The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

Basil Rathbone: Mr. Black

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Quotes 

• Mr. Black : [as he's dying again]  "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more..."

  Trumbull : I'll believe that when I see it.

• [repeated line] 

  Mr. Black : [upon waking up from his death in unfamiliar surroundings]  What place is *this*?

• Mr. Black : [fighting to get out of the coffin into which Trumbull and Gillie have put him and which they are fighting to keep closed]  Let me out of here!

  Trumbull : We most certainly will *not* let you out of here, sir!

  Mr. Black : Confound you, sir!

  Trumbull : Confound you too, sir! Will you KINDLY have the goodness to die?

  Mr. Black : *Never!*

• Mr. Black : [after awakening from a cataleptic trance in the mortuary basement]  Mr. Trumbull... this man... what... what am I doing here?

  Trumbull : [recovering from his shock]  Well, you're here because you're dead, Mr. Black.

  Mr. Black : The hell I am!

  Trumbull : Oh yes you are. Everybody else knows you're dead, Mr. Black, except apparently you.

  Mr. Black : What jiggery-pokery is this?

  Trumbull : Not jiggery-pokery, Mr. Black... Hinchley and Trumbull, Funeral Parlor.

  Mr. Black : [realizing what Trumbull means]  You wouldn't dare!

  Trumbull : [after a pause]  Have we a choice, Mr. Black?