Daily Dialogue — August 4, 2010

“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly, he had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.”

 — Pearl Harper (Sally Jane Bruce), The Night of the Hunter (1955), screenplay by James Agee, based on a novel by Davis Grubb

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is notable opening lines. The Night of the Hunter was suggested by Josh.

Trivia: In his biography, Robert Mitchum stated that director Charles Laughton found the script by James Agee totally unacceptable; he paid off Agee, sent him packing and rewrote virtually the entire script himself, uncredited.