- [producing King's helmet]
- Plummer (John Hussey): We found this down there.
- Rod Slater: It's King's. It's gold, I hate the lousy stuff.
- Manfred Steyner: This is just terrible. Did he say anything to you, about how it happened?
- Rod Slater: He didn't have the breath.
- Stephen Marais: Do you know what caused it?
- Rod Slater: The same as always. Digging for gold.
- [having knocked Kowalski cold]
- Rod Slater: Kowalski! Kowalski!
- [slaps him]
- Rod Slater: KOWALSKI! The next time you touch a face darker than mine, you're out!
- Rod Slater: My God, you're beautiful.
- Terry Steyner (Sussanah York): Kiss me you fool.
- Farrel (John Gielgud): Rod Slater, Do you know what your getting yourself into?
- Rod Slater: No, No I dont.
- Rod Slater (Roger Moore): [referring to Steyner's geological report] And you really believe this is fool-proof?
- Manfred Steyner: It's the work of experts.
- Rod Slater (Roger Moore): That depends on what one thinks of experts, doesn't it?
- Manfred Steyner: And what do you think of experts, Mr. Slater?
- Rod Slater (Roger Moore): [angrily] Well, sometimes they're right and sometimes they're wrong, but they don't do the digging!
- Manfred Steyner: Dammit, Marais, you told me nothing could go wrong!
- Stephen Marais: Someone must have been careless!
- Manfred Steyner: And if I've lost my general manager?
- Farrel (John Gielgud): Let's understand one another. No one jumps the gun! No one.
- Hurry H. 'Pops' Hirschfeld: Your grandmother was always 24 minutes late. I'd arrive 23 minutes late and complain I'd been waiting all day.
- [last lines]
- [In the back of an ambulance, an injured Rod Slater can be seen with Terry Steyner]
- Rod Slater (Roger Moore): If I could get my arms out of these things, I'd squeeze the bloody life out of you.
- Terry Steyner (Sussanah York): [smiling] You still can't say it, can you? I'll say it for you.
- [Terry is silent for a few seconds]
- Terry Steyner (Sussanah York): I love you.
- [Slater manages a small smile as the ambulance continues on]