Challenge us with a non-famous line from a movie

Patton?

That’s the one. In a movie with so many big scenes and characters, that’s almost a throwaway moment, so I thought it might have gone unnoticed.

Slap Shot

Time to come back in and provide some answers to my quotes that haven’t been solved (or had the answer posted by me, I think I may be going for a record for those)

Swashbuckler (1976), spoken by Robert Shaw as the pirate captain, Red Ned Lynch

The second quote I’ve posted from The Palm Beach Story (1942), a Preston Sturges screwball comedy.

Mr. Right (2015) An ultraviolent action comedy starring Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick, with the quoted line capping a faceoff between Anna Kendrick’s character and the chief villain trying to murderize her.

“Parliament hath not the authority.”

“I’m willing to pay anything — beyond reason, of course.”

The Madness of King George ?

A Man for All Seasons.

Since no one has guessed this since it was posted in April, the answer is Se7en. This is the first exchange between Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow when Morgan Freeman comes to their apartment for dinner.

That’s it! Spoken by both Paul Scofield and John Hurt, IIRC. Well done! :+1:

Good guess, but no, SFAIK. :slightly_frowning_face:

From memory:

“Ah, what little family doesn’t have its ups and downs?”

I think it’s only Richard Rich (Hurt) who says it, claiming he’s quoting More (Scofield). But you misquoted slightly. It’s, “He said, ‘Parliament had not the competence.’”

Here’s the scene.

One of my favorite lines in the film is the final one in that clip: More learns that RIch has been made attorney general for Wales, and says, “Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Wales?”

“Mediocrities everywhere…I absolve you…I absolve you…I absolve you all.”

Amadeus.

(I knew I knew it, and was trying to dredge it up from my so-called brain. When I read it to my wife, she remembered instantly.)

Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn) in The Lion in Winter.

I might have had a harder time with this one if you hadn’t quoted *A Man for All Seasons" immediately before. I’ve seen both at least a dozen times, many of those in repertory theaters. (BTW, she doesn’t say “little.”)

I know what you mean. I saw them back-to-back at a small theater in MPS/StP during the winter of '77–'78. My favorite line in Lion comes when Peter O’Toole leans back in his chair, puts his feet up on a table, and says “My God, I love being King!”

Not bad after almost 50 years, eh? Though I was sure she said “little” in either the first or second half of the sentence.

I once bet a girlfriend and fellow film-lover that it was Peter O’Toole and not Richard Harris who played Henry II, but we broke up before I could collect. She still owes me a large pepperoni pizza and a half-gallon of Cherry Coke.

Yes it is. Love the movie and that final scene.

Tremors 3: Back to Perfection

“It has to be damp.”

“I’s jes’ a little wabbit in the sunshine…”