Roger Ebert credited as playing...
Self - Host
- Roger Ebert - Host: I'm told that "Little Indian, Big City" was a big hit in France. Over here, "Little Indian, Big City" was a big flop. If the French laughed at this, it helps me to understand why they think Jerry Lewis is the funniest man on Earth. In a movie filled with one scene after another, a consistent thread throughout the film was the awfulness of the dubbed dialogue, in which people speak English as if it had been translated out of French via a third language not known to either side. When we saw this movie, one of the reels was missing. A man from the movie company told us we could see the missing reel the next day. My colleague here informed him, quote: "If it was the legendary missing footage from "The Magnificent Ambersons", this movie would still suck." Very well said.
- Gene Siskel - Host: [chuckles] Thank you very much...
- Roger Ebert - Host: You're welcome.
- Gene Siskel - Host: ...For remembering that. I forgot I...
- Roger Ebert - Host: It was a very nice line.
- Gene Siskel - Host: Thank you so much. Now, I wanna tell you something: I was in France, as you know, this summer.
- Roger Ebert - Host: Yes.
- Gene Siskel - Host: At the end of my trip, in Paris, at Brasserie Lipp, a great restaurant...
- Roger Ebert - Host: Yes, uh-huh?
- Gene Siskel - Host: ...I confronted my friend- my newfound French friends about this movie...
- Roger Ebert - Host: Yes? Uh-huh?
- Gene Siskel - Host: And they said, "We're astonished too. We thought it was horrible."
- [Roger laughs]
- Gene Siskel - Host: I mean, I don't know what's going on there. That's a country, they got 12% unemployment, who knows what's going on.
- [Roger laughs loudly]
- Roger Ebert - Host: [after showing clips from "House Arrest" and "Joe's Apartment"] I would love to have a documentary of the story conference...
- Gene Siskel - Host: The pitches?
- Roger Ebert - Host: ...For some of these movies. WHAT did they tell each other? How, they're gonna write a check for MILLIONS of dollars. When you and I go out and buy a car, we probably think a lot harder about that than these people think about a $30 million budget for a COCKROACH movie. What are they thinking of?
- Gene Siskel - Host: Well, the number may be a little high, but the spirit...
- Roger Ebert - Host: Okay, a $20, $10, what would be the RIGHT price for a cockroach movie?
- Gene Siskel - Host: How about quarreling parents, trapped in a basement, attacked by cockroaches?
- [Ebert laughs]
- Gene Siskel - Host: NOW you've got a movie!