“And I submit, Inspector Ballon, that you arrived home, found Miguel with Maria Gambrelli, and killed him in a rit of fealous jage!”
“Hi, Lloyd. Little slow tonight, isn’t it?”
Jack Nicholson to Joe Turkel in The Shining
Yes. That’s the line I use when I go into some business and I’m the only customer there. No one has recognized it, yet.
I really thought someone would get the other quote first.
I slept with everybody. My school teacher, my sister’s husband, the string section of the New York Philharmonic.
Peter Sellers as Inspecteur Clouseau in A Shot in the Dark.
Yep. It’s easy to remember that it’s from one of the Pink Panther movies, but I don’t always remember which is which. The names were a bit of a giveaway.
Strictly speaking, it had nothing to do with the Pink Panther. That’s why I was surprised when I learned in what order the first two movies were filmed. I saw ASitD in 1964 and TPP three years later. I always assumed the latter was a sequel, since Clouseau was married and sentenced to prison at the end.
It wasn’t until 1976 that I saw The Pink Panther Returns.
Yeah, the actual Pink Panther was a diamond, the theft of which was investigated by Inspector Clouseau, but became so identified with the character that it became the name of the franchise. I don’t think it’s completely ridiculous to say that A Shot in the Dark is part of the Pink Panther series, even if it’s not in the title.
A similar thing happened with The Thin Man.
A Shot in the Dark was an odd film to be a sequel to The Pink Panther. It started out as a stage play that had nothing to do with Clouseau, and was, in turn, adapted from a French play. They rewrote it to be a sequel to The Pink Panther. Oddly, Peter Sellers was supposed to star in the original, non-Clouseau film, but didn’t like the script. It was Blake Edwards who turned it into a Clouseau film.
For ASitD to be a proper sequel, Clouseau would have had to be pardoned, reinstated, and divorced so he could pursue Elke Sommer. None of this was even mentioned. This is why I wouldn’t recommend seeing the first two movies in the order they were filmed. Some might find it confusing.
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Bumping this one from yesterday. And here’s a new contribution.
“Tell [your mother] she’s not gaining a daughter; she’s getting rid of a son!”
“…She says yes.”
“She has good taste.”
“I … I have always had an abnormal fear of rats. That’s why I couldn’t stand up to that … rat thing.”
and
“The creature we saw was a member of the rodent family.”
and
“Give me your minds, your innermost thoughts. You are powerless. I shall drain your minds and bend your will to mine. You will submit, and I shall possess you.”
Journey to the Seventh Planet, a classic!
Tell me about it…stud.
A: “What does a girl have to do to go to bed with you?”
B: “Try knocking on the door.”
Grease (1978)
Yep, in memory of ONJ.
Two quotes, two movies.
“The first to catch his pig and bring it here is the winner.”
“What do you know? Somebody left his watch lying around. I might as well have a souvenir. Not a bad-looking watch at that.”
The Caine Mutiny.
A Boy and His Dog?