# Movie help please **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327 "2016-04-16T02:57:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/1 "2016-04-16T02:57:46Z")
Old lady in a car wondering just who did shoot the deputy. I suspect I’ll have an answer in about 15 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/2 "2016-04-16T03:34:02Z")
Would u believe 15 minutes? ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/3 "2016-04-16T03:44:19Z")
This is driving me nuts. The song was playing over an hour ago and it got me wondering about this scene so I asked my fiance and he can’t remember either. My sister said Drowning Mona but neither of us has seen that and we both know we’ve scene the movie this scene is from. I say it was a batty old woman in a car on the way to a funeral. He says it was a batty old woman in a car on a way to a funeral with her granddaughter. Other than that, we’ve both got nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/4 "2016-04-16T03:48:40Z")
> [@congodwarf](#): > > This is driving me nuts. The song was playing over an hour ago and it got me wondering about this scene so I asked my fiance and he can’t remember either. My sister said Drowning Mona but neither of us has seen that and we both know we’ve scene the movie this scene is from. > > I say it was a batty old woman in a car on the way to a funeral. He says it was a batty old woman in a car on a way to a funeral with her granddaughter. Other than that, we’ve both got nothing. Stabbing in the dark… Family Plot? (Hitchcock) Harold and Maude? What time period are we talking about? ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/5 "2016-04-16T03:55:50Z")
Nope, nope, and not a clue though I suspect late 80’s to mid 90’s. The movie was a comedy (I’m 99% certain of this). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/6 "2016-04-16T04:04:12Z")
Hrmm drawing a blank, and Google’s being no help. Any other clues? ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/7 "2016-04-16T04:06:29Z")
Not at the moment. I’m certain I only saw the movie once and I’m pretty sure that scene was the only part that made me laugh. It’s just a feeling I have. I could be completely wrong though. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/8 "2016-04-16T04:20:48Z")
Another clue that just connected, I think…the song was “I Shot the Sheriff”? It’s still not helping yet, but we’re getting there… ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/9 "2016-04-16T04:22:28Z")
Yeah. That’s the song. The old woman is wondering who shot the deputy if he shot the sheriff but not the deputy. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/10 "2016-04-16T04:39:17Z")
Google’s spewing all kinds of info, none of it germane, most of it about Bob Marley. If I could just come up with the right search terms… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/11 "2016-04-16T05:00:49Z")
Sorry, I’m coming up with zippity doo dah…maybe somebody with a different POV can pick up on this. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/12 "2016-04-16T05:33:18Z")
Somebody else. I always assumed it was the butler. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/13 "2016-04-16T12:50:51Z")
This webpage from the IMDb gives 155 soundtrack credits for Bob Marley, 21 of which are for “I Shot the Sheriff”: > **[Bob Marley - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002490/)** > > Bob Marley. Soundtrack: I Am Legend. Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica, to Norval Marley and Cedella Booker. His father was a Jamaican of English descent. His mother was a black teenager. The couple planned to... ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/14 "2016-04-17T16:09:41Z")
It also might have been the Clapton version. MiM ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/15 "2016-04-17T17:16:45Z")
I Googled Imdb + quotes + “shot the deputy” > [@](#): > > Passed Away (1992) > Quotes > Showing one item > > Mary Scanlan: If he shot the sheriff but didn’t shoot the deputy then who did? _Passed Away_ starred Bob Hoskins, and an otherwise less-than-stellar cast, except for Maureen Stapleton who played Mary Scanlon. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/16 "2016-04-17T20:02:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I Googled Imdb + quotes + “shot the deputy” > > _Passed Away_ starred Bob Hoskins, and an otherwise less-than-stellar cast, except for Maureen Stapleton who played Mary Scanlon. Bravo! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-help-please/752327/17 "2016-04-18T19:37:02Z")
Oh my god thank you!! It was still bugging me today!! It never occurred to me to search that way. Every time I tried to google something like movie quote + shot the deputy, I’d get news articles about some woman telling a deputy, “no wonder you people get shot”. What annoys me about this is that my fiance did say he thought it was Maureen Stapleton and it rang a bell for me as well but we still couldn’t find it.