A Night at the Opera (1935)
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00:00 Will you do me a favor and stop yelling my name all over this restaurant?
00:02 Do I go around yelling your name?
00:03 - Mr. Driftwood! - Say, is your voice changing
00:06 or is somebody else paging me around here?
00:07 - Mr. Driftwood! - Why, Mrs. Claypool, hello!
00:11 - Mr. Driftwood, you invited me to dine with you at 7 o'clock.
00:14 It is now 8 o'clock, and no dinner.
00:16 - What do you mean no dinner? I just had one of the biggest meals
00:18 I've ever ate in my life, and no thanks to you either.
00:20 - I've been sitting right here since 7 o'clock.
00:23 - Yes, well you're back to me.
00:23 When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face.
00:26 That's the price she has to pay.
00:27 - You're checked, sir.
00:29 (whistles)
00:30 - $9.40? This is an outrage!
00:32 If I were you, I wouldn't pay it.
00:34 Now then, Mrs. Claypool, what are we going to have for dinner?
00:38 - You've had your dinner. - All right, we'll have breakfast.
00:40 Waiter! - Yes sir?
00:42 - Have you got any milk, fat chicken? - Yes sir.
00:44 - Well squeeze the milk out, I want to bring me a glass.
00:47 - Yes sir.
00:48 - Mr. Driftwood, three months ago,
00:50 you promised to put me into society.
00:51 In all that time, you've done nothing
00:53 but draw a very handsome salary.
00:55 - You think that's nothing, huh?
00:56 How many men do you suppose are drawing
00:57 a handsome salary nowadays?
00:59 Why, you can count them on the fingers of one hand.
01:01 My good woman. - I'm not your good woman.
01:03 - Don't say that, Mrs. Claypool.
01:05 I don't care what your past has been.
01:06 To me, you'll always be my good woman, because I love you.
01:10 There...I didn't mean to tell you,
01:11 but you dragged it out of me.
01:13 I love you.
01:14 - It's rather difficult to believe that
01:15 when I find you dining with another woman.
01:17 - That woman? Do you know why I sat with her?
01:20 - No. - Because she reminded me of you.
01:23 - Really? - Of course!
01:25 That's why I'm sitting here with you,
01:26 because you remind me of you.
01:28 Your eyes, your throat, your lips...
01:30 Everything about you reminds me of you, except you.
01:34 How do you account for that?
01:35 She figures that one out, she's good.
01:37 - Mr. Driftwood, I think we'd better keep everything
01:39 on a business basis.
01:41 - How do you like that?
01:42 Every time I get romantic with you,
01:43 you want to talk business.
01:45 I don't know, there's something about me
01:46 that brings out the business in every woman.
01:48 All right, we'll talk business.
01:51 You see that man over there eating spaghetti?
01:53 - No.
01:54 - Well you see the spaghetti, don't you?
01:56 Now behind that spaghetti is none other
01:57 than Heumann Gutlieb, director of the New York Opera Company.
02:01 - Do you follow me? - Yes.
02:03 Then stop following me, I'll have you arrested.
02:05 Now, I've arranged for you to invest $200,000 in the New York Opera Company.
02:08 - I don't understand. - Don't you see?
02:10 You'll be a patron of the opera. You'll get into society.
02:13 Then you can marry me and they'll kick you out of society.
02:16 And all you've lost is $200,000.
02:18 - Ah, Mr. Thriftwood! - Ah, Gutlieb. Allow me.
02:22 Mrs. Claypool, Mr. Gutlieb. Mr. Gutlieb, Mrs. Claypool.
02:25 Mrs. Claypool, Mr. Gutlieb. Mr. Gutlieb, Mrs. Claypool.
02:28 Mrs. Claypool, I could go on like this all night, but it's tough on my suspenders.
02:32 Now, where was I? Oh, yes.
02:33 Mrs. Claypool, Mr. Gutlieb. Mr. Gutlieb, Mrs. Claypool.
02:35 Mrs. Claypool, Mr. Gutlieb. Mr. Gutlieb, Mrs. Claypool.
02:38 Now, if you four people want to play bridge, don't mind me. Go right ahead.
02:41 Oh, dude.