The Black Monocle

1961 · 88 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 406 VOTES · DIR. Georges Lautner

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Overview

The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle.

Dialogue Timeline — 923 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:20 Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg a minute of your time
00:06:32 A few years ago, you could still see the blood.
00:09:13 It’s an old wives’s remedy but it works like a charm.
00:12:02 Will you allow us, madam?
00:15:17 Gentlemen...
00:18:01 We don’t need to invent him. Adolf Gormann will be with us.
00:21:10 Since Gormann is here, why don’t we discuss all of this with him?
00:24:15 He’s ours.
00:31:07 Interesting but somewhat protracted.
00:36:28 Be quick about it. I’m waiting for you.
00:39:10 Nobody came in, you say?
00:41:14 Mr. Curator is really... very nice to women.
00:44:04 Can you see the knife you’re using?
00:47:19 I fear he was the victim of a tragic misunderstanding.
00:50:06 Let’s go. But... let’s not be careless.
00:55:00 and we might as well never have existed.
00:58:39 - It feels like war, Matthias. - It is war, Bénédicte.
01:01:40 Send Mérignac to me as soon as he’s discharged from prison.
01:06:54 - But he's lost his touch. - How did you escape them?
01:10:22 - I had a suspicion, a feeling... - Did you, now? A suspicion...
01:13:01 We pack. We bump the witnesses off then take advantage of the night and go.
01:15:35 It won’t be long.
01:26:05 But I was really frightened this time.
01:29:52 we’re not the sort of people one should associate with.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed923
Dialogue density10.5 lines / min
First line00:00:20
Final line01:29:52

Production Record

DirectorGeorges Lautner
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes406