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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Don Firth Date: 13 Aug 06 - 01:48 PM Classic movie line from a Classic Movie: "Leeches! I hate leeches!" Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Peace Date: 13 Aug 06 - 01:05 AM "That's to find out." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Old Guy Date: 13 Aug 06 - 01:01 AM Right on Ciderhouse rules. I searched up the movie about the runaway carrousel or merry go round. It was Strangers on a Train from 1951, supposedly Hitchcock's best thriller. The way I remember it the merry go round was stopped but in reality it blew apart before it was stopped, My young mind must have blocked that out. More quotes: They feed us the slops from the Morpheum Theater. You hope for MilkyWay, you settle for Skittles. I'm Steve-- Steve King. Ah, pigs: an omnivorous, domesticated, cloven hoof vertebrate that defecates the same place it consumes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Don Firth Date: 12 Aug 06 - 11:33 PM So I actually did learn something! All that time I spent hanging out at the Pizza Haven and the Blue Moon talking to various friends and acquaintances when I probably should have been home studying wasn't an egregious waste of time after all! Thanks, Slag! I feel a whole lot better now! Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Slag Date: 12 Aug 06 - 10:56 PM You hit the head of the nail Don, three roads, like Four Corners, will foster a village and there at the intersection the local will come to chat about the weather or who is doing what. That's my recollection. Cider House Rules for "Good night you princes of Maine..."I didn't like this heavy-handed, lecturing movie. How about "... the Hell I won't!" (fist impacts face) or "I lead a complicated life." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Bill D Date: 12 Aug 06 - 10:54 PM well, no one seems to want to notice or try the one I posted .. "No!" It is the one line of dialogue in Mel Brooks "Silent Movie"...spoken by Marcel Marceau, playing himself.....probably the only time he has ever spoken while in makeup. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: The Walrus Date: 12 Aug 06 - 10:10 PM As no-one seems to want to try the question I left earlier: Easy 5: "...Withdraw your horse from about your ears and take your head out of his arse, Sir!..." and "...There My Lord, There are your enemy, There are your guns..." These are from "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1968 version) , IIRC they were Trevor Howard (Cardigan) to Harry Andrews (Lucan) and David Hemmings (Nolan) to Trevor Howard respectively. Easy 6: "...Sweat 'em down, Staff..." "...Then there's the Commandant. The Commandant signs a piece of paper. He'd sign his own death warrant if I placed it in front of him... " and "...New scum and old scum are a bad mix..." All are lines from Harry Andrews (as the RSM) in "The Hill" Easy 7: "...Oh I do like to see a lot of soldiers, Soldiers are what I like to see, And if they're the type that have a horse Well I like them more of course Because I do love the cavalry..." (Okay, the last one is sung to himself by a character as he prepares.) Sir John Mills as General Sir John French in "Oh What a Lovely War!" That particular scene finds him preparing a ticket booth on the pier/Entrance to the War. W |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Don Firth Date: 12 Aug 06 - 03:26 PM ". . . where does the word "trivia" come from?" Hmm. . . . Back in the Sixties, I had a guitar student named Doug Johnson. He was my last lesson for the evening, so when it was over, we'd adjourn to the local Pizza Haven where you could get an eight-inch pizza (a good late evening snack) for 75¢. Coffee was 15¢ a cup, and since we'd ordered food, refills were free. After consuming unhealthy amounts of coffee late in the evening, sleep was pretty unlikely, so we'd drop into the infamous Blue Moon Tavern for a couple of beers to dull the edge of the caffeine before heading off to our respective abodes. Doug was a pretty interesting and knowledgeable guy and we had lots of long conversations, discussing cabbages and kings and stuff and things. I can't remember where he worked, but he was a mathematician by trade. And he was intellectually very playful, into odd facts and mental experiments. He was the first person (actually, the only person) I knew who calculated the speed of light in furlongs per fortnight (225,315,820,800, give or take a cubit or two, as I recall). One of our many topics of conversation was etymology and the miscellaneous origins of words and phrases. "Trivia" was one of the words that came up. Doug's theory (I didn't have one) was that it was Latin, tri, meaning "three" and via, meaning "road." Somewhere near ancient Rome, Doug mused, three roads came together, and often travelers would meet there, pause in their journey, and swap news. Most of the news was of no great importance, often just odd bits of gossip, and such things as, "How are things out your way, Antonius?" Hence, "trivia" came to refer to "ephemeral or unimportant information." Interesting, but it sounds almost a little too pat to be true. Whatcha got, Slag? Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Mrs.Duck Date: 12 Aug 06 - 08:05 AM No, no a thousand times, no. I'd rather die than say yes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Slag Date: 12 Aug 06 - 01:16 AM Excellent Don Firth. Here's a tangential one. Without Googling or looking it up in the dictionary (this is really easy) where does the word "trivia" come from? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Old Guy Date: 11 Aug 06 - 11:13 PM Right on Dragline in Cool Hand Luke and A League Of Their Own. I remember a movie from when I was a kid. Now this was the early fifties. In it a merry go round runs amok and is spinning faster and faster. People are almost being flung off. Someone has to climb under it with the cranks and driveshafts whizzing real close to to them. They finally get to the motor and shut the damned thing off. It scarred the crap out of me at the time. What was the name of that movie? More quotes: Goodnight, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England. For uttering those contemptuous words in my presences, I'm goin' to have your balls in a sling. I know men younger than myself who take their pensions and put on stupid little white shirts with cut-off sleeves, alligator on the tit, and spend the rest of their days beating the hell out of a little white ball with an iron club. My God! The thought of it makes me want to puke. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Don Firth Date: 11 Aug 06 - 09:47 PM I've got a mind full of trivia, Slag. I just remembered it from your description. But both of the movies made quite an impression on me. Unusual, and very well done, considering when they were made. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: The Walrus Date: 11 Aug 06 - 06:56 PM "...and your suit is always white and your car is always clean! I hate you! You I hate! The Great Race "All right, we'll give some land to the niggers and the chinks, but we DON'T want the IRISH! Could it be that this is Blazing Saddles? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Slag Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:49 PM Thank you Don Firth! That movie has been on my mind ever since I saw it and no one until now has been able to tell me it's name. Thank you. How did you come up with it?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: fat B****rd Date: 11 Aug 06 - 02:51 PM Midchuck. "Arg Ack etc" Young Frankenstein. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Don Firth Date: 11 Aug 06 - 02:16 PM Bingo, Slag! The Man Who Could Work Miracles, and it was based on a novel by H. G. Wells. I saw it back in the Fifties on a double-bill with another movie, Things to Come, also based on the Wells novel, The Shape of Things to Come. A bit dated perhaps (both 1936), but they were terrific, thought-provoking movies. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: JennyO Date: 11 Aug 06 - 02:10 PM Never seen it Slag, but it sounds like it could be a Twilight Zone episode to me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Slag Date: 11 Aug 06 - 02:03 PM Hey Mudcatters, maybe you can help me on this one. When I was a kid in 1956 or 57 I saw a movie on TV and it is the only time I've ever seen it. I don't know it's name or who the actors were but I vividly remember the story. It opens with two greek looking god types superimposed against a starry background and one is telling the other to watch what happens. A giant ghostly finger comes down and touches a man as he is walking down the street. The man turns into a local tavern, is greeted in a way that lets you know that he is kind of the butt of the joke. In the course of events he makes a bar room wager that he can turn a lamp upside down without touching it and lo and behold, he does it! When he returns home he begins to explore his new powers and a really great sequence of slight-of-hand takes place. Things rock along with interpersonal relationships and prodigious application of absolute power until finally this guy is king of the world and is holding court in this open air Greco-Roman palace. I can't remember the conundrum that was at issue before him but a courtier points out that he doesn't have enough time, the sun is setting whereupon he decides that is no problem. He has the power to stop the Earth, Before the courtisan can explain the consequences of such an act he so orders it and everything goes flying off into space. With gasping desparation he wishes that everything could go back to before he had the power and suddenly the scene reverts to him walking down the street and turning into the bar. He makes his bet and nothing happens. The folks at the bar have a good laugh at his expense and the scene shifts back to the gods. The one says to the other, "See, it happens that way every time." It's really a much more interesting and entertaining movie than my poor, brief discription but I hope someone recognizes it and can lay a name to it. Thanks for your help! