Stage Fright (1997)

[pigeons cooing]
Hat!
[growling, barking]
[laughing]
[mumbling]
Oh! Ah!
You bugger!
[howling]
- [audience chattering]
- [man] All right, come here then.
Haven't got one, have you?
Oh, that's better.
- Hmm.
- [barking]
[sighs]
[clears throat]
- He'll turn up, Tiny.
- Huh?
He'll turn up, I know he will.
He's been gone so long.
Oh, chin up. Got your
audience to think of now.
On you go, duck.
Oh, Daphne,
they don't like me anymore.
They hate me!
Oh, Tiny, come on.
What do we always say?
"The show must go on."
All right... yes... right.
[cheering]
[Daphne] They used to come just
to see Tiny and his dogs...
...but times were changin'.
[audience booing]
The audience had only
one thing on their minds.
[applause]
The latest film.
[sobbing]
- [organ music plays]
- [cheering]
[dog barks]
- Come on.
- [barking]
[clears throat]
[man] And cut.
- Was I good, Mr. Hugh?
- You were all right.
Not as good
as the dog, though.
- Can I return him now?
- No! I'll take him back.
There's money to be made
out of these things.
I want a word with this dog man.
- But Mr. Hugh?
- What?!
Be gentle with him. He's having a hard
time at the moment, what with film...
- Listen!
- [gasping]
If you want any more parts
in my pictures...
More than anything,
Mr. Hugh. I...
...then you'll keep your
mouth shut! All right, my love?
- Oh!
- [Hugh chuckling]
[Daphne] But it wasn't the end.
It was only the beginning.
I was leaving the theater for
my glamorous new film career.
I had to move on.
It's safe in the basket.
[Daphne] Arnold Hugh
went from success to success.
Everyone loved
his canine capers.
Ah-choo!
All the while, I knew it
was Tiny training the dogs,
but I never said a word.
Year after year, Arnold
Hugh took all the credit.
- [barking]
- Until we did the musical.
? Let's stroll
down the riverbank?
? Let's take our time?
? When everything
is said and done?
? And you want
to have some fun?
? There's only one thing to do?
- ? As the sun becomes the moon?
- Have lunch!
? Stroll down
the riverbank with you?
[Tiny] OK, boy.
Just one more time.
Hat!
- Oh, good boy, clever boy...
- [Hugh] Stand up!
- ? Roll down the riverbank?
- ? Fall down the riverbank?
- ? Stroll down the riverbank with you?
- [howling]
Oh my, looks like
we almost forgot Bonzo.
- [barking]
- [Hugh] Looks like we almost forgot my hat.
[both] Good old Bonzo.
- You're only half my height, you fool.
- [moaning]
How do you expect the animal
to reach my head, eh?
That's more like it.
But I don't know
if he can jump that high.
You bloody well
make him jump that high.
Uh...
Or I'll bring a red-hot poker
with me next time.
[Hugh laughing]
[grumbling]
Who says you can't teach
an old dog new tricks?
Ready, Bonzo?
Hat!
Ah! Cut! Cut!
- Let go!
- [growling]
Ah!
What's going on?
You great bully!
Right, bloody dog man.
That's it, I've had enough.
[Daphne] If it meant my film
career was over, I didn't care.
The bullying had to stop.
So, you've turned on me
after all these years.
- You drove me to it!
- Drove you to it?
I've looked after ya!
Looked after him, Arnold, you?
You've kept him a prisoner.
- Oof!
- Tiny!
Oh, Tiny, I'm so sorry.
It's all my fault.
Daphne!
What are you doing here?
If I'd never been
so ambitious, I'd...
- Oh, you treacherous minx!
- No!
- [growling]
- [grunting]
Tiny, no!
- [Hugh] You whelp!
- [Daphne] Tiny!
Tiny, help!
[Hugh growling]
Hat!
- Huh?
- [barking]
Call 'em off.
Call 'em off, dog man.
Get back.
Get back, I say!
Typical. Bite the hand
that's fed you all these years.
All those boxes
of sausages I bought ya.
I must have spent a fortune!
Can't you see how
I've looked after ya?
- [barking] - You
ungrateful, bug-eyed weevils.
- Ha-ha!
- Ah!
- No!
- Right.
- No!
- Now, I'll show ya! All of ya!
[dogs whimpering]
Tiny!
Oh, Tiny!
- [dogs whimpering]
- [Daphne sobbing]
- [organ playing]
- Oh!
Hello.
Tiny.
[both gasp]
[echoing] Going down.
[organ music]
[rumbling]
Hurry, Tiny. Quickly.
C'mon, hurry!
But Daphne,
what if they still
hate me out there?
- Oh, come on, Tiny.
- But...
I want to end
back in my basket.
Oh, Tiny, you can't stay here.
You have to face them now.
Don't you see, Tiny, this will
be the performance of your life!
And I'll be
with ya this time.
After all...
[both] The show must go on!