off the beach, but, she's going to get her suntan.

  Napoleon Solo : Well, this ain't going to slow down the population explosion, I'll tell you that.

• Margaret Oberon : Well, that's the lot. Plus, what you can dig out of that file.

  Napoleon Solo : Well, thank you my little agent provocateur.

• Napoleon Solo : [returns Margaret her bikini top]  Oh, turn over often. I like mine - medium rare, both sides.

• Napoleon Solo : This is a newspaper clipping, dated 1949, with a picture of a sorority picnic.

  Illya Kuryakin : Sorority?

  Napoleon Solo : Yes, it's a club for girls.

• Napoleon Solo : Vulcan has apparently wrapped himself in a protective cocoon. No friends. No women who seem to mean anything to him. Unapproachable. But, a dozen years ago, judging by that picture, he had a girl.

  [looking in a college yearbook] 

  Napoleon Solo : Oh, here she is again. Elaine May Bender.

• Napoleon Solo : There's a flight from Middleton to Washington, DC, leaving tonight at 11:15. I want you to take that flight - with me.

  Elaine May Bender Donaldson : Oh, I have to do my hair. My husband and I are going out this evening. Oh, this room is a mess! I - what the devil is doing a proposition as that?

  Napoleon Solo : Your maiden name was Bender. In 1949, you were a Freshman at Ruttenberg College and you were, I believe the expression is, going steady with a boy named Andrew Vulcan. Remember?

  Elaine May Bender Donaldson : Andy! Of course!

• Elaine May Bender Donaldson : Who's WASP?

  Napoleon Solo : We don't know. WASP might be a man or a woman or a committee that heads a secret international organization, a very powerful and a very wealthy. WASP has no allegiance to any country, nor to any ideal. It will embark upon any undertaking it may decide is in it's own interests. And where WASP succeeds, many, many people pay a terrible price.

  Elaine May Bender Donaldson : And you? What do you do?

  Napoleon Solo : I'm an agent for an organization designated as the U-N-C-L-E.

• Elaine May Bender Donaldson : Your group wants to stop this - this WASP.

  Napoleon Solo : Along with others. Let's say that U.N.C.L.E. is set up for the protection of many people all over world.

  Elaine May Bender Donaldson : Oh. Well, what's all that got to do with me? I mean, I'm just a housewife with two children - and a husband, don't forget him.

• Napoleon Solo : Now, whatever happened to red lipsticks? You know, this is a fraud against men.

  Gracie Ladovan : Why? Under the new lipsticks are the same old lips.

  Napoleon Solo : Well, that's a comfort.

• Napoleon Solo : As of now, you are Elaine VanEvery of Northridge, Oklahoma.

  Elaine May Bender Donaldson : Well, what's wrong with being just me?

  Napoleon Solo : Well, because it would help if you're a little more important - than you.

• Elaine May Bender Donaldson : I forgot!

  Napoleon Solo : Well, you mustn't forget. I've told you about the organization we're dealing with. They kill people the way people kill flies. A careless flick of the wrist, a reflex action. Now, I'll protect in every way possible; but, in the end, your safety depends on you. So, don't forget who you are or what you are.

• Napoleon Solo : Tell me, are you having much success in attracting industry in your country?

  Sekue Ashumen : It's very difficult. Very difficult, in deed. Oh, everyone is sympathetic; but, reluctant to act. They want a lot of guarantees.

  Gen. Molte Nobuk : As we throw the colonizers *out* and then we come to them hat-in-hand *begging* them to come back.

  Jean Francis Soumarin : Don't over simplify, old boy. It's one thing to enter as masters and quite another to enter as investors.

• Napoleon Solo : No, no, no, no. You see, you're - you're pushing when you should be guiding. Excuse me. You see, it's just in your instinct - it's all in the right hand. Like it's flat. Palm spread, right beneath your partners right shoulder blade. Arm - rigid! And then when you turn, she follows. Thus.

• Napoleon Solo : [on spy phone]  Acknowledge reception, please - and turn off that sun lamp before you boil over.

  Margaret Oberon : [sitting in her U.N.C.L.E. office wearing a bikini]  Acknowledged. And don't worry, I'll keep cool till you get back.

• Napoleon Solo : [on spy phone]  Acknowledge, please.

  Margaret Oberon : [sitting in he U.N.C.L.E. office wearing a robe]  Acknowledged. Where are you now?

  Napoleon Solo : I'm driving along an open country road, enjoying a cool breeze. Don't you wish you were here?

  Margaret Oberon : Well, are you alone?

  Napoleon Solo : Drink your milk.

  Margaret Oberon : I will!

• Napoleon Solo : I hope you don't mind filters.

  Angela : [takes the offered cigarette]  How do you do?

  Napoleon Solo : How do you do?

  Angela : Light me, please.

• Angela : What are you smiling at?

  Napoleon Solo : Because a funny thing happened to me on the way to my hotel. You.

  Angela : Don't shoot me. It would take all the fun out of the evening.

• Angela : Well! Where would I be carrying a weapon?

  Napoleon Solo : It could be done.

  Angela : If you have any doubts, you better search me.

  [Solo frisks Angela with his gun] 

• Angela : Oh, you move beautifully. If this were a trap, you'd certainly be able to kill me before you went down.

  Napoleon Solo : No question about it.

• Angela : I don't invite gentlemen out here.

  Napoleon Solo : And here I am.

  Angela : This is special circumstances.

  Napoleon Solo : Oh, then I'm not to get any ideas about you bringing me here.

  Angela : I didn't say that.

• Angela : I think you misunderstood your grandmother's problem. Probably she was merely looking for someone to help her with a difficult zipper. Would you?

  Napoleon Solo : Well now, that's not a great problem. That opens very easily.

  Angela : You've been practicing.

• Napoleon Solo : [looking at photographs on Angela's wall]  Your's?

  Angela : I manage to make a living at it. Someday I will have to make a study of you. Nude.

• Napoleon Solo : I don't have many virtues. But, patience doesn't rank at all. I don't like to be kept waiting.

  Angela : You sound so cold now.

  Napoleon Solo : Well, as you said when I came in the house: I'm a - rude man.

  Angela : You weren't rude a few minutes ago. As a matter of fact, you were - beautiful.

  Napoleon Solo : And I enjoyed you in return. So, we're even. We don't owe each other - anything, do we?

  Angela : [walks away from Solo's embrace]  I agree.