Oliver! (1968)
Harry Secombe: Bumble
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Quotes
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Oliver Twist : Please sir, I want some more.
Mr. Bumble : [thinking he must not have heard right] What?
Oliver Twist : Please sir, I want some...
[pauses hesitatingly]
Oliver Twist : more?
Mr. Bumble : [surprised beyond belief] More?
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Mr. Brownlow : In the eyes of the law, you are the more guilty of the two, for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction.
Mr. Bumble : If that's what the law supposes, sir, then the law is a ass! If that be the eyes of the law, sir, then the law is a bachelor!
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[about Oliver]
Mr. Bumble : Mother came to us destitute. Brings a child into the world, takes one look at him and promptly dies - -without leaving so much as a forwarding name and address!
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Mrs. Sowerberry : He's gone mad, Mr. Bumble, or he wouldn't dare to speak to you like that.
Mr. Bumble : It's not madness, ma'am, it's meat.
Mrs. Sowerberry : Meat?
Mr. Bumble : Meat, ma'am, meat. You've overfed the boy, ma'am. It raised an artificial spirit in the lad unbecoming to his station in life. This would never have happened if you kept him on gruel.
Mrs. Sowerberry : Gruel?
Mr. Bumble : I'll be glad to give you the recipe.
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Mr. Bumble : [grabs Oliver] Now then, what's your explanation, you young scalawag?
Oliver Twist : He called my mother names!
Mrs. Sowerberry : And what if he did? You ungrateful little wretch! She deserves what he said, and worse!
Oliver Twist : She didn't!
Mrs. Sowerberry : She did!
Oliver Twist : It's a lie!
Mr. Bumble : Hold your tongue, boy!
Mrs. Sowerberry : Put him in the cellar, Mr. Bumble! That'll teach him!
Sowerberry : My love?
Mrs. Sowerberry : Yes?
Sowerberry : It's really quite comfortable.
[She sighs]
Mr. Bumble : [pushes Oliver down to the cellar] You will stay down there until we decide what's to be done with you!
Noah Claypole : Here's your baggage, workhouse!
Mrs. Sowerberry : £3, indeed! You can take him back!