Cavalcade (1933)

Frank Lawton: Joe Marryot

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• Joe Marryot : If there is a war, how long do you think it'll last?

  Robert Marryot : Oh, three months at the outside.

  Joe Marryot : We shall win.

  Robert Marryot : We shall win.

  [Robert uncorks a bottle of wine] 

  Joe Marryot : [eagerly]  Perhaps it'll last six months.

  Robert Marryot : Economically impossible. Have you any idea what a war costs?

  Joe Marryot : Hell of a lot I suppose.

  Robert Marryot : A Hell of a lot. The Germans can afford it even less than we can. Then there's Russia...

  Joe Marryot : Good old Russia!

  Robert Marryot : ... France, Italy, and America...

  Joe Marryot : ... Japan, China, Nicaragua, Guatemala; huh, why, we got 'em licked before we start.

  Robert Marryot : Don't be silly Joey.

  Joe Marryot : [lightly laughs]  Sorry.

• Joe Marryot : Ah. Oh, it's a bit of luck the war coming when it did - I was properly fed up with Oxford.

  Soldier Friend of Joe : Oxford? I was just starting at an accountant's office.