Harry and the Butler

Name: Harry and the Butler
Director: Bent Christensen
Released: 1961
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Osvald Helmuth, Ebbe Rode, Gunnar Lauring, Henning Moritzen, Lise Ringheim

1961 · 101 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 534 VOTES · DIR. Bent Christensen

Overview

A gentle comedy offering the promise of easy social consensus. Harry (Helmuth) is a simple old-time shop porter offered a chance at self-realisation when he's bequeathed a sum by an unknown relative (via several levels of fiscal blood suckers). He decides to engage a butler to take good care of him for a time. This is a man of distinguished upper class service, but a generous nature which happily integrates with Harry's small but colourful world of drinking buddies and crackpot neighbourhood kids.

Dialogue Timeline — 818 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:01 Hello, Harry. I'll pick you up after work.

00:06:27 Yes; I was foolish enough to have you guard the place.

00:10:04 Now let me hear all about this bright idea you've gotten.

00:14:11 OUT OF ORDER!

00:17:30 Apart from your being unbearable I have nothing against you.

00:23:04 - But, dammit, that's got to be... - Igor!

00:26:53 Yes, Viggo, this something the two of us usually don't talk about.

00:30:21 Apply in person this first Monday between 3 and 4 pm.

00:33:18 - I'm a big girl - Is it serious?

00:38:34 Unfortunate that I'm not better oriented.

00:45:06 - Is that good weather? - Not for trout fishing.

00:51:15 - I'm getting all nervous. - That is in no way unusual.

00:57:18 It's fastened with a clothes pin!

01:00:48 - I can't sell it. - Hardly surprising.

01:05:03 No, the cards have been dealt, Fabricius. It's too late to change my ways.

01:09:11 Then we must find out why.

01:12:24 Get going, Orla.

01:16:07 It's supposed to be like when others make a criminal album.

01:19:12 for just now those things could happen

01:22:31 No!

01:26:17 - for a symbolic payment.

01:31:04 - I'll be damned. - It stays in place.

01:34:44 What did Fabricius suggest?

01:38:00 So you find those terms acceptable?

Cast & Characters

Osvald Helmuth Gamle Harry Ebbe Rode Fabricius Gunnar Lauring Biskoppen Henning Moritzen Fyrst Igor Lise Ringheim Magdalene Lily Broberg Trine, Café Dråbens værtinde Olaf Ussing Krause, bilforhandler Palle Kirk Heisenberg, 8 år Aage Fønss Herskabstjener I Ejner Federspiel Herskabstjener II

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed818

Dialogue density8.1 lines / min

First line00:01:01

Final line01:38:00

Production Record

DirectorBent Christensen

LanguageDanish

IMDb votes534