[Captain Jack Aubrey]

I had not seen this movie until this week on TCM. I agree with all the comments here about how good and bad the film is. It has its moments but it also gets pretty stupid.

I thought I would fall out of my chair when George C Scott was arguing with the president and walking backwards in the war room when he tripped over his own feet and fell, did a roll and came up still talking. The stance he struck on getting up almost killed me--sort of like "ta-daaa."

Very funny scene.

[beaver fever]

"I thought I would fall out of my chair when George C Scott was arguing with the president and walking backwards in the war room when he tripped over his own feet and fell, did a roll and came up still talking. The stance he struck on getting up almost killed me--sort of like "ta-daaa."

It was like "ta-daaa". Scott actually tripped and kept speaking his lines. Kubrick liked the take and kept it in.

[beaver fever]

Also in the last scene Sellers forgot his lines and stood up out of the wheelchair and shouted, "Mein Fuhrer! I can valk!" Total add lib. Kubrick kept that in too and abandoned the pie fight as a result.