"That's My Old Man's Lingo!"

[dougie_monty]

In the movie Mighty Joe Young, in the short scene in which the transient worker/tramp is taken into a local police station after seeing Joe in the back of the moving van at the filling station, he speaks Polish to the desk seregeant, whose reply is given as the title of this thread.
According to the Classic Horror Films Board (an online message board), the actor was Joe Ploski. This scene begins 1 hour 15 minutes into the movie. I still have not been able to get the Polish sentences that were spoken by Ploski or the actor playing the desk sergeant or the translation into English. (No information from the IMDB, either.) Can the Teeming Millions help me with this?

[Equipoise]

@dougie_monty

In the movie Mighty Joe Young, in the short scene in which the transient worker/tramp is taken into a local police station after seeing Joe in the back of the moving van at the filling station, he speaks Polish to the desk seregeant, whose reply is given as the title of this thread.
According to the Classic Horror Films Board (an online message board), the actor was Joe Ploski. This scene begins 1 hour 15 minutes into the movie. I still have not been able to get the Polish sentences that were spoken by Ploski or the actor playing the desk sergeant or the translation into English. (No information from the IMDB, either.) Can the Teeming Millions help me with this?

Can’t help you, but I just wanted to post that I always loved that movie (we’re talking about the 1949 version of course, not the 1998 version with Charlize Theron).

[CalMeacham]

The words are indeed Polish. My Polish isn’t good enough to help you, and I don’t have a transcription, but my mother told me 9when we were watching it one time) that the tramp was saying something like “There was a monster in the truck!”

What i always wanted to know was, Why did they say “My Old Man’s Lingo” instead of having the line say that his olf man’s lingo was Polish. You can do it without being awkward. It’s as if they didn’t want to simply say outright that it WAS Polish.
Another time Polish was used was in an episode of [iL:averne and Shirley**. My mother happened to be walking by and was surprised they used it, but she couldn’t recognize one of the words – they were calling somebody a bimboski, which is pretty obviously bimbo + -ski.

[dougie_monty]

@CalMeacham

The words are indeed Polish. My Polish isn’t good enough to help you, and I don’t have a transcription, but my mother told me 9when we were watching it one time) that the tramp was saying something like “There was a monster in the truck!”

What i always wanted to know was, Why did they say “My Old Man’s Lingo” instead of having the line say that his olf man’s lingo was Polish. You can do it without being awkward. It’s as if they didn’t want to simply say outright that it WAS Polish.
Another time Polish was used was in an episode of [iL:averne and Shirley**. My mother happened to be walking by and was surprised they used it, but she couldn’t recognize one of the words – they were calling somebody a bimboski, which is pretty obviously bimbo + -ski.

Thanks just the same. I have the move on DVD, with closed captioning, which I keep on although my hearing is OK. At this point, where Ploski speaks, the caption shows “[WAILS IN POLISH].” And the conversation includes the sergent saying “Nomed nigo?” or something… The captioning identifies the language as Polish.
The movie, of course, has Jill, Kifa (the housekeeper), Crawford, amd a few other people speaking Swahili; and the two natives speaking an unidentified African dialect.