The Time of Their Lives
The Time of Their Lives is a 1946 American film about two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
- Directed by Charles Barton. Written by Walter DeLeon.
FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DIE LAUGHING! (taglines)
Mildred Dean
[edit]- [to Emily] Pardon me, but did I see you in Rebecca?
Dialogue
[edit]- Horatio Prim: [he and Melody collide and are wearing each other's clothes] Odds bodkins, we're all mixed up!
- [they run into each other again and get back into their own clothes]
- Horatio Prim: Melody, don't ever do that again, I'm a boy!
- Sheldon Gage: What's the matter, Tom?
- Cuthbert Greenway: Bottles flying through the air, glasses filling themselves up, and somebody tooted into my stethoscope!
- Melody Allen: Horatio, be patient.
- Horatio Prim: Be patient? Melody, do you realize that my girlfriend Nora has been waiting for me for 165 years? And a girl will only wait so long, and no longer!
- Horatio Prim: Cuthbert, Melody, it's Cuthbert! He's still alive!
- Melody Allen: How can that be?
- Horatio Prim: I don't know, they say only the good die young.
- Emily: [in a trance and speaking with the voice of Thomas Danbury] Melody, my beloved, it's Tom. I've come to help you.
- June Prescott: Oh, Shelly, what does it mean?
- Sheldon Gage: It-it must be Danbury speaking through Emily.
- Mildred Dean: Oh, fine. A ghost to ghost broadcast.
Taglines
[edit]- FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DIE LAUGHING!
- Something NEW from BUD and LOU!
Cast
[edit]- Bud Abbott — Cuthbert Greenway / Dr. Ralph Greenway
- Lou Costello — Horatio Prim
- Marjorie Reynolds — Melody Allen
- Binnie Barnes — Mildred Dean
External links
[edit]
- The Time of Their Lives quotes at the Internet Movie Database