Dennis Price credited as playing...
Hector Snipe
- Edward Lionheart: I always admired you as a critic, Snipe. Your clever use of analogy and metaphor, plus you always strived to be complimentary. But not always complimentary.
- Hector Snipe: Critics make mistakes, Lionheart. We're only human.
- Edward Lionheart: An opinion I find myself incapable of sharing.
- Hector Snipe: You must admit I was most enthusiastic about your performance as Achilles.
- Edward Lionheart: Oh, yes. Yes, now that you mention it, I vaguely recall you wrote some review.
- Hector Snipe: I remember it very well. I wrote "Edward Lionheart's Troilus and Cressida must be considered as a brilliant theatrical achievement, and his own performance as Achilles unsurpassed." Well, something of that sort.
- Edward Lionheart: A splendid review, my dear Snipe. Splendid. What else did you say?
- Hector Snipe: More in the same vein.
- Edward Lionheart: Let me refresh your memory.
- [reads]
- Edward Lionheart: "... Achilles unsurpassed. This clearly is Lionheart's own view. That actor's oft-expressed desire for solitude is well known. He must derive much satisfaction in knowing that he is absolutely alone in his opinion of this lamentable production."
- Edwina Lionheart: It's all right, sir. You're among friends, sir.
- Hector Snipe: Thank you. I was beginning to get a bit nervous.
- Edward Lionheart: We were just rehearsing Troilus and Cressida. Specifically the scene where Hector, thinking he's among friends, is unexpectedly killed by them.
- Hector Snipe: Lionheart, I came here for an interview, not a lecture on Shakespeare. Now tell me the amazing story of your resurrection.
- Edward Lionheart: It's a grave tale, Snipe. But I think you can rise to the occasion.
- [Snipe is catapulted onto the stage, where the tramps begin to attack him]