Another Fine Mess (1930)
Stan Laurel: Stan
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Quotes
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Stan : [as Agnes the Maid] Bedrooms, let's see, there's mine and the master's and the master's and mine. That's four.
Lady Plumtree : No no, there's the master's then yours. That's two.
Stan : Oh, yeah. Then there's the nursery.
Lady Plumtree : A nursery? I didn't know the colonel was married.
Stan : Oh, he has that in case of accidents.
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Stan : [posing as the butler] You wish to see Colonel Buckshot?
Lord Leopold Plumtree : Why, I'd LOVE to! Hauw-haw-haw-huh-huh-huh-huh!
Stan : [turning away and calling toward the stairway] Colonel Buckshot!
[a few seconds pass with no answer]
Stan : Oh, Ollie - - uh - - Colonel Buckshot!
[No answer]
Stan : [speaking to Lord Plumtree and his wife] Wait there.
[He walks several yards to the foot of the stairs, then cups his hand to his mouth and hollers up the stairs]
Stan : Colonel BUCKshot...
[using his classic shrill whistle]
Stan : ... HHREEE-YER-REEET!
Ollie : [posing as Colonel Buckshot] What is it, Hives?
Stan : [wincing at the derogatory name Hardy has chosen for him] Lord Appletree - - he wants to rent a room.
Lord Leopold Plumtree : No, no, my dear fellow - - 'PLUMtree'. 'PLUMtree'. Lord Leopold 'Plumtree' - - my card. And I wish to rent the entire HOUSE.
[inspects the new card that Lord Plumtree has given him, then absently tosses the first card away]
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Lady Plumtree : Agnes, how long have you been here?
Stan : [in drag as the maid] About half an hour.
[realizing what she has said]
Stan : Oh, heh!
[laughs]
Stan : How silly of me! I'm so nervous. Heh, I mean half a year - to be exact, three months!
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Lord Leopold Plumtree : Oh, by the way, Colonel, do you have any horses?
Ollie : [posing as Colonel Buckshot] I'm sorry... I've just shipped all my horses to my plantation in Kentucky.
Lord Leopold Plumtree : Kentucky? What part of Kentucky do you come from, Colonel?
Ollie : [fondly and grandly] Omaha... dear old Omaha!
Stan : I thought Omaha was in Wisconsin.
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Lady Plumtree : Tell me Agnes, how many maids does the Colonel keep?
Stan : [dressed as a maid] Oh, he never tells me his private affairs.
Lady Plumtree : Private affairs? Why, servants aren't private affairs.
Stan : Oh, some of them are.
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Lady Plumtree : How many beds are there?
Stan : I haven't looked yet.