My favourite line


"why has the car stopped?"

(a raging thunderstorm crashes all around)

"it's frightened"

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Wadsworth: Your first husband also disappeared.
Mrs. White: But that was his job. He was an illusionist.
Wadsworth: But he never reappeared!
Mrs. White: He wasn't a very good illusionist.

& so many more

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Some of my favourites:

1.

"Mrs. White: I dont want a scandal, do I? We had had a very humiliating public confrontation. He was deranged. He was a lunatic! He didn't actually seem to like me very much; he had threatened to kill me in public.

Miss Scarlet: Why would he wanna kill you in public?

Wadsworth: I think she meant he threatened, in public, to kill her."

I just love the look on Wadsworth face as if he couldn't believe Scarlet would asking such a stupid question.

2.

Wadsworth: That's what we're trying to find out! We're trying to find out who killed him, and where, and with what!

Professor Plum: There's no need to shout!

Wadsworth: I'm not shouting! All right, I am! I'm shouting, I'm shouting, I'm shout...

This always reminds me of the scene from Life of Brian where John Cleese is jumping up and down trying to get people to stop throwing stones. It always makes me smile.

i remember that it hurt - stuck in love

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Cop: You're too late, I've seen it all.
Wadsworth: You have? I can explain everything!
Cop: You don't have to.
Wadsworth: I don't?
Cop: Don't worry! There's nothing illegal about any of this!
Wadsworth: Are you sure??
Cop: Of course! This is America!
Wadsworth: I see...
Cop: It's a free country! Don't you know that?
Wadsworth: I didn't know it was that free.

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Wadsworth: There's no body, that's what we mean. Mr. Body's body it's gone!
Mrs. White: Maybe he wasn't dead.
Professor Plum: He was!
Mrs. White: We should've made sure.
Mrs. Peacock: How? By cutting off his head I suppose.
Mrs. White: Well, that wasn't called for!

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Cop: You're too late, I've seen it all.
Wadsworth: You have? I can explain everything!
Cop: You don't have to.
Wadsworth: I don't?
Cop: Don't worry! There's nothing illegal about any of this!
Wadsworth: Are you sure??
Cop: Of course! This is America!
Wadsworth: I see...
Cop: It's a free country! Don't you know that?
Wadsworth: I didn't know it was that free.


My favorite too, plus whatever Miss Scarlet says to the cop about the first dead guy (being dead drunk).

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"We'll get him a car"
"A long black car..."
"A limousine!"

That whole exchange, along with just about every line in the movie, is pure genius.

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So many of the lines in the movie are improve.

If you get a chance to find the novelization anywhere fairly cheap, I recommend reading it.

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Wadsworth: Three murders.
Mr. Green: Six altogether.
Wadsworth: This is getting serious.



The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. Shaw.

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Not really the line itself but when Wadsworth yells "SIT!" and Green's reaction.

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"Alright chief, take 'em away. I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife!"


Stay tuned for the documentary: "From Wheaties to Fruit Loops...the Bruce Jenner story"

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That line is amazing. That's like golden era Simpsons comedy.

...my essential 50 http://www.imdb.com/list/ls056413299/

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Mrs. White: Maybe he wasn't dead.

Professor Plum: He was!

Mrs. White: We should've made sure.

Mrs. Peacock: How? [muttering] By cutting his head off, I suppose.

Mrs. White: That was uncalled for!

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"One plus two plus one plus one." Or was it "One plus two plus one plus one plus one"

Too funny... : )

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