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Midchuck Date: 11 Aug 06 - 02:02 PM All right, we'll give some land to the niggers and the chinks, but we DON'T want the IRISH! ...and your suit is always white and your car is always clean! I hate you! You I hate! Argg!...Ack!....Oh.....Oh, sweet mystery of life, at last I've found yooooooooo.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Slag Date: 11 Aug 06 - 01:35 PM I know, Iknow!! It's 42! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: JennyO Date: 11 Aug 06 - 01:22 PM Wow, clueless don, you aren't like your name at all! That's really interesting! Having also seen and enjoyed the BBC version of the Hitchikers Guide a few times, I can't recall the face of the man on the train, but the voice? Yes, I think I can hear the similarity in the voices (in my mind that is - I seem to have been endowed with what I call a "tape recorder memory" - comes in handy sometimes!) Jenny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Bill D Date: 11 Aug 06 - 01:20 PM well, I can't figure out whether my "No!" post is being ignored, whether it has baffled everyone, or whether it was even recognized as an entry in the game. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: clueless don Date: 11 Aug 06 - 12:54 PM JennyO (09 Aug 06 - 08:35 AM) wrote, in part: It's A Hard Day's Night, and the quote is actually two people. Man on train: Don't take that tone with me young man. I fought the war for your sort. Ringo: I bet you're sorry you won. The actor who played "man on train" was Richard Vernon (he passed away recently, I believe.) He played any number of fine roles, but for many of us his definitive role was Slartibartfast in the BBC version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Dave Swan Date: 11 Aug 06 - 12:29 PM Peter T. poses "You'll have to do the thinking for both of us." which is from Casablanca. "If your brains were made of dynamite you couldn't blow your nose." is another quote from the movie I've been on about through this thread. Still no takers?\\D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: fat B****rd Date: 11 Aug 06 - 11:45 AM "My lord, don't strike me blind etc" Dragline (Geroge Kennedy)in Cool Hand Luke. Worrabout my last one ? This is my reminder not a quote. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: JennyO Date: 11 Aug 06 - 11:40 AM Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: JennyO - PM Date: 09 Aug 06 - 07:45 AM "Listen to them, my children of the night, what music they make!" Dracula - Bela Lugosi Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Becca72 - PM Date: 11 Aug 06 - 10:21 AM "Listen to them, my children of the night, what music they make!" Bram Stoker's Dracula Okay, Peter T, which of us is right? I think it's the old Dracula movie. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Becca72 Date: 11 Aug 06 - 10:21 AM "Listen to them, my children of the night, what music they make!" Bram Stoker's Dracula "Are you crying? There's no crying in Baseball!" A League of Their Own |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Old Guy Date: 11 Aug 06 - 08:51 AM We're not just going to shoot the bastards we're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun bastards by the bushel. I don't care if it rains or freezes Long as I've got my Plastic Jesus Ridin' on the dashboard of my car. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: JennyO Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:21 AM "The Day the Earth Stood Still" - a classic! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Slag Date: 11 Aug 06 - 01:24 AM Easy one: "Gort, Klaatu barrata nikto" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Old Guy Date: 10 Aug 06 - 11:36 PM Right on lost in space. My Lord, whatever I done, don't strike me blind for another couple of minutes. You talking to me? I am completely untrustworthy... I'm a flibbertigibbet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: webfolk Date: 10 Aug 06 - 12:12 PM no, not Ghost, I think you'll find Ghost on general release in the DVD section. Try early to mid 80's Geoff |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Wesley S Date: 10 Aug 06 - 11:58 AM It's not "Ghost" is it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: webfolk Date: 10 Aug 06 - 11:52 AM Still no one's had a go at ... "I keep thinking I see you, it's the darndest thing" and more importantly, why has the film never yet been officially released on DVD? Geoff |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Wesley S Date: 10 Aug 06 - 11:46 AM Does anyone know if John Wayne really said "A mans gotta do what a man's gotta do" ?