# Movie that features 'Ask me no questions, i'll tell you no lies"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 25, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623 "2008-12-25T05:10:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Punintentional](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de0a6/32.png) [@Punintentional](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punintentional)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/1 "2008-12-25T05:10:31Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/2 "2008-12-25T15:28:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/3 "2008-12-25T20:52:53Z")
This is probably no help either but the first thing I thought of was “Don’t Ask Me No Questions” by Lynyrd Skynyrd. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/4 "2008-12-25T21:01:40Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/5 "2008-12-26T01:51:23Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/6 "2008-12-26T07:41:20Z")
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. > [@](#): > > _(Detective Peter Prince, played by Scott Thompson, goes out onto a balcony and looks down to see a sexy young man sunbathing on a chaise longue by the pool and eating an ice cube seductively. The Boy lowers his sunglasses.)_ > > Boy: You must be the detective. > > Prince: Who might you be? > > Boy: Well, I’m not Kitty. > > Prince: I didn’t say you were. Can I, uh, ask you a few questions? > > Boy: And I’ll tell you a few lies. The last line is repeated toward the end. > [@](#): > > Kitty (played by the lovely Dave Foley): I just went to the corner store; I told Carlos! > > _(All look at the Boy.)_ > > Boy: I forgot. > > Mrs. Gold: You forgot? You forgot?! The only thing you’re good for is fucking! Get out of my sight! _(The Boy starts to walk away.)_ Well, thank you, Mr. Prince. You must feel proud, another case solved. > > Prince: Just doing my job, ma’am. Kitty. _(To the Boy)_ But there’s still one thing that bothers me, Carlos. Why’d you lie about the milk? > > Boy: I said I’d tell you a few lies. > > _(Cut to a bedroom. The Boy is handcuffed to the bed, smoking a cigarette. Prince sits on a chair, holding a drink.)_ > > Boy: Hey, I thought you said I was under arrest, Detective Prince. > > Prince: Well, you ARE in cuffs, aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/7 "2008-12-26T08:56:22Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Reelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Reelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reelie)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/8 "2008-12-26T09:23:26Z")
Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/9 "2008-12-26T16:28:23Z")
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,”](http://www.heretical.com/miscella/kipling1.html) 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. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/10 "2008-12-26T17:14:01Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > 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,”](http://www.heretical.com/miscella/kipling1.html) 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. Are you thinking of [“The Female of the Species” by Space](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wIvsZBFhQ)? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/11 "2008-12-26T17:24:12Z")
Yep, you’re right; White Town did “Your Woman,” and I obviously didn’t bother to check. ---
**Author:** ![Zkyah07](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c37758/32.png) [@Zkyah07](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zkyah07)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2020, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/12 "2020-10-11T12:09:40Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![deeanimal13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@deeanimal13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deeanimal13)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/13 "2021-03-10T01:09:42Z")
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. > **[Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tricker_and_the_Stamp_Traveller)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller is a 1988 Canadian fantasy adventure film written and directed by Michael Rubbo. It is the seventh in the Tales for All series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête. > A young boy, Ralph, and his sister discover a magical ability to travel the world, riding within postage stamps. Complicated by a series of rules, they are soon lost in such far-flung places as Australia and China. Ralph has a s... ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/14 "2021-03-10T01:59:01Z")
> [@Punintentional](#): > > 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 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? ---
**Author:** ![deeanimal13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@deeanimal13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deeanimal13)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/15 "2021-03-10T04:46:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/16 "2021-03-10T04:59:49Z")
Thanks for the good words, I hope to get around to it! [adds film to growing stack of To Be Watched in my mind…] ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-that-features-ask-me-no-questions-ill-tell-you-no-lies/478623/17 "2021-03-10T05:07:08Z")
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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOABpY4PKko)