Movie that features 'Ask me no questions, i'll tell you no lies"?

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I think there is a movie that features this quote quite a lot, mostly from the one character.
I think he says it 3 or 4 times throughout the movie, at one point i think he even starts the quote, and it’s then finished off by one or two others.

This is quote broad but i hope someone can help.
Does anyone know what movie this is?

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Dont know the movie but the first time I came across this quote it was from an old English poem about smugglers in roundabout the nineteenth/eighteenth C.

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This is probably no help either but the first thing I thought of was “Don’t Ask Me No Questions” by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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I think I know what you’re referring to, but I can’t recall the name of the film. Was it kinda “heartwarming” (gag…), from the early to mid 1980s?

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There was a movie I saw on TV years ago that the lady who played the Wicked Witch of the West was in, and she said that line. And the movie looked to be from the 40’s or so.

Edit…I looked it up, apparently the movie is called “13 Ghosts” and it was made in 1960

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I know it’s not what the OP is thinking of, but is it sad that the only thing that pops into my head is a segment from “Kids in the Hall”? It’s from the fourth season, the “Kitty is Missing!” noir ‘film’ parody.

The last line is repeated toward the end.

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Hijack
Oh goody I get to be a know it all for once.
AFAIK The lines originally come from a poem called the Smuggler Song penned by Rudyard Kipling

Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark -
Brandy for the Parson,
'Baccy for the Clerk;
Them that asks no questions isn’t told a lie -
Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by.

Sorry but I have no idea about the movie

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Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show.

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FWIW, Kipling also coined the phrase (the title and subject of one of his poems), “the female of the species is more deadly than the male,” which, like the “Don’t Ask Me No Questions” line which inspired Lynyrd Skynrd, also inspired a song, “The Female of the Species” by White Town.

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Are you thinking of “The Female of the Species” by Space?

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Yep, you’re right; White Town did “Your Woman,” and I obviously didn’t bother to check.

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I’m not sure if this is what you referring to but I know I first heard/fell in love with that line when I heard Brad Pitt’s character say it in the film, “Thelma and Louise”.

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It’s been several years, so I doubt you’ll ever see this comment. But I know exactly what you’re talking about. It’s a 1988 movie called Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveler.

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Since it got bumped, I’ll ask a question I was going to years ago…

I think there is a movie that features this quote quite a lot, mostly from the one character. I think he says it 3 or 4 times throughout the movie…

Wasn’t that annoying? To have a quote, or what basically becomes a catchphrase, repeated a couple of times? It sounds like lazy writing, and I wanted to ask the OP about it, but they’re banned now.

So @deeanimal13, if you saw the movie, was this the case? Was it any good?

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Eh, if I remember correctly, it was kind of endearing. As much as a low budget campy 80s movie can be. But it’s been over a decade since I’ve seen it. The movie in general wasn’t fantastic, but it had a unique story that made it memorable.

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Thanks for the good words, I hope to get around to it!

[adds film to growing stack of To Be Watched in my mind…]

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I believe the phrase was, I believe, made popular via the song "Ask Me No Questions(And I’ll Tell You No lies) from 1950:

Ask Me No Questions (And I’ll Tell You No Lies) - YouTube