# Name the movie from this half remembered bit-- again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130 "2017-10-06T19:16:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/1 "2017-10-06T19:16:42Z")
Late '70s, early '80’s perhaps? Ben Stiller’s dad plays a bank robber or a kidnapper and, just sort of throw-away like, is sucking on a blonde actress (Sally Struthers? Loretta Swit?) teat. That’s it. That’s all I remember. If anyone is curious, this half remembered piece of scene came to mind when my husband and I were discussing guys you’d never see in a sex scene. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/2 "2017-10-06T19:35:35Z")
No idea about the movie, but seeing Jerry Stiller described as “Ben’s dad” just made me feel really old. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/3 "2017-10-06T19:40:48Z")
“The Ritz”? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/4 "2017-10-06T19:42:35Z")
> [@Twoflower](#): > > No idea about the movie, but seeing Jerry Stiller described as “Ben’s dad” just made me feel really old. Ah, don’t feel that way. I’m old too. I just could not remember his name and Ben Stiller’s dad was better than Leah Remini’s or George Costanza’s dad. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/5 "2017-10-06T19:45:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > “The Ritz”? Seems too slapstick for what I’m remembering. However, I have been known to conflate way back memories. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/6 "2017-10-06T19:58:18Z")
The only other one from that era where he plays a sleaze is “Nasty Habits”(an allegory about the Watergate mess set in an abbey.) ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/7 "2017-10-06T20:14:11Z")
If it was Ben Stiller’s real dad playing his (movie) dad, this kind of sounds like a really short scene in (the remake) “The Heartbreak Kid”. Ben calls his dad (played by his real life dad) for some advice while on his honeymoon in Baja, and his dad is in a hot tub with some naked blonde. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/8 "2017-10-06T20:20:45Z")
> [@cormac262](#): > > If it was Ben Stiller’s real dad playing his (movie) dad, this kind of sounds like a really short scene in (the remake) “The Heartbreak Kid”. Ben calls his dad (played by his real life dad) for some advice while on his honeymoon in Baja, and his dad is in a hot tub with some naked blonde. That’s a 2007 movie, though. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/9 "2017-10-06T20:26:49Z")
Keeping in mind that I do, in fact, conflate old memories, I looked around a bit. I think I may be confusing some actor in the 1972 movie The Getaway with Jerry Stiller. Did some bad guy suck on Sally Struther’s blembas in this movie? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/10 "2017-10-06T21:00:40Z")
The original version of _ **The Getaway** _, directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw. It was later remade almost scene-for-scene with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/11 "2017-10-06T21:03:52Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Keeping in mind that I do, in fact, conflate old memories, I looked around a bit. I think I may be confusing some actor in the 1972 movie The Getaway with Jerry Stiller. Did some bad guy suck on Sally Struther’s blembas in this movie? Yes, he did. The cuckolded husband was played by Jack Dodson (“Howard Sprague” on _ **Andy Griffith** _). In the remake, the wife was Jennifer Tilly and the husband was James Stevens (“James Hart” on _ **Paper Chase** _). Stiller’s role was played by Michael Madsen. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/12 "2017-10-06T21:23:53Z")
But that wasn’t Jerry Stiller in “The Getaway”. It was the same 70’s heavy that was in “Mr. Majestic” (with Charles Bronson). I don’t know his name, but the guy who “kidnaps” (kind of) Sally Struthers wasn’t Jerry Stiller. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/13 "2017-10-06T21:33:27Z")
> [@cormac262](#): > > But that wasn’t Jerry Stiller in “The Getaway”. It was the same 70’s heavy that was in “Mr. Majestic” (with Charles Bronson). I don’t know his name, but the guy who “kidnaps” (kind of) Sally Struthers wasn’t Jerry Stiller. You’re right. It was **this guy** , just made up with a '70s pornstache like Stiller’s: > **[Al Lettieri | Actor, Additional Crew, Writer](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504803/?ref_=tt_cl_t5)** > > Known for: The Getaway, The Godfather, Where Eagles Dare ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/14 "2017-10-06T21:59:35Z")
So it remains true. You’d never see Jerry Stiller in a sex scene. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/15 "2017-10-07T05:46:09Z")
Not really a sex scene, but in the afore mentioned “The Heartbreak Kid”, Stiller sure as heck talks all about sex in graphic detail. Here is a still from the hot tub scene NSFW WARNING, nudity: > **[The Heartbreak Kid :: Celebrity Movie Archive](https://www.celebritymoviearchive.com//tour/source.php/4139)** > > Nude celebrity MP4 movie clips from The Heartbreak Kid In the last of the four stills he looks like he is shouting, “Serenity now!” Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/16 "2017-10-07T07:15:06Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > So it remains true. You’d never see Jerry Stiller in a sex scene. If you do and it’s taking place in your van, you’ll have to sell the van. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movie-from-this-half-remembered-bit-again/798130/17 "2017-10-07T14:49:40Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > If you do and it’s taking place in your van, you’ll have to sell the van. “If the van’s a-rockin’, don’t come knockin’!” 🆒