The Patsy
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- It was such a pleasure.
- It's great.

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It's like you and your piano player.
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You just give him a look and
he knows exactly where to go.

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- Nobody shook.
- No, nobody.

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- That wasn't written.
- That whole crossover?

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That whole crossover,
that whole handshake shtick.

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But because it's such a large set, the
camera just stays with that walkover.

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Yeah.
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This was one of my favourite sets
because it was very huge

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and it afforded me an opportunity to
move people around much more easily

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because the repertory company
in the film was seven people.

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So you could put them in any area,
relight a section...

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- Exactly.
- That's wonderful.

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The unique part about this movie
is that

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five of the key characters
directed in theatre.

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They were directors in theatre.
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- Peter Lorre.
- He was one. Everett Sloane the other.

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Keenan Wynn the other.
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The fourth director was Carradine,
John Carradine.

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So there I sit in the middle of the stage,
talking down the shots.

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I got four directors staring at me!
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But nobody said anything to you because
they had regard for you as the director.


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