Monty Woolley as Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came To Dinner
Well done!
I didn’t expect anyone to get that so quickly. For some reason, his silly delivery of that silly song popped into my head yesterday, and it took me a few minutes to remember where it was from. I hoped it was obscure enough that I might stump you all for a few days, at least.
Whereas my last clue, from The Maltese Falcon, stumped everyone for months.
The instant I read it, I saw a vision of Monty Woolley’s face, screwed up into a sinister sneer as he triumphed over some mean trick that he pulled. He was great in that movie.
How about this one?
“So you love alone?”
“I used to have a roommate, but my mom moved to Florida.”
“We’ve got chicken tonight! Strangest damn things. They’re man-made! Little damn things! Smaller than my fist! But they’re new!”
Eraserhead
I drove through a snowstorm to see that film, which I’d read about, and long before David Lynch’s more famous films were made. I’m still trying to figure out if it was worth it.
A discussion I had with my husband made me think of this thread. I was mistaking a singer for an actor and I told him, “You know– he was in that movie– All the way with a red hot poker.
The movie is not named All The Way with a Red Hot Poker. My husband guessed the movie and that I was conflatulading (I’m old and allowed to make up words) the actor with the singer. Anyway. . .
“All the way with a red hot poker”.
Correct.
It was worth it.
One on One starring Robby Benson.
Correct.
“Manganese. A lot of people don’t even know what that is.”
Caddyshack
That’s it.
“It’s got a few years, but it’s a cream puff.”
“Don’t Know. Never Been Attacked By Tree.”
Karate Kid 2
Used Cars, if I had to venture a guess.
I don’t know if Used Cars had a similar quote, but mine is from a different movie.
Scarface, the newer one with Al Pacino?
“We’re all out of cornflakes, F.U.”
The Odd Couple
Oscar is quoting a note that Felix left in the kitchen. It goes on “I looked at that note for twenty minutes before I realized that “FU” was “Felix Unger””
I love this line. One of my roommates claimed that it was a throwaway line that Neil Simon came up with on the spur of the moment. But it isn’t. Simon refers to a character named “Felix Unger” in his second big play, Come Blow your Horn (although he never appears onstage), so I think he was fooling with the idea of a character whose initials were “F.U” for a while. (There was no “FU” gag in Come Blow your Horn, though).