Under the Volcano
1984 · 112 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 6,491 VOTES · DIR. John Huston
Overview
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,306 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:22 **[Symphonic: Modernist, Folkloric ]
00:09:31 It's a good story.
00:13:09 Since that marvelous agreement between your prime minister and our führer.
00:17:30 for those who have nobody with...
00:23:06 I wrote you I was coming. Didn't you get my letters?
00:28:05 I was the ingenue then.
00:32:15 [ Groans, Shudders ]
00:38:34 always carefully cradled your lemon wedges.
00:44:09 Still I -
00:48:03 I just popped out for the champagne, bumped into an old college chum.
00:51:55 I think-
00:56:07 Hello, Doctor.
01:00:13 Offer me bread and sugar skulls to help me on my journey into the next world?
01:03:15 Perhaps we should get away from here, away from Cuernavaca.
01:07:07 [ Laughing ]
01:12:36 - "Hin fish?' - Nice "hin fish. "
01:16:20 and both times he showed up again at the front.
01:20:25 Toreador! Toreador! Toreador!
01:23:46 cr - crawling back.
01:28:05 You want, uh, a little girl? Petra.
01:32:38 It's not possible.
01:40:29 Nothing.
01:43:34 No comprendo.
01:47:56 [ Groans ]
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,306
Dialogue density11.7 lines / min
First line00:00:22
Final line01:47:56
Production Record
DirectorJohn Huston
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes6,491