Daily Dialogue — April 5, 2015

“She’s having the birdie num nums.”

— The Party (1968), screenplay by Blake Edwards & Tom Waldman and Frank Waldman, story by Blake Edwards

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Foreigner.

Trivia: This film was improvised from a 56-page outline. Each scene was shot in sequence, and built upon the previous scene. To aid in this experiment, the film’s producers had a video-camera tube attached to the Panavision camera and connected to an Ampex studio videotape machine, allowing the actors and crew to review what they had just filmed.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Perhaps no actor could milk humor better from linguistic misunderstandings than Peter Sellers (see: Inspector Clouseau).