Flight Lt. Ives.
The Great Escape (1963)
IVES
A screenplay character in The Great Escape (1963).
- lines
- 25
- words
- 207
- scenes
- 6
- dialogue
- 2.0%
- avg words / line
- 8
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 34
- pages
- pp.13–81
Sample dialogue
Look sir, I've been in the bag for three years now, sir, and I'm bloody close to being wire happy. It's a blitz-out for me or forget it. It'll work. I know it will.
scene 124, source scene 91 — SITTING ROOM - RAMSEYFlight Lt. Ives.
scene 54, source scene 44 — NEAR THE GATE - STRACHWITZJockey. Don't you have them in the States? Horse racing. Reason I was small enough to be a tail gunner.
scene 104, source scene 77 — IN HILTS' CELL - HILTSSure. I'd be the man up in front. Like the bit on an augur. Mate - I could really go through the dirt.
scene 104, source scene 77 — IN HILTS' CELL - HILTSOh, soft sandy dirt like here, maybe even twenty feet, But it's not the digging, mate, it's the shoring up and getting the dirt out. And most of all, hiding the dirt.
scene 104, source scene 77 — IN HILTS' CELL - HILTS
First and last lines
What?