The Pink Jungle (1968)

Fabrizio Mioni: Celaya

Quotes 

• Ben Morris : You're not holding us here because you still think I'm a CIA agent?

  Coronel Celaya : Ha-ha-ha! I'm sorry, no. That was an error in judgment. I'm afraid I must apologize.

  Ben Morris : Well, it's about time.

  Coronel Celaya : Ha! To the CIA. It is - it is gratifying to know that they are not yet scraping the bottom of the barrel. Ha-ha-ha! Ha!

  [Celaya leaves, then Morris strolls off alone, and produces a radio] 

  Ben Morris : This is Seven Dash Seven, reporting. Are you there, Clyde?

  Clyde : Roger.

  Ben Morris : Operation Pink Jungle is concluded. You can scratch Ortega. The revolution has been postponed. Oh, by the way, there's a - a nut named Ryderbeit flying out of here right now on a chopper. Let him go, will ya? I could've never pulled it off without him.

  Clyde : I'll send a plane.

  Ben Morris : Uh, no. No, don't send a plane. Uh, Colonel Celaya might get suspicious. I may want to use this same cover story another time.

• Ben Morris : I've been in some backward places in my life, but this one takes the prize.

  Customs Agent : Then why are you here?

  Ben Morris : Because they told me in New York this was the world's most primitive jungle.

  Coronel Celaya : Quite true.

• Ben Morris : Look, try to visualize it: the jungle, throbbing, mysterious, sultry, Alison Duguesne posed on a pile of leopard skins, in a blue peignoir, and - and standing behind her are two savages in breechcloths, holding poison spears.

  Coronel Celaya : But why didn't you do it in New York?

  Ben Morris : Use two phony savages? In a cosmetics ad?

  Coronel Celaya : And what is the purpose of this fantastic venture?

  Ben Morris : To sell lipstick!

  Coronel Celaya : You CIA people uh, amaze me.

  Ben Morris : CIA?

  Coronel Celaya : That's a cover story. This is a - an insult.

• Coronel Celaya : Not quite the bungler you try to appear. Ha-ha! Mr. Morris, I'm becoming rather fond of you.

  Ben Morris : Well, I'm glad. I think. Now do we get our lipsticks back?

  Coronel Celaya : You have my word, as one professional to another, that if at the end of the week I still haven't discovered the *real* purpose of that material, I shall not only give it back, but you may be present when I design my commission, huh?

• Coronel Celaya : Remarkable coincidence, wouldn't you say?

  Ben Morris : What?

  Coronel Celaya : The timing. There hasn't been an helicopter here in two months, and, and this one was unscheduled. But a man who strangely enough can fly a helicopter just happened to be right there in the jungle at that precise moment.

  Ben Morris : First I'm a CIA agent and now I'm a helicopter thief!