# Game: Guess the movie by it's tagline. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993 "2001-10-07T21:50:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/101 "2001-10-13T20:19:47Z")
“Movie? What movie?” ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/102 "2001-10-15T01:31:28Z")
bump ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Defense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Civil\_Defense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Defense)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/103 "2001-10-15T02:39:05Z")
Just a WAG… Stay Tuned? ---
**Author:** ![Spoonbender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spoonbender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoonbender)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/104 "2001-10-15T23:52:53Z")
Looks like people are stumped, **thinksnow** …how about a hint? ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/105 "2001-10-16T00:12:27Z")
It’s a _secret!_ ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/106 "2001-10-16T04:21:51Z")
Well, jeez, **thinksnow** , if you don’t _want_ to give a hint, then don’t bother to post. Oh, and here’s a guess: is it _Top Secret_? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/107 "2001-10-16T04:33:44Z")
Ok, thanks for the huge hint, Thinksnow. (I checked in IMDB) Ironically I was telling a coworker about that film today and it still didn’t click. Here’s my fave tagline from _Top Secret_: > [@](#): > > It’s not the first movie about a guy who fell in love with a woman that he met at a restaurant who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist only to lose her to her childhood lover whom she last saw on a deserted island who then turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French Underground. Ok, here’s the **next one** : The Greatest Picture in the History of Entertainment ---
**Author:** ![Diesel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Diesel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diesel)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/108 "2001-10-16T04:57:11Z")
History of the World Part 1? ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/109 "2001-10-16T11:43:55Z")
D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation”? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/110 "2001-10-16T12:49:29Z")
**Diesel** : no. **Neidhart** : no. ---
**Author:** ![yastobaal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/258eb7/32.png) [@yastobaal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yastobaal)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/111 "2001-10-16T13:33:37Z")
Ben-Hur? Sparticus? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/112 "2001-10-16T14:58:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yastobaal \* > \*\*Ben-Hur? > Sparticus? \*\* No and no. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/113 "2001-10-16T15:05:58Z")
That’s Entertainment ? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/114 "2001-10-16T15:10:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by detop \* > \*\*That’s Entertainment ? \*\* No. I can see we’re going to struggle with this one for a while. ::rubs hands in glee:: [sub]::wipes hands on pants trying to get the ‘glee’ off::[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Elvis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Elvis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvis)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/115 "2001-10-16T15:18:00Z")
Ooh, ooh! It’s “The Wizard of Oz”! Next: “Never Before Has A Man Done So Much With So Little.” ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/116 "2001-10-16T15:20:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Elvis \* > \*\*Ooh, ooh! It’s “The Wizard of Oz”! > > Next: > > “Never Before Has A Man Done So Much With So Little.” \*\* Dagnabit! I hadn’t even gottne the ‘glee’ off my hands yet! Good job. Your new one wouldn’t be _Forrest Gump_ would it? Back up SWAG: _The Hudsucker Proxy_. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/117 "2001-10-16T20:23:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Elvis \* > \*\*Ooh, ooh! It’s “The Wizard of Oz”! > > Next: > > “Never Before Has A Man Done So Much With So Little.” \*\* It’s not the Wizard of Oz. And even if it was that would be against the rules. No movies before 1960, remember? ---
**Author:** ![Elvis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Elvis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvis)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/118 "2001-10-16T20:35:48Z")
Shib seems to think it was Wizard of Oz, and Shib posted it…I agree, though, that the OP called for movies after 1960. So what’s the correct answer, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/119 "2001-10-16T20:57:23Z")
Ahhh, now that I go back and look at it, the OP called for movies after 196 **5** , not 1960. Anyway, I’m stumped with this one, I have no idea what it is. It seems like a comedy, and it smells like Mel Brooks but I just happened to coincidentally for no reason related to this thread whatsoever look through every Mel Brooks movie last night and it’s not one of them :D. I guess we’ll have to wait until **thinksnow** feels jovial enough to give us a hint. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2001, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993/120 "2001-10-16T21:07:08Z")
Sorry, it was the Wizard of Oz, I did read the OP, but this game started so long ago that it kind of blurred out of my incredibly inefficient short term memory. Anyway, it was answered correctly so I’ll just slink off here and then we can continue from the most recent tagline which has not been answered. And if I get another one correct I will stay in the last 36 years. Sorry for the trouble and confusion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-guess-the-movie-by-its-tagline/85993.md?page=7)