We strayed from the formula, and we paid the price.

— Harry Flugleman (Joe Mantegna)

5 seconds sound clip from the Three Amigos (1986) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:12:04.350 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- We've got to get back to basics, Shooting for Love, Wanderers of the West, The Ride of the Three Amigos.

- All the great Amigo pictures had one thing in common, three wealthy Spanish landowners who fight for the rights of peasants.

- Now, that's something everyone likes. It's a people idea. It's a story a nation can sink its teeth into.

- But then came Those Darn Amigos. A box office failure.

- Nobody went to see it because nobody cares about three wealthy Spanish landowners on a weekend in Manhattan.

- We strayed from the formula, and we paid the price.

- I thought we were quite good in it.

- Good? We were great.

- Why don't you tell the boys about the Cochise picture, Morty?

- Sandy and Irving are working on it right now.

- You meet Cochise. At first, you think he's a terrible guy. You fight. Then, you get to know him, you come to respect each other, and at the end of the picture, you're friends.

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