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: The Walrus Date: 10 Aug 06 - 11:40 AM "...Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!..." (Accompanied by wild thrashing of the arms) - 'sgotta be "Lost in Space" (but i remember it more from the TV than the cinema |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Old Guy Date: 10 Aug 06 - 09:14 AM Right on Raiders of the lost ark and Gangs of New York, Are you crying? There's no crying in Baseball! Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson! Sorry miss, I was giving myself an oil-job. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: The Walrus Date: 09 Aug 06 - 05:41 PM "...No. Twas Beauty who killed the Beast..." That sounds very like "King Kong" W |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Peter T. Date: 09 Aug 06 - 05:19 PM "Will you explain all this when the opportunity presents itself?" "This ought to take the sting out of being occupied." "I thought I heard voices." "If I do what you want, will you love me?" "Did you ever think it was going to be so hard to get rid of a pain in the ass like me? --Ma'am, I had no idea." yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Don Firth Date: 09 Aug 06 - 04:09 PM Here ya go, SINSULL. Clicky. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: SINSULL Date: 09 Aug 06 - 03:35 PM No. Twas Beauty who killed the Beast. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Bill D Date: 09 Aug 06 - 01:26 PM my post..."No!" was a request for an ID....one of the cleverest lines in all filmdom. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Don Firth Date: 09 Aug 06 - 12:54 PM Since nobody popped on one I posted wa-a-a-a-a-ay back up there, "Oh, my God! Oh, my God, are you telling me you're pregnant?" is a line from the 1985 science fiction movie "Enemy Mine." War between Earth and the "Dracs," an alien reptilian species. Dennis Quaid crash-lands his damaged ship on a habitable but hostile planet, only to discover that a Drac pilot (Lou Gossett, Jr.) has also crash-landed there. They start out trying to do each other in, then discover that if either of them is to survive at all, they're going to have to depend on each other. The Drac reproduce asexually, and when the two erstwhile enemies take shelter in a cave, the human discovers that the Drac is "budding." The Drac dies and the human adopts the strange offspring, which leads to some heavy-duty plot complications, and eventually a truce in the interplanetary hostilities. It wasn't the greatest science fiction movie I've ever seen, and some folks have said that they thought it really sucked, but I thought it was pretty good. Interesting twists and good performances. And even bad science fiction is better than none. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: JennyO Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:37 AM Oops - didn't see your post till after I posted, The Walrus. With a handle like that, does that make you a Beatles fan? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: JennyO Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:35 AM "I fought the war for your sort -- Bet you're sorry you won." Now this one's more my era. I saw this movie seven times! At one time I could have practically quoted the whole script! It's A Hard Day's Night, and the quote is actually two people. Man on train: Don't take that tone with me young man. I fought the war for your sort. Ringo: I bet you're sorry you won. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: The Walrus Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:29 AM "I fought the war for your sort -- Bet you're sorry you won." I've got a feeling this is from Hard Day's Night - In my hear I hear these lines delivered by Wilfred Bramble and John Lennon W |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: JennyO Date: 09 Aug 06 - 07:52 AM "Madame, this is a restaurant, not a meadow." Ninotchka - Greta Garbo Boy, we really are getting into the OLD movies, eh! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: JennyO Date: 09 Aug 06 - 07:45 AM "Listen to them, my children of the night, what music they make!" Dracula - Bela Lugosi |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Peter T. Date: 09 Aug 06 - 07:31 AM "Madame, this is a restaurant, not a meadow." "You'll have to do the thinking for both of us." "Listen to them, my children of the night, what music they make!" "'If all the people who loved each other lived together, the world would shine like the sun." "I fought the war for your sort -- Bet you're sorry you won." "You know what's wrong with you? -- nothing." yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Name The Movie From: Slag Date: 09 Aug 06 - 02:27 AM "teach it phenomenology" ? |
