My Uncle Benjamin
1969 · 90 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 836 VOTES · DIR. Édouard Molinaro
Overview
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason he resists the efforts of his sister Bettine to marry him off to Arabelle, the daughter of old Dr. Minxit. Benjamin does agree to go and meet the girl. But that evening his sister finds him at the inn together with Manette, who is arrested by her father. So she decides to go with Benjamin herself. But as result of an incident with the fat Marquis puts paid to the expedition. Benjamin is subjected by the Marquis to a humiliating practical joke. Benjamin is determined to got his revenge. He succeeds thanks to the gorgeous Vicomte Hector de Pont-Cassé, who also helps Manette with her problems against her father. But Benjamin is now arrested by the Marquis...
Dialogue Timeline — 1,071 lines
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00:00:33 At the time I'm taking you back to...
00:05:21 Good! Abductions are tiring affairs and I'm exhausted.
00:08:26 ...who gave me five little Machecourt girls?
00:13:11 Just like me when I was your age, I tell you.
00:16:21 I don't want to die a country doctor.
00:19:02 Oh, the fat bourgeois! One should think he wetted his pants.
00:23:45 Because during the battle of Fontenoy...
00:26:18 ...I wouldn't ask any other eternity of Him.
00:29:06 By God!
00:35:07 Aunt Bettina told everything. Mr. Minxit is rising an army to avenge you.
00:39:06 - No, thank you! My bed! - Mr. Minxit, please! My poor wife...
00:41:42 I know him. I met him already. He's a friend of Cambise's.
00:45:16 La Rochelle will soon need another governor and It's very possible that...
00:48:18 Well, in order to avoid upsetting you, I'll just wound him.
00:51:43 With my thrust, It's the other one who'll go, up there.
00:56:33 But love caught up with me and I am a prisoner.
00:59:53 Oh, not at all. I'm as serious as the holy father. Now get inside.
01:03:46 Alas! I can't always let you slip through my hands.
01:06:45 You were right. A chair for the Reverend! Quick!
01:10:49 Yes, Sir, I recognize you now.
01:16:06 The insult was public, the compensation must be too.
01:21:38 His Manny's prosecutor decided your arrest.
01:26:00 Sit down, my friends. Please.
40:01:00 you've owed me for three years!