Rhinoceros (1974)
PG | 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 21 January 1974 (USA)
A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.
Director: Tom O'Horgan
Writers: Eugène Ionesco (play) (as Eugene Ionesco), Julian Barry (screenplay)
Stars: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black
PG | 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 21 January 1974 (USA)
A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.
Director: Tom O'Horgan
Writers: Eugène Ionesco (play) (as Eugene Ionesco), Julian Barry (screenplay)
Stars: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black
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00:00What is a rhinoceros?
00:10Carl is a rhinoceros.
00:11You're talking gibberish.
00:13Nicholson became a rhinoceros?
00:15The press just made it up.
00:16They do these sort of things just to sell papers.
00:18No!
00:19I was changed all the way here by a rhinoceros.
00:30What is that thing?
00:31Rhinoceros!
00:33Rhinoceros is an agonizingly funny great movie,
00:36according to the Boston Herald of America.
00:38Based upon Eugene Ionesco's audacious,
00:41outrageous masterpiece of the modern theater.
00:44What's going on?
00:45Rhinoceros, brilliantly directed by Tom O'Horgan,
00:48says the critic of the Dallas Times-Herald,
00:51this comedy is a joy to see.
00:53He obviously enjoyed turning into a rhinoceros.
00:59I don't have a bump!
01:01Your voice is hoarse, John.
01:10I'm hungry!
01:12Hungry!
01:14Rhinoceros, starring the one and only,
01:16incomparable Zero Mustache.
01:18You must get back to primeval integrity!
01:21The inimitable Gene Wilder.
01:23People who try to hang on to their individuality
01:26always come to a bad end.
01:29And the intoxicating Karen Black.
01:31We have to try to learn their language!
01:34Can you honestly say that that's a language?
01:38I'm a human being.
01:42I'm just a human being.
01:44Rhinoceros, Eugene Ionesco's classic stage comedy
01:47of western civilization,
01:49becomes a wild, wild movie.
01:52Rhinoceros!