The 1986 film Haunted Honeymoon starring Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner and Dom DeLuise was just on cable. When Dom DeLuise makes his flamboyant--and in-drag--entrance, he quotes Old Lady Femm's "Laughter and Sin" monologue seemingly verbatim. If someone has a copy of both, confirm this for me. Thanks.
shareYep, I noticed that too. It's funny because I watched Haunted Honeymoon on Friday night and watched The Old Dark House for the first time Saturday. When that part came on I had to play it twice and got quite a chuckle. Seems like Wilder must have watched the Old Dark House before he wrote Haunted Honeymoon.
shareWoW! Someone else HAS noticed this I just put this following statemtn on the Haunted Honeymoon forum, see below. There are MANY similarites between teh two films:
Can't seem to find much written evidence to support this statement but if you go and watch 'The Old Dark House' with Boris Karlof and Charles Laughton you'll see that many, many things have been lifted out of that 1939 film and presented in Haunted Honeymoon, Dom De Louise's 'Brazzen ladies with painted faces' speach, the old gnarly lady, the grand hall, the curtains blowing in the wind, Gilda Radner's silk slip dress etc - I'm not complaining, jsut thought fans of this film might like to see where Wilder got his inspiration. It's GOT to be true.
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I haven't seen Haunted Honeymoon since I was a child, I'll need to keep my eye out for these similarities! WOW, I guess the writers were big fans of this film huh?
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Haunted Honeymoon also borrows the fact that the woman of the house has a disdain for electricity. Gene Wilder borrowed from a number of other films as well. ene Wilder's character is named Larry Abbot, very similar to Lon Chaney Jr.'s character Larry Talbot in The Wolf Man. He lifted one of the funniest scenes in movie history from the old Fred MacMurray film Murder He Says (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFcNDw0uH38). He also borrowed the human hands holding candelabras and other ideas from Jean Cocteau's version of Beauty & The Beast. He borrows some stuff from old Bob Hope comedies Cat & The Canary and Ghostbreakers which themselves are spoofs on the horror genre. He also took the name from a 1940 film. The reason why Haunted Honeymoon is one of my all-time favorite films is because it is such a wonderfully loving tribute to such classic and often times tragically underrated films. It's a shame that not more people appreciate Haunted Honeymoon for the brilliant comedy it is.
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