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It's a terrible death to be talked to death
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Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight!

It's a terrible death to be talked to death

Mark Twain:
[just before the first intermission]
It's a terrible death to be talked to death

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It's a terrible death to be talked to death
Duration
5 seconds
Views
210
Timestamp in Movie
00:30:48
Uploaded
Nov 01, 2022
Genres
documentary, comedy
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, 'Hal Holbrook' portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians, newspapermen and so-called patriots in this 90 minute monologue. Holbrook adapted Twain's...

Actors

Hal Holbrook
Mark Twain (samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Hal Holbrook
Oh I used to tell lies - Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! 00:12
Oh I used to tell lies
When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so stupid - Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! 00:21
When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so stupid
Man's own son - Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! 00:34
Man's own son
And I stopped and one of them says - Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! 00:36
And I stopped and one of them says
Well then says I what's the use in you learning to do right - Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! 00:13
Well then says I what's the use in you learning to do...
Well it's a comical invention the human race any way you look at it - Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! 00:17
Well it's a comical invention the human race any way...
I wonder if God invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey - Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! 00:08
I wonder if God invented man because he was disappointed in...
Man is really the most interesting jackass there is - Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! 00:13
Man is really the most interesting jackass there is
Because because you see man is also the religious animal - Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! 00:12
Because because you see man is also the religious animal
When it's wrong - Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! 00:33
When it's wrong
Well that California 'get rich quick' disease of my youth spread like wildfire - Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! 00:36
Well that California 'get rich quick' disease of...
And political head of the whole of it - Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! 00:25
And political head of the whole of it