# Special Movie Trivia: Identify the movie from this scene description. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2002, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533 "2002-03-11T07:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/61 "2002-03-14T14:36:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > \*\*Here’s another hint about the scene with the young woman washing her mother’s headstone: the movie is based on a book. > \*\* I don’t particularly remember it (I only saw this movie once, some time ago, and I never read the book), but could that be _Angela’s Ashes_? ---
**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:** [March 14, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/62 "2002-03-14T18:09:47Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t particularly remember it (I only saw this movie once, some time ago, and I never read the book), but could that be Angela’s Ashes? No. The young woman in the scene is _English_. I’ll repeat another hint: the young Englishwoman’s mother died destitute and shunned by her family. Also, the movie and the book upon which it is based are fictitious. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2002, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/63 "2002-03-15T05:50:34Z")
BTW Protesilaus, you were right. NDP 5 is **Back to the Future Part II**. I’ll add another: NDP 6 - An apparent assassin is trapped on the top of the Space Needle. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/64 "2002-03-15T06:43:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > \*\* > No. The young woman in the scene is _English_. I’ll repeat another hint: the young Englishwoman’s mother died destitute and shunned by her family. Also, the movie and the book upon which it is based are fictitious. \*\* [whine] **NDP** , just TELL us![/whine] ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/65 "2002-03-15T07:30:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > > NDP 6 - An apparent assassin is trapped on the top of the Space Needle. \*\* The Parallax View ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/66 "2002-03-15T15:14:57Z")
I never heard back from **Spoonbender** on this one: > [@](#): > > **Spoonbender3:** A man nearly falls to his death due to a spelling error. _Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade_ (Jahova isn’t spelled with a “J” or something like that) Still waiting to see some action on these: **snow 1** : The movie ends as it begins, with the road blowing up (exploding) under the cars. (hints are that it’s not **Operation:Swordfish?** (nice try, though, **Cisco** ) and the movie is based on a true story. In Italy.) New hint: it involves the Mafia (big surprise.) **snow 2** : One robber/hostage taker dies, the other gets to go free courtesy of a pale lizard. New hint: the movie is set almost entirely in a bar. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/67 "2002-03-15T15:30:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by thinksnow \* > \*\* > **snow 2** : One robber/hostage taker dies, the other gets to go free courtesy of a pale lizard. > New hint: the movie is set almost entirely in a bar. \*\* _Albino Aligator_? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/68 "2002-03-15T15:39:13Z")
Let me float a few, just for the heck of it – JBATS 1: Two cops who have lost their pants chase a criminal. JBATS 2: A well trained horse shits on someone’s car. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/69 "2002-03-15T18:20:26Z")
Re: A well trained horse shits on someone’s car. Wasn’t that **Hooper** or some other w/ Burt Reynolds? ---
**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:** [March 15, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/70 "2002-03-15T20:06:02Z")
> [@](#): > > JBATS 1: Two cops who have lost their pants chase a criminal. **Running Scared.** Also, Kawliga is right. NDP 6 is **The Parallax View**. As for NDP 1 (i.e., the young English woman washing her mother’s headstone), here are some more hints: - the movie is based on a novel by a well-known American author; and - it is set in the early part of the 20th century. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/71 "2002-03-15T20:31:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Jack Batty \*\* > **snow 2** = _Albino Aligator_? Yup. I waffled on giving the “pale lizard” part, but it’s been a while and I couldn’t remember a good, specific, detail. Variation on JBATS 1: **snow 3** : Two cops who have lost their clothes ride a merry-go-round in a playground. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/72 "2002-03-15T20:41:59Z")
**lieu** hit it with _Hooper_ and … **NDP** is right on with _Running Scared_. I guess those were easier than I thought they were. Either that or **lieu, NDP** and I all watch the same movies. > [@](#): > > **snow 3** : Two cops who have lost their clothes ride a merry-go-round in a playground. _Men at Work_, I think. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2002, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/73 "2002-03-16T06:25:52Z")
NDP 7 - One man on a horse foolishly challenges another man after he says he’s old, fat, and disabled. ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/74 "2002-03-16T08:14:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > \*\*NDP 7 - One man on a horse foolishly challenges another man after he says he’s old, fat, and disabled. \*\* Just a WAG, but _Gone With the Wind_? ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/75 "2002-03-16T08:59:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > \*\*NDP 7 - One man on a horse foolishly challenges another man after he says he’s old, fat, and disabled. \*\* True Grit ---
**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:** [March 16, 2002, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/76 "2002-03-16T09:18:17Z")
> [@](#): > > NDP 7 - One man on a horse foolishly challenges another man after he says he’s old, fat, and disabled. > **True Grit** (Boldness added.) Kawliga is correct. NDP 8 - One man kills a cockroach so that he and his friend will be guaranteed to live longer than it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/77 "2002-03-16T16:02:58Z")
Back at the start of this thread I posted a scene about a groom putting the ring on his bride’s finger, and I figured it would be guessed. But it hasn’t so I will give another clue. To repeat the original scene: The wedding guests tense visibly as the groom, a Navy veteran, places the ring on his bride’s finger. The new clue is that the guy playing the groom died recently and it was in the news. He also won an Oscar for his performance. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/78 "2002-03-17T03:58:46Z")
> [@](#): > > The wedding guests tense visibly as the groom, a Navy veteran, places the ring on his bride’s finger. > > The new clue is that the guy playing the groom died recently and it was in the news. He also won an Oscar for his performance. The movie is **The Best Years of Our Lives** and the actor is Harold Russell. BTW, any guesses on NDP 1 (the English woman washing her mother’s headstone) or NDP 8 (the man killing the cockroach so he and his friend will live longer than it)? ---
**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:** [March 18, 2002, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/79 "2002-03-18T06:16:13Z")
I’ll rephrase NDP 8 to provide more information. NDP 8 - A prisoner awaiting execution kills a cockroach in order to guarantee that he and another prisoner will still live longer than it. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/80 "2002-03-18T08:09:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Jack Batty \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > **me** > > \*\*snow 3]/b]: Two cops who have lost their clothes ride a merry-go-round in a playground. > > _Men at Work_, I think. Yup. That makes two. Good job. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533.md?page=5)