The Brass Bottle Page #2

Synopsis: Comedy about the proverbial genie who comes out of a bottle (a table lamp in this instance) to serve his new master. The only problem is that instead of helping his master, the genie (Burl Ives) tends to get his master (Tony Randall) into more predicaments than he gets him out of.
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Director(s): Harry Keller
Production: Universal
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Year:
1964
87 min
88 Views


Yay. Solomon is Suleyman

and Suleyman is Solomon.

Um, let's go talk

to Seymour, shall we?

He's a big King Solomon fan.

Nay, what I have to relate

is for thy ears alone.

Know, oh, young man

of kindness and noble deeds,

that I had a kinswoman

of such surpassing beauty

that King Suleyman

took her as wife 1001.

And it came to pass

that a certain Jarjarees,

son of Rejmoos,

informed the king

that she was my beloved

and not my kinswoman.

Well, that was a pretty

dirty trick.

The great Suleyman,

on whom be peace,

was angered and commanded

that I be imprisoned

in that bottle

and cast into the sea,

there to abide the day of doom.

If I were to serve thee

a thousand years,

I could not requite thee

for my deliverance.

Don't mention it. Excuse me.

Operator,

get me the police instantly.

I don't know if he's violent.

Get here before I find out.

All right, I'll stall him.

But send the nearest

patrol car in a hurry.

You'll find the key

is wrapped in a handkerchief

on the front walk. Hurry.

Wondrous changes have taken

place in the centuries

I have been imprisoned.

Most remarkable.

And what manner

of creature abide

in these diminutive edifices?

Those are models of homes.

I'm an architect.

Ah, a useful calling.

Perhaps thou has heard

of a friend of mine,

Mubarak, Son of Asnam?

He designed tombs

in the land of Egypt.

Triangular ones.

But no, that was centuries ago.

Ah. And this is thy

honored name,

Harold Ventimore?

- Yes.

- Son of?

My mother and father.

Truly thou must be an architect

of remarkable repute.

No, I'm afraid not.

So far,

I haven't been able to land

a single client of my own.

Client?

What is this client of which

thou speakest?

Oh, anybody who wants

a house built,

or an office building,

or even a gas station.

- Gas station?

- Uh-hmm.

A station that sells gas

and oil.

Oil?

For lighting or anointing?

For automobiles. And don't ask

what an automobile is.

You're going to be riding

in one in one minute.

Up here, officers.

Right in here.

Where is he?

Where'd he go?

He was here. The window.

Even Tarzan

couldn't get out this way.

Out or in.

Mr. Ventimore,

when you left for Paris

six years ago,

we threw a big wing-ding down

at the precinct.

We figured au revoir,

he's the problem

of the gendarmes now.

Why did you have to come back?

I swear to you,

there was a lunatic

in this room.

There still is.

I don't know how he got out.

For that matter,

I don't even know how he got in.

All I know is that

when I opened my eyes,

there he was.

What do you mean

when you opened your eyes?

Well, I had this slight

accident.

I-- I bumped my head.

All right, Joe,

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Oscar Brodney

Oscar Brodney (February 18, 1907 – February 12, 2008) was an American lawyer-turned-screenwriter. He is best known for his long association with Universal Studios, where his credits included Harvey, The Glenn Miller Story (1954), several Francis movies and the Tammy series. more…

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