# Challenge us with a non-famous line from a movie

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3565 "2024-07-20T04:15:18Z")

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Not that one. I could give a bunch of other quotes, but many of them have part of the title in them.

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**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:** [July 20, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3566 "2024-07-20T04:15:46Z")

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_ **Hot Blood** _?

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3567 "2024-07-20T04:21:32Z")

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No. I so want you to get it.

Hint: It’s an old b&w one.

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**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:** [July 20, 2024, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3568 "2024-07-20T05:06:00Z")

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Is Cary Grant in it?

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3569 "2024-07-20T05:19:59Z")

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No, no Cary.

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3570 "2024-07-20T05:29:08Z")

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Ralph Bellamy is in it.

Also, two of my favorite actors from the W.A.B.A.C. machine. It would be a “dead” giveaway if I named them.

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3571 "2024-07-21T01:11:21Z")

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So far…

“That’s what she said. The gypsy woman.”

“For a thousand years, we Gypsies have buried our dead like that. I couldn’t break the custom even if I wanted to.”

New one. Said by the gypsy…

“Your suffering is over, Bela my son. Now you will find peace.”

This movie would be a good “one to watch” tonight.

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3572 "2024-07-21T04:19:43Z")

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Is it _The Wolf Man_?

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3573 "2024-07-21T05:17:12Z")

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Yes! It is _ **The Wolf Man** _.

Full moon tonight.

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3574 "2024-07-21T06:19:28Z")

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Gotta be honest … I’ve never seen it. Context clues.

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3575 "2024-07-22T01:54:44Z")

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Wow. I love the old (really old) scary movies from when I was a kid.

Check out the cast…

> **[The Wolf Man (1941 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_Man_(1941_film))**
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> The Wolf Man is a 1941 American gothic horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner. The film stars Lon Chaney Jr. in the title role. Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, and Maria Ouspenskaya star in supporting roles. The title character has had a great deal of influence on Hollywood's depictions of the legend of the werewolf. The film is the second Universal Pictures werewolf film, preceded six years earli Af...

Lon Chaney is the wolf man.

> **[Lon Chaney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney)**
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> Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American actor and makeup artist. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of cinema, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted, characters and for his groundbreaking artistry with makeup. Chaney was known for his starring roles in such silent horror films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). His ability to transform himself using

From the article, “His ability to transform himself using makeup techniques that he developed earned him the nickname **The Man of a Thousand Faces**.”

It may also have had to do with the fact that both his parents were deaf and he was skilled in American Sign Language (ASL).

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**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:** [July 22, 2024, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3576 "2024-07-22T11:29:56Z")

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Never in a million years would I have gotten it. ☹

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3577 "2024-07-22T17:01:31Z")

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I thought with the Horror Movie thread that’s popular right now, the gypsy and her son “Bela” someone would get it.

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3578 "2024-07-22T17:47:38Z")

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New one…

“I will not be threatened by a walking meatloaf!”

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**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3579 "2024-07-22T19:37:20Z")

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American Werewolf in London?

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3580 "2024-07-22T19:51:06Z")

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Yes. He was referring to his friend Jack who had become a werewolf.

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3581 "2024-07-22T19:54:43Z")

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Jack did get it. Jack Batty, not the walking meatloaf.

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3582 "2024-07-22T20:00:31Z")

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I loved _ **An American Werewolf In London** _.

Jack kept coming back looking worse and worse. I think, at one point, chunks of his face were falling off when he was talking to David.

> **[Why Jack Goodman Is a Better Boyfriend Dead Than Your Boyfriend Is Alive -...](https://film-cred.com/an-american-werewolf-in-london-jack-goodman/)**
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> Jack Goodman from 'An American Werewolf in London' may be dead, but he’s a real dream date.

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**Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3583 "2024-07-25T00:59:15Z")

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This probably won’t last, but I love this line.

‘And, begging your pardon sir, it’s a big ass sky.’

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**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-us-with-a-non-famous-line-from-a-movie/962142/3584 "2024-07-25T01:49:59Z")

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“If it’s a severed head, I’m going to be very upset.”

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