Road to Bali (1952)

Bing Crosby: George Cochran

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Quotes 

• [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!

• [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!"

• [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!

• 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.

• [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.

• Bob Crosby : [Man in safari clothes with a rifle wanders into scene]  HI!

  George Cochran : Hi, go ahead!

  Bob Crosby : [Raises rifle and fires into the air]  Thank you!

  George Cochran : OK.

  [Man exits scene] 

  Princess Lala : Who was that?

  George Cochran : That's my brother Bob, I promised him a shot in the picture.

• [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!

• Princess Lala : [showing a portrait of a woman in regal dress]  She was my mother, Queen Tama of Vaatu.

  George Cochran : Hm, beautiful.

  Princess Lala : [indicating the portrait next to it of a man in a kilt]  And he was my father.

  George Cochran : Didn't anybody in the family wear the pants?

• George Cochran : [as he and Harold wander through a flock of sheep]  Ya know, for a couple a guys on the lam, we're in pretty good company.

• George Cochran : As he's being bathed and perfumed by several natives: "I feel so deliriously deMille-ish!"

• 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.

• 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...

• 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!

• George Cochran : Let's get the sap out of the tree.