Bedknobs and Broomsticks
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 film from Walt Disney Pictures, starring Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson.
- Directed by Robert Stevenson. Screenplay by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi based on the novels of Mary Norton.
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[edit] Miss Price
- Children and I don't get on.
- [reading from Professor Browne's letter] "Technically a witch is always a lady except when circumstances dictate otherwise."
- Victory for England, and St. George!
- You see, Colonel, things are not always what they seem to be.
- [after turning King Leonidas into an animated long-tailed rabbit] Oh, bother. I do hate shoddy work.
[edit] Mr. Browne
- [Mr. Browne takes the Star of Astoroth.] I'll keep it. Women always lose things.
- [An old man is playing dreary music on a piano which he is selling.]
Oh, Grandpa, you don't expect to sell a piano like that, do you? - [Mr. Browne is approached by two scantily-clad dancers who take him by either arm.]
Lovely to see you—goodbye! - The college, alas, is now defunct.
- Will you please get this child off my leg?
- Observe the fundamental weakness of the criminal mind. You will believe no one or anything.
- It is not what things are; it is what they seem to be. Is that not so, Madam?
- ...
- Stallkeeper: The snippers that clipped old King Edward's cigars.
- Mr. Browne: Made in Hong Kong—two bob a dozen, I'd say.
[edit] Other
- Bookman: Close your mouth, Swinburne!
- Mrs. Hobday: Another package from Professor Emelius Browne in London. He sent you a cat last time, did he not?
- Charlie: Knock his block off!
- [Secretary Bird notices King Leonidas' star necklace is missing and reacts]
- King Leonidas: [growls] Stop jibbering! [hits Secretary Bird on the head] What's the matter with you?
- Secretary Bird: [blubbing] Your royal star! They're stolen your royal star.
- King Leonidas: [laughs] Don't be ridiculous! What do you think this is?
- [King Leonidas dangles a whistle in front of Secretary Bird who blows on it, King Leonidas roars so loudly, he blows Secretary Bird's clothes off]
- King Leonidas: [yelping] WHYYYYYYYY DIDDDDDN'T YOUUUUUUUUUUUU SAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?!
[edit] Dialogue
- [A British army officer's car stops at a junction on a country road where an elderly man is painting over signposts.]
- Captain Greer: You there! Which way to Pepperinge Eye?
- Elderly Man: Couldn't say, sir—said on the wireless to paint out the signposts in case the Nazis drop in.
- Captain Greer: I'm not a Nazi, I'm a British officer!
- Elderly Man: …that's what you say if you was a Nazi, isn't it sir?
- [Miss Price has just arrived on an old motorbike, emitting blasts of yellow smoke. After she has gone, the two army officers begin to speak.]
- Captain Greer: Who is that?
- General Teagler: Miss Price—splendid woman. Her late father served with me at Vimy Ridge.
- Captain Greer: What's she burning in this thing?—It smells a bit like sulphur.
- General Teagler: Nonsense! One can't make a motor fuel out of sulphur!
- Carrie: Who else lives here?
- Miss Price: I live alone—it suits my purposes.
- Miss Price: Supper is at six. You will wash, thoroughly—
- Charlie: Wash?!
- Miss Price: You will wash yourselves, otherwise there will be no supper, is that clear?
- [Miss Price leaves the room.]
- Charlie: A house of horrors, that's what we've come to.
- [Charlie notices an odd bottle on a shelf in Miss Price's office.]
- Charlie: Poisoned dragon's liver?!
- Miss Price: Poisoned dragon's liver.
- Paul: Do you poison the dragon or just the liver?
- Miss Price: It comes prepared. It's part of the school equipment.
- Paul: Is this London?
- Carrie: 'Course it is. Can't you smell that lovely sooty air?
- Mr. Browne: I found the door open, the curtains closed—the house was deserted.
- Miss Price: Why on earth would someone do a thing like that?
- Mr. Browne: I would say this may have something to do with it… [gestures towards an unexploded bomb]
- Miss Price: Merciful heavens! I should be terrified at the very idea of living here.
- Mr. Browne: You would have thought so, wouldn't you? I am, by nature, a little bit of a coward—but then I pondered, as I often do: in the perverse nature of things, this diabolical object is probably the best friend I ever had. It has enabled me for the first time in my life to live like a king. Shall we go in?
- Charlie: Why d'you keep the curtains closed?
- Mr. Browne: So we can enjoy our cheese and wine in the gentle glow of candlelight.
- Charlie: I bet it's so the coppers won't catch you hiding out here.
- Paul: What is this—a toyshop?
- Carrie: No, it's a nursery. Ain't you ever seen a nursery?
- Charlie: [to Carrie] No, and neither have you.
- [Miss Price is searching in Mr. Browne's library, standing on a ladder attached to a rail on the high shelves.]
- Mr. Browne: What's your name?
- Miss Price: [disinterestedly] Miss Price.
- Mr. Browne: No—I mean your first name.
- Miss Price: Eglantine.
- Mr. Browne: Eglantine...Eglantine... [He pushes the ladder upon which Miss Price is standing along the rail, startling her.] Oh, how you shine!
- Miss Price: [reading from the book she has found at last] Ah! "Substitutiary locomotion. The ancient art of..." [She reads for a few moments in a whisper.] Ah! Here we are: "The spell which creates this force is five mystic words. These words are—" [She pauses incredulously, and turns over the tattered leaves of the book.] ...But the rest of the book is missing!
- Mr. Browne: Now you see why I closed down the college.
- Mr. Browne: I will cause the bed and all its occupants to disappear.
- Bookman: Disappear? I'd like to see a cheap jack entertainer do a trick like that.
- Mr. Browne: Cheap jack entertainer. Now that was naughty.
- [Miss Price's belongings inadvertently come to life after she recites an ancient magical spell. Mr. Browne begins to dance with a nightdress.]
- Miss Price: That's my nightgown!
- Mr. Browne: Is it really, my dear?
- Miss Price: Yes, and I'm not responsible for its behavior.
- Mr. Browne: Obviously not, my dear.
- [Miss Price and the children are being held captive in her house by German soldiers.]
- Miss Price: Colonel, how would you feel about being turned into a nice white rabbit?
- Colonel: Be quiet, please.
- Miss Price: Paul, kindly fetch me my notebook from my office.
- [The officers restrain Paul in much commotion. Miss Price stands up, points at the Colonel, but cannot remember the correct words to the incantation.]
- Miss Price: Filigree, apogee, epigee...!
- Paul: That's not a rabbit—that's Mr. Browne, that is!
- Miss Price: If you are Mr. Browne, would you kindly get down off my lap?
- [Carrie tries on some elaborate jewellery at a market stall and admires herself in a mirror.]
- Stallkeeper: Who do you think you are, the Queen of Sheba?
- Charlie: Hurt your foot, Miss Price?
- Miss Price: Oh, just twisted my ankle.
- Charlie: Sorry to hear that.
- Miss Price: Thank you. It's nothing serious.
- Charlie: Lovely weather for flying last night.
- [heavy pause]
- Miss Price: Why did you say that, Charles?
- Charlie: [bringing out her broken broomstick] Game's up, Miss Price. We know what you are.
[edit] External link
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks quotes at the Internet Movie Database
