Noises Off...
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1992
- 101 min
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"Noises Off..."
[doorman] Curtain's going up.
Curtain is going up!
Curtain's going up.
[man] A big Broadway opening.
Everybody who's anybody in New York
is inside this theater tonight.
Everybody but one man.
This man. Me!
Lloyd, where are you going?
Didn't you direct this?
I just have to...
- One of two things.
- [Lloyd] One thing, get out of this theater.
Mr. Fellows,
anything wrong with your seat?
- It's facing the stage.
- No, just go ahead.
It's gonna be a disaster.
I can't just sit there and watch.
Five seconds,
and we still haven't got a laugh.
I'm not running away.
I'm just not a person who gets a kick
out of watching an automobile crash.
Particularly when it's my automobile.
It'll be the worst catastrophe
Broadway's ever seen.
the set will fall down.
None of us will
get out of New York alive.
They've got big pictures of us in the lobby.
I'll get on a plane.
I should've got on a plane
when we first opened in Des Moines.
I should've got on a plane
before we opened in Des Moines.
I should've got on a plane
at the dress rehearsal,
as soon as that curtain went up
at the beginning of Act I.
As soon as that damn phone rang,
and Dotty came on
with that first plate of sardines.
[phone rings]
[woman] Hold on! Hold your horses.
Oh, Lord love a duck!
Shut up, I'm on my way.
It's no good you going on.
I can't open sardines
and answer the phone.
I've only got one pair of feet.
Hello?
Yes, but there's no one here, love.
No, Mr. Brent's not here.
He lives here, yes, but he don't live here
now because he lives in Spain.
Mr. Philip Brent,
the one that writes the plays,
only now he writes them in Spain.
Nope, she's in Spain, too.
They're all in Spain.
Am I in Spain?
No, I'm not in Spain, dear.
I look after the house for them,
only I go home at 1:00 on Wednesdays.
So, that's where I am.
No, because I got a nice plate of sardines
to put me feet up with.
And they got color here
and it's the Royal...
What's it called?
You know, the horse race.
Where'd the paper go?
If it's about letting the house,
then you'll have to ring the house agents
'cause they're the agents for the house.
Squire, Squire, Hackham
and who's the other one...
No, they're not in Spain.
They're next to the phone in the study.
Squire, Squire, Hackham and...
Hold on, I'll go and look.
Always the same, isn't it?
Soon as you take the weight off your feet,
then it all comes on your head.
And I take the sardines.
No, I leave the sardines.
No, I take the sardines.
[Lloyd] You leave the sardines
and you hang up the phone.
Yes, right. I hang up... the phone.
[Lloyd] And you leave the sardines.
I leave the sardines?
You leave the sardines.
I hang up the phone
and I leave the sardines?
Right!
We've changed that, have we, dear?
- No, dear.
- That's what I've always been doing?
I wouldn't say that, Dotty, my precious.
How about the words, dear?
Am I getting some of them right?
Some of them have a very familiar ring.
It's like a slot machine up here.
I know that, Dotty.
I open my mouth and I never know
what's going to come out.
Three oranges or two lemons
and a banana.
Anyway, it's not midnight yet.
And we don't open till tomorrow.
You're holding the receiver.
I'm holding the receiver.
"Squire, Squire, Hackham".
And "hold on". And noises off.
Squire, Squire, Hackham
and hold on, don't go away.
I'm hanging up the phone.
Always the same, isn't it?
Put your feet up for two minutes
and they all come running after you.
Hold it!
My housekeeper, yes,
but this is her afternoon off.
Hold it, Larry. Dotty!
We've got the place entirely to ourselves.
Hold it, Brooke.
Dotty!
Come back?
Yes, and go out again
with the newspaper.
The newspaper?
Oh, the newspaper.
Hang up the phone, you leave the sardines
and you go out with the newspaper.
- Here you are.
- Sorry, hon.
It's just the tech rehearsal.
It's the dress rehearsal, Garry, hon.
- When was the tech rehearsal?
- When's the dress? We open tomorrow.
We're all thinking of it
as the tech, aren't we?
- All those words...
- Don't worry about the words!
And that accent.
It's coming out like oranges and lemons.
Your words are fine. Your words are better
than the... you know what I mean.
- Isn't that right?
- Sorry?
Okay, so he's the... fine!
But, dear, you've been
playing this kind of part for...
Jesus, you know what I mean!
All right, Garry and Brooke are off.
Dotty is holding the receiver.
No, but here we are. We're all thinking,
"My God, we open tomorrow.
"We had two weeks to rehearse. We don't
know where we are, but here we are"!
That's right, sweetie! Isn't it?
Beautifully put, Garry.
We've got to play Des Moines
this week, then Pittsburgh,
and then God knows where, and where
else, and so on, for God knows how long.
We're all feeling pretty much...
- Aren't you?
- Sorry?
Anyway, you're off
and Dotty's holding the phone.
Sometimes you have
to come right out with it.
- I know.
- Thanks.
So, you're off.
Let me just say one thing,
since we've stopped.
I've worked with a lot of directors.
Some were geniuses, some were bastards,
but I've never met one who was
so totally and absolutely, I don't know...
Thank you, I'm very touched.
Now will you get off the f***ing stage?
- And Brooke?
- Yes?
- Are you in?
- In?
- Are you there?
- What?
You're out, okay. I'll call again.
And on we go,
so there you are holding the receiver.
There I am holding the receiver.
I hang it up, I leave the sardines.
- Always the same story...
- And you take the newspaper.
I take the newspaper.
I leave the sardines.
Always the same story.
It's a weight off your mind,
it's a load off your stomach.
And off I go at last.
Leaving the receiver.
My housekeeper, yes, but...
And, noises off.
Stage!
My housekeeper, yes,
but this is her afternoon off.
We've got the place
entirely to ourselves.
I'll just check.
Hello? Anyone at home?
No, there's no one here.
So, what do you think?
Great and this is all yours?
Just a little shack in the woods really.
- Converted posset mill, 16th century.
- Must've cost a bomb.
One has to have somewhere
to entertain associates.
Someone coming at 4:00, in fact.
Arab, oil, you know.
I've got to get those files
to our Basingstoke office by 4:00.
Yes, we'll only just manage to fit it in.
I mean, we'll only just do it.
- Right.
- We won't bother to chill the champagne.
- All these doors.
- Just a handful, really.
Study, kitchen and
a service flat for the housekeeper.
- Terrific, and which one's the...
- What?
- You know.
- Through here.
Fantastic.
Only now I've lost the sardines.
I'm sorry, I thought there was no one here.
I'm not here, I'm off.
Only it's the Royal.
The horse race, where they wear
those hats all covered in fruit.
- And who are you?
- I'm from the agents.
- Squire, Squire, Hackham and Dudley.
- Which one are you then?
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