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Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, and Joyce Jameson in The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

Basil Rathbone: Mr. Black

The Comedy of Terrors

Basil Rathbone credited as playing...

Mr. Black

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

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