# Challenge us with a non-famous line from a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 2, 2022, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142 "2022-04-02T06:07:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 150
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2985 "2024-02-24T21:13:37Z")
_ **The Red Danube** _? ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2986 "2024-02-24T21:54:27Z")
No, but those are all really good guesses, and you know films! I think I picked a movie that is too obscure. The Golden Age A-list actress who stars in it is Lana Turner. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2987 "2024-02-24T21:59:28Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > It is from _The Warriors_. > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsslG1XfHpM&](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsslG1XfHpM&)\* Isn’t the attitude toward weapons in that movie quaint? Knives: expected. One handgun: shocking! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2988 "2024-02-24T22:17:55Z")
I must admit that I didn’t look up the line (which would really be cheating), but I did do a search for movies with a Mother Superior between 1940 and 1958. _ **The Red Danube** _ matched your description on two other points: Ethel Barrymore and Dame Angela “Jessica Fletcher” Lansbury. The only movie with severe weather effects I could think of was _ **Strange Cargo** _ with Clark Gable (1940), but the female lead in that one was Joan Crawford, and as far as I recall there was no Mother Superior… ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2989 "2024-02-24T22:31:37Z")
Hmm. Very surprised it did not come up-- its weather effects were gold standard until CGI. Dame May Whitty is the Mother Superior, and is billed as “Dame.” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2990 "2024-02-24T22:37:53Z")
> “Out of order? FUCK! Even in the future, nothing works!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2991 "2024-02-24T22:47:22Z")
This must be it then. Can’t say I’ve ever heard of it, though. > **[Green Dolphin Street (1947) ⭐ 6.8 | Adventure, Drama, Romance](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039437/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_5_act)** > > 2h 21m | Approved Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Owens, and Frank Morgan were, of course all in Christmas-themed movies. And Donna Reed got her own TV series in the '60s. > [https://youtu.be/Wt7UYKepRLU](https://youtu.be/Wt7UYKepRLU) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2992 "2024-02-24T22:51:50Z")
That’s it! I saw it when I was about 11 the first time, and could suspend disbelief for anything-- totally sucked into it. But I’ve seen it a few times since, and I always enjoy it. Helluva cast ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2993 "2024-02-24T22:58:53Z")
The way things go for me, it’ll probably be on late-night TV soon, now that I know about it. (I don’t get many movie channels any more; too expensive. 😠 ) _ **Foreign Correspondent** _ with Edmund Gwenn just came on Silver Screen. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2994 "2024-02-24T23:52:02Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > it’ll probably be on late-night TV soon That’s where I saw it first, probably at 1, 2 or 3am, when I was in middle school. I fell in love with Hollywood’s Golden Age when I was about 9, and every Saturday, when the newspaper came with a TV schedule for the following week, I got a red pencil, and scanned down the movie list for anything-- **anything** from the 30s or 40s and circled it. If it was labeled Mystery, Suspense, Horror, Sci-Fi or Thriller, I put a star by it. If it starred an actor I liked, I put either one or two stars. Lana Turner was on my 1-star list. I also stopped and read about the films from the 1950s. Some of them I’d circle. I circled _A Streetcar Named Desire_, just because it had Vivien Leigh. I’d read about the 60s films, but didn’t circle many-- I did manage to see _The Chalk Garden_, _The Miracle Worker_, and _The Lion in Winter_ that way. I remember _Gaslight_ being a 3-star movie, a Mystery with Ingrid Bergman. Had never heard of it, though. But, wow. Wasn’t as much fun as those once-in-a-lifetime late nights when I was a kid, but when VHS glutted the market with just about everything in public domain, I binge-watched. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2995 "2024-02-25T01:55:16Z")
LOL I did like the movie when I was a teenager, but none of those gang guys looked anything like what I imagined NY city gang members would look like. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2996 "2024-02-25T02:08:25Z")
“Everyone has somebody that they want to put out of the way. Oh now surely, Madam, you’re not going to tell me that there hasn’t been a time that you didn’t want to dispose of someone. Your husband, for instance?” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2997 "2024-02-25T02:10:34Z")
I had seen most of the movies I know today by the time I was in high school. Throughout the '60s and into the '70s, broadcast TV was still showing ones dating back to the first talkies of the '20s. I remember staying up past three in the morning on weekends to watch stuff like Charlie Chan, The Three Stooges, and Laurel and Hardy. Classics like _ **Casablanca** _, _ **Captain from Castille** _, _ **The Treasure of the Sierra Madre** _, and _ **Quo Vadis?** _ were always on in the afternoon and evening. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2998 "2024-02-25T02:15:57Z")
I can hear the voice of George Sanders saying this. It’s not from _ **A Shot in the Dark** _, is it? ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/2999 "2024-02-25T02:17:02Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > It’s not from _ **A Shot in the Dark** _, is it? Nope. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3000 "2024-02-25T02:19:09Z")
_ **Double Indemnity** _ would be my second guess, but I don’t recall Walter addressing Phyllis as “Madam.” ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3001 "2024-02-25T02:21:10Z")
It does sound very much like something Walter would say, but I’m afraid not. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3002 "2024-02-25T02:24:12Z")
Claude Rains as the Devil in _ **Angel on My Shoulder** _? ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3003 "2024-02-25T02:28:20Z")
Nope again. I’ll narrow it down a little bit: the speaker is not English. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3004 "2024-02-25T02:29:26Z")
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