James and the Giant Peach (1996)

Pete Postlethwaite: Old Man

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Quotes 

• James : What are they?

  Old Man : Crocodile tongues.

  James : Tongues?

  Old Man : Long, slimy crocodile tongues boiled in the skull of a dead witch for 40 days and 40 nights. And, the gizard of a pig, the fingers of a young monkey, the beak of a parrot and three spoonfuls of sugar, and then, let the moon do the rest.

• [last lines] 

  Old Man : And that is exactly what you have just seen.

• [first lines] 

  Old Man : This is James Henry Trotter. He lived with his mother and father in a cozy little house by the sea.