Large cut out of the budget??

[Platapus]

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Weeeell.... okay. As long as there's no fighting in the War Room.

[Platapus]

Floridation. Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Frau Kaluen. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.

[frau kaleun]

Heh.

Finally watched that all the way through in one go this weekend. Had seen most of it here and there but for some reason never really got all that into it.

It took getting to the part where the Prez has to call the Soviet leader on the phone to give him a 'heads up' before I was completely hooked.

"Well, what happened is... one of our base commanders... he went and did a silly thing..."

PURE GOLD.

I have to wonder how much of that bit was Peter Sellers ad-libbing, and how the rest of the cast managed not to ruin every take by busting out laughing.

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I have to wonder how much of that bit was Peter Sellers ad-libbing, and how the rest of the cast managed not to ruin every take by busting out laughing.

Almost all of it, actually. Sellers was given the basic structure and outcome of the scene, and carried on as he does
Lionel Mandrake's story about his false leg was totally ad-libbed too, apparently the cast and crew had trouble staying quiet during filming

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

Almost all of it, actually. Sellers was given the basic structure and outcome of the scene, and carried on as he does
Lionel Mandrake's story about his false leg was totally ad-libbed too, apparently the cast and crew had trouble staying quiet during filming

There's a bit about that in the Special Features on the Blu-Ray disc I had, they said he was supposed to say something about having "a thing" with his leg (old war wound presumably) but it came out "the string in my leg" and he just rolled with it. Or maybe he intended to say "string" all along, who knows.

But that whole long thing of him on the phone with "Dmitri" is worth the price of admission.

[Tchocky]

Something tells me we have the same DVD edition

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I have to wonder how much of that bit was Peter Sellers ad-libbing, and how the rest of the cast managed not to ruin every take by busting out laughing.

According to the Behind the Scenes story, most of what he did was improvised and yes the crew and cast were cracking up. Some of crack ups can be seen in the movie.

Trivia: 55% of the total budget for the movie went to pay Sellers' salary.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Platapus

According to the Behind the Scenes story, most of what he did was improvised and yes the crew and cast were cracking up. Some of crack ups can be seen in the movie.

Trivia: 55% of the total budget for the movie went to pay Sellers' salary.

Worth every penny.

"Well I'm not calling just to say hello, Dmitri... no, of course, I like to say hello to you. Of course it's a friendly call. Look, if it wasn't friendly, you wouldn't be getting it..."

[Platapus]

Peter Sellers was supposed to play a 4th part

What was the fourth part and why didn't he end up playing it?