Nice beaver
By a weird coincidence, I was just thinking of that line about an hour ago. The final episode of The Amazing Race had a stop at Kenmore Air, a seaplane base near Seattle. I thought “nice beaver”, because, parked behind the Racers was a DeHavilland Beaver.
Thank you. I just had it stuffed.
The granddaddy of these is about…horse racing.
…wasn’t that after the TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT discussion of whistling technique?
Yes. To Have and To Have Not was her first film. The “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve?” scene is memorable but not quite as racy as The Big Sleep scene. But there is that little shimmy she does as they get ready to walk out of the bar in the final scene. Yum.
When I was a tot the afternoon cartoon show had mostly WB with an occasional Fleischer Bros. thrown in.* One of the ones was Clampett’s “Becall to Arms” (edited extract here) and I didn’t really get it then.
Later on I did.
*It was a real treat when they’d show the Popeye two-reelers, “Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor” and “Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s forty Thieves.”
I’m partial to Marilyn Monroe’s line in Some Like It Hot:
“I always seem to get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.”
A long time ago KTLA (Los Angeles Ch.5, if memory serves) showed Bullitt. Some brainiac in the studio decided to cut the entire chase scene. I think there was a small uproar of viewer complaints.
Yeah, but that chase is so boilerplate – if you want a good chase (in San Francisco, no less), the one in What’s Up Doc? is much more entertaining.
Yeah, that Captain Ron, what a movie!
Great scene with Philip Glass piece.
Legend has it that when The Sound of Music was released in Korea, one theater thought it ran too long so the manager cut out all the songs.
That’s rather like saying Shakespeare is no good because it’s all cliches. In 1968 it was the granddaddy of them all, predating The French Connection – rated #1 on this site, Bullitt being #2.
At some time in the 80s one of the local Chicago affiliates (I want to say ABC) aired movies on Saturday afternoon. I seem to remember that once they ran a Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie and cut out all the dance numbers so they could fit in more commercials.
On the subject of spectacular, ground breaking, cae chase scenes in otherwise fairly generic forgettable movies there is the Ronin car chase:
That face ceminds me of the unforgettable scene that ends with the haltingly-delivered line “This … is from … Matilda.”