Bourbon Street Blues

1979 · 26 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 100 VOTES · DIR. Tilman Taube, Hans Schönherr, Douglas Sirk

Overview

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It depicts the conflict between a dreamy, delusional heroine and her brusque, practical landlady, who wants to kick her out of her apartment.

Dialogue Timeline — 162 lines

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00:00:39 - Thank you, Sir. - Welcome.
00:07:11 - Yes, who is it? - It's me!
00:07:57 I'm sorry, Mrs. Wire, but you being the landlady - I have to tell you that
00:08:38 and whizzed through the room - and it nearly hit me on the nose!
00:09:14 Every old house in the neighborhood has them.
00:09:46 Even the ordinary pedestrian kind disgust me profoundly.
00:10:20 When I wake up to find one of those crawling critters on my sheets -
00:10:53 as soon as the cockroaches are gone. If not, I'll leave this house.
00:11:37 Then don't! Pack up your shabby belongings and move where there
00:12:13 hasn't forwarded the quarterly payment. It has been overdue
00:12:54 I've had it with your rubber plantation and your punctual Mr. King.
00:13:21 It means I know first hand from Thrift Store Lily.
00:13:54 female monster's squealing has disrupted my afternoon nap.
00:14:37 Dead birds, is what you are. Always the same spiel.
00:15:16 didn't exist for that lonely woman that has been dealt such a lousy hand
00:15:49 The masterpiece you keep blabbering about - it belongs right up there
00:16:22 It wouldn't exist, Mrs. Monster - except for a few scribbled pages
00:17:00 boozing joint to the next, one bottle after the other
00:17:43 world of fabrications - what satisfaction would you, Mrs. Wire
00:18:21 Those that are shoved up one's trap by the hard fist of necessity
00:19:12 Filthy scum!
00:20:59 No, of course not. Everything was spotless. At all times. Always.
00:21:48 famous White Cliffs of Dover?
00:22:29 You're welcome. You're very welcome.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed162
Dialogue density6.2 lines / min
First line00:00:39
Final line00:22:29

Production Record

DirectorTilman Taube, Hans Schönherr, Douglas Sirk
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes100