The Comedy of Terrors

1964 · 84 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 7,390 VOTES · DIR. Jacques Tourneur

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Overview

An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.

Dialogue Timeline — 944 lines

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00:04:26 My dear wife, as the ancient saying goes...
00:05:58 be qualifications?
00:08:03 How nice to see you, sir.
00:11:09 Will you stop that ungodly caterwauling!
00:13:21 Who, in your discerning estimation...
00:17:04 Did you try the knob?
00:22:52 succumbed in his sleep, and I must run to fetch the doctor.
00:26:20 Never mind.
00:28:30 And you shut up, too.
00:30:39 "is not received by morning...
00:33:28 Well?
00:35:34 All right, I'll try, but I can't promise.
00:37:56 "I will not yield...
00:40:13 Oh.
00:43:38 And me for getting the horses to bed.
00:46:23 What are you trying to do?
00:49:14 I wish she would have picked another song.
00:52:29 It's like parting from an old friend.
00:56:55 Couldn't you find it in your heart to love me, Waldo?
00:59:31 For thee too must sleep, like all the others.
01:06:31 "Macbeth doth murder sleep!"
01:10:42 Poor man? He tried to chop your head off.
01:14:30 I thought you were dead.
01:17:49 "Out brief candle."

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed944
Dialogue density11.2 lines / min
First line00:04:26
Final line01:17:49

Production Record

DirectorJacques Tourneur
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes7,390