# Identify this Movie From a Vague Description (Yet Again!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871 "2003-02-18T13:39:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/21 "2003-02-20T01:29:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HeyHomie \* > There is one scene where the Bad Guy has captured the Good Guy and is planning to torture him to death. He has him tied up and, holding a red-hot poker close to him, says (paraphrased): “I’m now going to do something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time-- kill you very slowly and very painfully.” The Good Guy somehow escapes. Mysterious seer lady drifts in and squirts BG’s Henchmen with Silly String. > [@](#): > > Another scene: the Good Guy captures one of the Bad Guy’s men and, in essence, forces him to kill himself. He ties him to the ground under a tree and slings a heavy sledgehammer over a branch with a rope, so that the hammer hangs a few feet over the guy’s abdomen. He then makes the guy secure the rope in his teeth. Thus, when he gets too fatigued to hold it, he lets go and the hammer falls down and kills him. You can guess what happens. Actually, he is not fatigued, he is just too prone to hurling insults. Bernard Bresslaw : “HA!, now let us see you hurl insults, hohoho!” Mouthy Slave Trader : [hurls insults]“Aaaaaiiiiii!!!” OFF CAMERA DULL THUD Bernard Bresslaw “Some people just don’t know when to keep their mouths shut.” Good Guys : “Hohoho”. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/22 "2003-02-20T03:48:18Z")
How about this: Fake Crime Spree How Did It End? Rizzo’s Town Poor Ralph Bellamy Loving an Astronaut Mr. Van Doren’s A Cheat ---
**Author:** ![Fibber\_McGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a6a055/32.png) [@Fibber\_McGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibber_McGee)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/23 "2003-02-20T04:09:49Z")
How Did It End? - Clue? Rizzo’s Town - Midnight Cowboy? ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/24 "2003-02-20T04:46:41Z")
Mr. Van Doren’s A Cheat: Quiz Show? Poor Ralph Bellamy: Trading Places? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/25 "2003-02-20T13:57:54Z")
Fibber: Wrong on both counts. Frankd6, right on both counts. (Hint: My clues might not deal with content in the movie, but rahter with information in the movie or the movie’s title.) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/26 "2003-02-20T20:26:56Z")
Nothing in common among these: Goofy Musicians at a 1910 Firehouse John Wayne’s Circus Catches Fire At Which End Shall We Cut Our Eggs Open? Then, Dan Conner; Now, George Herman Ruth Is That You, Norman? Ugly Women as Saxophonist and Bass Player Traitor Betrayed by Time Zones Fighting the Blue-hued Cave Dwellers The Ape Didn’t Want to Be in America The English Sheeppig The Van Doren Embarrassment ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/27 "2003-02-20T20:36:08Z")
Goofy Musicians…: Ragtime? Then, Dan Conner…: The Babe Is That You, Norman?: Psycho Ugly Women as Saxophonist…: Some Like it Hot The Ape…: King Kong The English Sheeppig: Babe How 'bout: The Singing Austrian Kids A Baby Deer’s Mother Gets Shot The Big Farkin’ Shark What Eats People! Wanderin’ the Earth Like Cain (from Kung Fu) The Kayser Soze Story Hey! That Janitor’s a Genius! I’m Not Even Supposed to BE Here Today. Bareknuckle Schizoid ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/28 "2003-02-20T20:56:53Z")
The Singing Austrian Kids- Sound of music A Baby Deer’s Mother Gets Shot - Bambi The Big Farkin’ Shark What Eats People! - Jaws Hey! That Janitor’s a Genius! - flowers for algernon (or Lawnmower man) ---
**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/29 "2003-02-20T21:59:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BioHazard \* > \*\*Hey! That Janitor’s a Genius! - flowers for algernon (or Lawnmower man) \*\* [Nitpick]Not _Lawnmower Man_. Jobe mowed lawns (hence the title); he wasn’t a janitor.[/Nitpick] Now _Good Will Hunting_ on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/30 "2003-02-20T22:01:13Z")
Doh!!! ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/31 "2003-02-20T22:01:26Z")
Doh!!! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/32 "2003-02-20T22:03:11Z")
How THE F\*\*\* did I pull that simulpost off? ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/33 "2003-02-20T22:19:54Z")
The Kayser Soze Story - The Usual Suspects (one of my all time favs!) Bareknuckle Schizoid - Fight Club? ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/34 "2003-02-20T22:59:42Z")
Pretty much all right. “Janitor” is Good Will Hunting. The rest of the answers to mine are correct. Surprised that nobody has gotten “Wanderin’ the Earth Like Cain (from Kung Fu)” , which I thought was pretty easy or “I’m Not Even…” which is only slightly more obscure. I feel kinda guilty about the hijack, so I’ve started a new thread [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=164501) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871/35 "2003-02-21T22:44:13Z")
Here are the correct titles, for those who guessed wrong: 😃 😛 Goofy Musicians at a 1910 Firehouse–_Fireman, Save My Child!_ At Which End Shall We Cut Our Eggs Open?–_Gulliver’s Travels_ Traitor Betrayed by Time Zones–_Stalag 17_ Fighting the Blue-hued Cave Dwellers–_Time Machine_ The Ape Didn’t Want to Be in America–_Mighty Joe Young_ (my choice) 🙂 The Van Doren Embarrassment–_Quiz Show_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-from-a-vague-description-yet-again/155871.md?page=1)