# Can anyone identify this movie by my VERY vague description? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2002, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113 "2002-12-03T02:00:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/1 "2002-12-03T02:00:41Z")
I saw a movie a while back, and I wish I could remember what it was called. I only remember one part. There are some guys in a car, and one guy is about dead. So they stop, and one guy grabs the dying guy (they were friends, so someone else must have shot him) and dumps his body in this drain thing in the street. The dying guy had brown hair and a goatee. Thats all I can remember! Does anyone know what movie I am talking about? I realize this is incredibly vague and could possibly apply to more than one movie. ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/2 "2002-12-03T03:42:40Z")
I sure hope you’re not having one of those acid flashbacks they told us about in the 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/3 "2002-12-03T03:46:34Z")
Pretty sure thats “The Sound of Music” your talking about there… ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/4 "2002-12-03T04:18:37Z")
NO!! It couldn’t have been less than 3 years ago that I saw it. I know what I’m talking about! I told you it was vague… ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/5 "2002-12-03T05:19:02Z")
Sounds like an outtake from Reservoir Dogs. But that isn’t it, I’m pretty sure. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/6 "2002-12-03T05:23:16Z")
it was Clint Eastwood and Jeff bridges **Thunderbolt and Lightfoot** 1974 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/7 "2002-12-03T05:26:22Z")
Lightfoot, Bridges, always wanted to ride in a white Cadallic convertible that he paid cash for right out of the show room. In whatever heist they pulled, he injured his head somehow. Clint was Thunderbolt and he honored his dying friend’s wish. Then LF died, TB dumped him in a river, and went away with all the money good movie ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/8 "2002-12-03T05:27:35Z")
Ooops! SPOILERS ABOVE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/9 "2002-12-03T08:25:28Z")
A little late there, **NoClueBoy**. And may I say how apt your user name is? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/10 "2002-12-03T21:52:48Z")
Yeah, that’s why I chose that username. Works in relationships, too. Besides, **Blink** kinda spoilered it anyways in the OP, but I gotta stop posting late at night after a couple of shots. Still, it’s a great movie. Even George Kennedy is good in it, and that’s saying something! Oh, well… (see? I do know _how_ to do it.) ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/11 "2002-12-03T22:20:51Z")
I don’t think that is it. Because I know they threw him in a drain thing in the street (like the kind with a metal grate over it), not a river, and im pretty sure it was a black car. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/12 "2002-12-03T22:28:16Z")
Wow, I wonder how many times that kind of ending has been used in a movie? I don’t know how you would word the search, but try [here](http://us.imdb.com/). ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/13 "2002-12-03T23:15:24Z")
Could it be **Blood Simple**? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/14 "2002-12-04T05:12:33Z")
Nobody gets thrown in a drain or a river in _Blood Simple_. Somebody gets buried in a field though. ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-movie-by-my-very-vague-description/140113/15 "2002-12-04T05:48:26Z")
I was thinking of the sequence before the burial in **Blood Simple**. It’s been a while since I saw the movie, the guy being half dead is what made me think of it.