The Wrong Box (1966)

Peter Sellers: Doctor Pratt

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Quotes 

• [the doctor, owner of dozens of cats, is coughing] 

  Doctor Pratt : I'm all right; it's just a fur ball; it's nothing. Strangely, I haven't had fur for a fortnight.

• Doctor Pratt : Well, it'll cost you five shillings.

  Morris Finsbury : Price is no object.

  Doctor Pratt : Right. Ten shillings, then. Payable in advance.

• Morris Finsbury : I was wondering - do you by any chance happen to have any - uh - death certificates?

  Doctor Pratt : Do I happen to have any death certificates? What a monstrous thing, sir - what a monstrous thing to say to a member of the medical profession! Do you realize the enormity of what you have just said?

  Morris Finsbury : Yes. Do you have any death certificates?

  Doctor Pratt : How many do you want?

• Morris Finsbury : Dr. Pratt? Are you Dr. Pratt?

  Doctor Pratt : Are you from the police?

  Morris Finsbury : No.

  Doctor Pratt : Well, I am Dr. Pratt.

• Morris Finsbury : Dr. Pratt

  Doctor Pratt : Come in.

  Morris Finsbury : I was here earlier. You asked me to return.

  Doctor Pratt : Oh, yes, yes. I've got what you want. Here... black currant jelly. It contains 12 grains of arsenic. Just spread it on your mother's bread and butter.

  Morris Finsbury : Doctor, I wanted a death certificate.

  Doctor Pratt : Oh, you've done her in already, have you?

• [repeated line] 

  Doctor Pratt : I was not always as you see me now!

• Morris Finsbury : I collect eggs, doctor.

  Doctor Pratt : Yes, I enjoy an egg myself. They don't make good pets though. You can never get them in at night. They're too quiet.

• Doctor Pratt : Now then, take off your clothes and cough.

  Morris Finsbury : Doctor, it's not me.

  Doctor Pratt : It's certainly not me, sir. It's probably one of my cats.

• Morris Finsbury : Dr. Pratt. Rouse yourself, Dr. Pratt.

  Doctor Pratt : What... I tell you, the lady was already dead when I arrived, constable.