That’s it! Spoken by Burgess Meredith as Ammon.
That he was. But he wasn’t the one who said this phrase; it was Fred Clark as Waldo Brewster, saying it to Betty Grable. He was griping about his wife’s relatives coming to New York and wanting to see a show. And he was being a bit of a jerk.
“Stuff my orders! I only kill professionals. That girl didn’t know one end of her rifle from the other.”
Is it too early to answer this? I think I will leave a spoiler blur for others to have a chance!
The Living Daylights
Correct.
“So tell me, my man… you nervous in the service?”
Hmmm. IMDb says otherwise:
- J.D. Hanley: There’s quite a party of us up from Texas.
- Schatze Page: All men?
- J.D. Hanley: Oh, some wives too. You met some of them this evening. The others went to a show. You know how the women are when they get to New York.
- Schatze Page: I know.
JD Hanley was none other than William Powell, and Schatze Page was Lauren Bacall.
“Bring a sponge.”
Is there a defenestration involved here?
You’re right and I’m totally misremembering the characters who spoke.
It happens. I just had to dissuade my daughter that Cary Grant was in Bringing Up Baby, not Gregory Peck.
At first, I thought it might have been Spencer Tracy because of, you know, Katharine Hepburn being in it too.
For mine? Not that I can think of.
Okay, though I do suspect a messy death.
Curdled, maybe?
Not Curdled.
What did you think the defenestration was? I don’t remember the entire scene; maybe that is the movie I’m thinking of.
I remember a line from a film where someone either fell/was pushed out a window or off a ledge, and you’d need a sponge to pick them up. But I can’t think of the specific movie.
Curdled has lots of blood that needs to be cleaned up, but I think all the action takes place indoors.
Forrest Gump, maybe?
No, nothing like that. The answer will make sense when you read the whole scene.
Prague once had a defenestration.
“You need a wife for tonight, just tell me. I’ll set it up.”
No, it wasn’t set in Prague. It was an American noir, IIRC.