Daily Dialogue — August 24, 2012

[gets hit in the face with a pie]
Prince Hapnick: [tastes pie] umm… brandy! Throw more brandy, throw brandy! More brandy! Brandy!
[gets hit again with a pie]
Prince Hapnick: umm… rum! I never mix my pies!

— Prince Hapnick (Jack Lemmon), The Great Race (1965), screenplay by Arthur A. Ross, story by Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is comic set piece, suggested by Shaula Evans. Today’s suggestion by Bill Weinberger.

Trivia: Charlton Heston was originally offered the role of The Great Leslie. He considered it a “funny script” but had to turn the part down when the production schedule for The Agony and the Ecstasy was delayed. Tony Curtis then got the part.

Dialogue On Dialogue: These comments from Bill Weinberger: “You have to include the greatest comedy set piece of all time: the pie fight from The Great Race. It builds and builds and launches the film into the finale (and The Great Leslie remains almost untouched throughout).”