Casanova's Big Night (1954)
Bob Hope: Pippo Popolino
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Quotes
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[frequently repeated phrase]
Pippo Popolino : Farffel farffel pippick.
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[the Doge formally toasts Casanova]
Lucio : [Whispering warningly so that others at the table don't here] Don't toast YOURSELF!
Pippo Popolino : The wine's free and I'm thirsty!
Lucio : [Whispering in his ear again] Mind your manners!
Pippo Popolino : Oh, please stop nibbling on my ear. Don't let this beauty mark fool you, too.
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Francesca Bruni : Well, then take your mask off.
Pippo Popolino : Oh, no. I couldn't do that. I haven't got anything on underneath it.
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Francesca Bruni : Your lips are fire.
Pippo Popolino : I know. Saves a fortune on matches. Don't turn in the alarm.
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Pippo Popolino : Don't be frightened, Francesca. I'm scared enough for all of us.
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Lucio : [introducing Francesca on the fly] This is... his, um... um, his first cousin.
Pippo Popolino : First by a mile!
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Pippo Popolino : [as Francesca seduces him into playing Casanova with a kiss] It's just like I always suspected: girls are softer than fellas. If this is the way they live in Venice, let's hurry! We can still catch the 7:15 gondola!
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Elena Di Gambetta : [Hearing her family trying to get in to save her honor] Run! Hide!
Pippo Popolino : Casanova never runs, but he hides!
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Pippo Popolino : This is Lucio, my food taster.
Foressi : Your food taster?
Pippo Popolino : Yes. You can't get good food tasters these days. The slightest hint of poison and they quit!
Francesca Bruni : [after laughter] Lucio is my cousin's ninth food taster.
Pippo Popolino : Tenth, counting Mother.
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Pippo Popolino : [to Maggioni] Oh, please, spare my miserable life! I'll work off the debt! I'll make more wine for you. I've got big feet! What grapes I can't trample on I can sit on!
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Pippo Popolino : What's Casanova got that, if I had, I probably couldn't handle anyway?
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Casanova : Pippo, I need your horse. He isn't much but he's better then running down the road on foot.
Pippo Popolino : Run?
Casanova : Shh!
Pippo Popolino : But why should My Lord run? Everybody's waiting in the kitchen to get paid.
Casanova : Exactly why, my friend. I haven't a ducat.
Pippo Popolino : Casanova penniless? Oh, but you owe them a fortune. They'll be bankrupt.
Casanova : I know. It's very sad. The whole time I am running, there will be tears in my eyes.
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Raphael, Duc of Castelbello : [finding it difficult to believe Pippo is Casanova] Uh, you were described to us as, uh, regal, handsome, intelligent, virile, uh...
Pippo Popolino : That's good enough for mixed company, but then, after all, none of us look too good in the morning, especially after a night out - and what a night I had out.
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Maria : Casanova, in person?
Pippo Popolino : In person, in love, and in a hurry. Kiss me!
[Pippo embraces Maria fiercely]
Maria : Oh, sir, you're too impetuous.
Pippo Popolino : I have to work fast. Venice is a big city. I'm getting to the age where I can only work a couple of canals a day.
Maria : But there should always be some polite conversation first.
Pippo Popolino : Well, if you insist on formalities - "Delightful weather we're having." Conversation over. Kiss me!
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Pippo Popolino : I have been a great lover for over twenty years, man and boy. The boy's worn out, but the man...? Hm! Ask any woman in Italy.
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Pippo Popolino : Oh, now, let's make a deal. I won't kill any of you if you don't kill any of me.
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Bragadin : Signor Casanova, you do Venice a great honor by your visit.
Pippo Popolino : Oh, it's nothing. I like to spread it around.
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Pippo Popolino : Oh, you look so pretty. I can't think of anybody I'd rather have my throat cut with.
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Pippo Popolino : Hiding behind a woman's skirts, huh?
Stefano Di Gambetta : That's what YOU'RE doing!
Pippo Popolino : I knew it was ONE of us.
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Pippo Popolino : Oh, and by the way, leave your name and address with my valet. If I can't call you, maybe he will. He's skinny but fun.
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Pippo Popolino : Women are like oranges. You've squeezed one, you've squeezed them all.
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Pippo Popolino : What time is it?
Prisoner : About seventeen-fifty-eight.
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Francesca Bruni : You only have one life.
Pippo Popolino : If you work it right, one is enough.
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Pippo Popolino : I can't let her down. I'd never be able to look another needle in the eye.
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[last lines]
Pippo Popolino : [Bob Hope as himself] What's the matter with this theater? Don't they sell popcorn?