MovieChat Forums > Tales from the Crypt (1972) Discussion > Major Rodgers: 'Can't you see I'm having...

Major Rodgers: 'Can't you see I'm having my lunch?'

posted 16 years ago by bsfraser2003
4 replies | jump to latest

LOVE that line in the film, call it unintentional humour!?
As Patrick Magee enters 'Major's' office to see him with a full cooked roast lunch and a bottle of wine with coal fire blazing, while his charge freezes in a dismally bleak dormitory!
I'm sure this sort of scene would not be too far removed from the truth in those days..(it probably still does).

[–] Pearl_Jade 11 years ago

As Patrick Magee enters 'Major's' office to see him with a full cooked roast lunch and a bottle of wine with coal fire blazing...

Actually Patrick Magee couldn't see any of this. He was blind.

THAT makes the line doubly effective, as it underscores the Major's insensitivity.

[–] rayincumbria 9 years ago

I agree .. I thought it was deliberate to stress what a unsympathetic, insensative guy he was..

few visible scars

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7401) 4 years ago

As wrong as it might be, I liked the rich guy going to a deadly trap with his dog mauling him to death.

[–] Tabbycat (748) 7 months ago

We all did.