Road to Bali (1952)
Bob Hope: Harold Gridley
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Quotes
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[One of the film's many cameos]
Princess Lala : Look!
George Cochran : The African Queen! Humphrey Bogart?
Harold Gridley : Boy, is he lost!
George Cochran : Hey! Hey, Bogie!
[All three run toward Bogart]
Harold Gridley : Hey, jungle fever! That's what we got. That was just a mirage!
George Cochran : Oh yeah? What about this?
[Holding up a trophy]
George Cochran : Humphrey Bogart's Academy Award!
Harold Gridley : An Oscar! Gimme that, you got one. Friends, this is a great occasion, me receiving this Academy Award. And I'd like to say a word...
[roar from offstage]
George Cochran : Run!
Harold Gridley : That's the word!
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Harold Gridley : He's gonna sing, folks. Now's the time to go out and get the popcorn.
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Princess Lala : Do you always fight over girls?
Harold Gridley : Well, what else can we fight over? We've never had any money
[Looking straight into the camera]
Harold Gridley : That's for Washington!
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[performing for Princess Lala's court as Scottish bagpipers, a humorous homage to her late Scottish father, MacTavish]
Harold Gridley : Say, Haggis!
George Cochran : What is it, MacBaggis?
Harold Gridley : Have you heard the latest about MacTavish?
George Cochran : What's he done now?
Harold Gridley : I heard he's living on the roof!
George Cochran : Why would he be living on the roof?
Harold Gridley : Because he heard someone say, "Drinks are on the house!"
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[Harold has been caught in a tree snare, proving the island is inhabited]
George Cochran : I wonder what the locals are like?
Princess Lala : I hope they're not cannibals or headhunters!
Harold Gridley : I hope they're orange pickers, I want to get out of this tree!
George Cochran : Oh, stop squawking, you'll fall off when you're ripe!
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Harold Gridley : Is that the way all the natives dress on your island?
Shirtless Male Native : Nods
Harold Gridley : Really? George, do you suppose...
George Cochran : Not a chance.
Harold Gridley : Stick around folks, he could be wrong you know.
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[George and Harold are surrounded by beautiful native women. Offstage voice shrieks "A-ough! Oh no!"]
George Cochran : What's that?
Harold Gridley : Oh, that's Errol Flynn. He can't stand it.
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[a female ape has sat on Harold's lap]
George Cochran : Oh, buster, I don't like the look in her eye!
[the ape swings a paw at George]
Harold Gridley : George, get a rock, a club, anything! Kill one of us!
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[George and Princess Lala pull Harold down]
Harold Gridley : This is the sloppiest hanging I ever attended!
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Harold Gridley : [whistles, indicating Lala's headdress with a golden spire] This kid's got her own antenna.
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Ken Arok : You will *love* Vaatu. It is an island paradise.
Harold Gridley : Girls, huh?
Ken Arok : Could it be paradise without girls?
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Harold Gridley : Say, I haven't looked for work since I was night watchmen at Vassar
[a college for women only, until 1969]
Harold Gridley : .
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Harold Gridley : [Caught in an animal trap and suspended in the air] Get me down! My brain's rushing to my head.
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Harold Gridley : Don't fool with the fun flute unless you consult with the master.
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George Cochran : And here we are in life as in death, we face it together. C'est la guerre.
George Cochran , Harold Gridley : La guerre.
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Harold Gridley : I find that Lala is intoxicating!
George Cochran : It's no wonder - she's part Scotch!
Harold Gridley : Yeah, and with me as a chaser...
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Harold Gridley : You know, music hath charms to soothe the savage beast!
George Cochran : [pedantically] Breast, that is.
Harold Gridley : [implores emphatically] Beast, breast, SING!
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Harold Gridley : You collapsable Como!
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Harold Gridley : Gridley, Harold Gridley- sportsman, raconteur, polo player, and all around good egg.