A Run for Your Money (1949)
Alec Guinness: Whimple
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Quotes
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Whimple : How much I prefer vegetables to human beings.
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Editor : Well, now, we must just establish your identity.
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Identity?
Editor : Oh, purely a formality, of course.
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : But I've never had to do that before. They all know me back home, see?
Whimple : But you must have an identity card, don't you?
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Well, it's behind the teapot at home, with my union card. Best place for them - I might lose them in London.
Editor : Ah. Heh.
[pause]
Editor : Edmund?
Whimple : May I suggest, uh...
[dialing gesture]
Editor : Ah, exactly. Ring up the manager of the colliery. No doubt he can help us.
Whimple : Excuse me, sir.
[takes phone and dials 0]
Whimple : Get, get me...
[pause as he reads the place name again]
Whimple : Heh heh, ummm, uh, H for hyacinth, A for azalea, F for fuschia...
Editor : [taking the phone impatiently] Hafoduwchbenceubwllymarchogcoch 1!
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Congratulations, sir!