Supposedly this phrase was uttered by a young Tony Curtis in the 1951 movie “The Prince Who Was a Thief”.
Any clips oh him saying this phrase? YouTube has nothing,
I must be getting old. I would have bet it was from “The Black Shield of Farnsworth.”
I thought it was supposed to be The Vikings?
I’ll check that out. Re interesting Tony Curtis clips there’s always this one.
According to his memoirs, the movie was Son of Ali Baba and the line was “Yonder in the valley of the sun is my father’s castle.” American Prince: A Memoir - Tony Curtis, Peter Golenbock - Google Books
One of my favorite 50’s movies, but no “Yondah faddah” lines in that one. Loved the music, and Janet Leigh’s pointy bra, and Kirk Douglas’s eyepatch, and Ernie Borgnine.
Tony Curtis never said exactly that line in any of his movies. There’s a common urban legend that he said it in The Black Shield of Falworth. He said something close to it in Son of Ali Baba:
Playboy reported back in the 1970s that it was The Black Shield of Falworth. I watched the movie in vain, not finding the line, and figuring it was an Urban Legend. I didn’t hear until now that there might be some sort of basis for it – I figured it was the result of comedians making fun of Tony Schwartz’s extreme Bronx accent.
An artist friend of ours did a fantasy painting that she entitled “Yonder Lies the Castle of my Father.” Nobody in it looks like Tony Curtis.
He did say something remotely similar in “Black Shield.” Curtis’s character’s father is indeed a king, a fact he doesn’t learn until adulthood When he finds out, he does say something like, “You mean he’s my foddah?” It also seems as though he mentions “my foddah” more than once. I think this is probably the source of the mangled purported “quote.”