Charlotte's Web is a 1973 film , based upon E.B. White's 1952 book about a pig who is saved from being slaugthered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte.
Dialogue
- Wilbur: [singing] Isn't it great, that I articulate?/Isn't it grand? That you can understand/I don't snort, I don't eep, I don't even squeak or squawk/When I wanna say something, I open up and talk, I can talk, I can talk, talk, talk, I can...
- Old Sheep: Would you keep it down?
- Wilbur: I can talk.
- Old Sheep: Sheep do not play with pigs.
- Wilbur: Why not?
- Old Sheep: Oh, it's a matter of status. Sheep, for instance, are highly regarded by Zuckerman, because we furnish him with good quality wool. With pigs, on the other hand, it's just a matter of time.
- Wilbur: Time to what?
- Old Sheep: Till you're fat enough to kill.
- Wilbur: What did you say?
- Old Sheep: Oh, everybody knows it. In the fall, you'll be turned into smoked bacon and ham. Just as soon as cold weather sets in, they'll kill you.
[Wilber asks Goose if she would like to play with him]
- Goose: I'm no flibberty-ibberty-gibbit!
- Charlotte: Salutations.
- Wilbur: Salu-what?
- Charlotte: Salutations.
- Wilbur: What are they? And where are you?
- Charlotte: Salutations is my fancy way of saying hello.
- Avery Arable: Can I have a pig too, Pop?
- John Arable: I only distribute pigs to early risers, and Fern was up at daylight trying to rid the world of injustice.
[Wilbur is eyeing Charlotte's egg sack]
- Charlotte: I'm versatile.
- Wilbur: Does "versatile" mean "full of eggs"?
- Charlotte: No it means I can change with ease from one thing to the next.
- Charlotte: It would serve you right if you had an acute attack of indigestion.
- Templeton: My stomach can handle anything.
[Charlotte is looking for a new message to write in her web]
Lamb: How about "Pig Supreme"?
Charlotte: No good. It sounds like a rich dessert.
[Templeton walks past with an apple core towards the trough, and Charlotte glares at Templeton]
Goose: How about terrific, terrific, terrific?
Charlotte: Cut that down to one terrific and it will do nicely. I think terrific might impress Zuckerman.
Wilbur: But Charlotte, I'm not terrific.
Charlotte: You're terrific as far as I am concerned.
[Templeton, while holding a piece of orange in his mouth, smacks Wilbur's face with his tail and walks off to the trough]
Charlotte: [after glaring at Templeton] Does anybody know how to spell it?
Goose: I think it's T double-E double-R double-R double-I double-F double-I double-C, C, C.
Charlotte: What kind of an acrobat do you think I am? It would take me all night to write a word like that into my web.
Old Sheep: I would advise you not to consult geese in matters of spelling. The word is spelled T-E-R-R-I-F-I-C.
Goose: I still think it's prettier spelled T-double E-double R-...
Charlotte: Please! Let me spell it my way.
- Goose: [to Templeton] If Wilbur is killed and his trough stands empty day after day, you'll grow so thin we can look right through your stomach and see objects on the other side.
[When Templeton sees all the food on the ground at the fair]
- Templeton: The goose was right, this fair is rat's paradise.
[The family arrives at the farm to take Wilbur to the fair]
- Homer Zuckerman: There he is!
- Mr. Arable: That's some pig.
- Lurvy: He's terrific.
- Avery: He's radiant.
- Mrs. Zuckerman: Well, he's clean anyway. That buttermilk certainly helped.
[After the goose's eggs have hatched]
- Wilbur: Congratulations! How many are there?
- Goose: There are seven.
- Charlotte: Seven is a lucky number.
- Goose: Luck has nothing to do with it! It was good management and hard work.
- Templeton: [looking at a solitary unhatched egg] Why didn't, uh, this one hatch?
- Goose: [gloomily] It's a dud, I guess.
- Templeton: What are you going to do with it?
- Goose: [sternly] You can have it! Throw it away and add it to that nasty collection of yours! Be careful - a rotten egg can be a regular stink bomb!
- Templeton: [patting the egg] I know what I'm doing. I handle stuff like this all the time.
[Templeton rolls the egg away]
Voice Cast
- Debbie Reynolds as Charlotte A. Cavatica
- Paul Lynde as Templeton
- Henry Gibson as Wilbur
- Rex Allen as Narrator
- Danny Bonaduce as Avery Arable
- Pamelyn Ferdin as Fern Arable
- Joan Gerber as Mrs. Zuckerman and Mrs. Fussy
- Bob Holt as Homer Zuckerman
- Dave Madden as Ram and others
- Don Messick as Jeffrey
- Agnes Moorehead as The Goose
- Charles Nelson Reilly
- Martha Scott as Mrs. Arable
- John Stephenson as Arable
- Herb Vigran as Lurvy
- William B. White as Henry Fussy
- Written by Earl Hamner Jr. (based on the book by E.B. White)
- Directed by Charles A. Nichols & Iwao Takamoto
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