The Dam Busters1955

Bomber Harris:
[Wallis and Summers have come into his office] Hello, Mutt. Wallis.

Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.:
Good morning.

Bomber Harris:
What is it you want?

Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.:
I've got an idea for destroying the Ruhr Dams. The effects on Germany would be enormous.

Bomber Harris:
I know all that. I've read the report.

[thumps file folder on his desk]

Bomber Harris:
But, do you *really* think you can knock down a dam with *that* thing?

Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.:
Yes.

Bomber Harris:
Well, it looks clever enough on paper. But that goes for *all* of these wheezy ideas. When you try to make them work, they fall down *flat*.

Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.:
This one doesn't.

Bomber Harris:
How do you know?

Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.:
We've tested it and proved it. I've got some films here I'd like you to see.

Bomber Harris:
[mildly surprised] Why... If you've proved the thing, why hasn't it been taken up?

Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.:
I don't know. But the films only take five minutes to run. You could see them and judge for yourself.

Bomber Harris:
Well... All right.

[gets up from desk and heads toward projection room]

Bomber Harris:
Send the projectionist out of the room. If this thing's as good as you say, there's no point in letting everyone know.

[indicates his aide, Air Vice-Marshall Saundby]

Bomber Harris:
Saundby can run the film.