Frank Sinatra, and…his girlfriend? Janet Leigh, m’friend!
Of course, the dry lines on the page don’t exactly jump out they way she and Frank delivered them. That little scene is alone worth the price of admission (not to mention Angela Lansbury and her games of solitaire, or Laurence Harvey’s drunken ramblings at Christmas!).
C4 is all about inflection. Interestingly enough, I once record the sound from that scene, starting with David Bowie getting off the elevator to “Where is Chester Desmond?” and used it as the introduction to a mix tape. The answer is TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME. Oh yeah, it’s “Green is its color.”
RAT1: I claim this swamp for Poland.
My only guess is MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL. The scene right before Launcelot storming the castle, when the king is telling the history of the place. Otherwise I have no clue.
I thought it was Janet Leigh but I didn’t want to embarrass myself if I was wrong. Unfortunately I embarrassed myself by misquoting FWWM. (I’ve only ever seen it once, the day after it came out, so you’ll have to forgive me.)
The Manchurian Candidate, BTW, had the first-ever karate fight in an American movie. At one point Frank Silva rolled right instead of left and Sinatra practically broke his hand on a wooden table.
See, when you post about The Manchurian Candidate and Twin Peaks in the same sentence you get your Silvas mixed up. Henry Silva was in the karate fight. The late Frank Silva played BOB in Twin Peaks.
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“What did you give the Krauts for those eggs?
45 cigarettes, the price has gone up.”
Sounds like William Holden in Stalag 17.
To give a complete answer to one from the first page, the quote about “buzzards got to eat, same as worms” is Clint Eastwood from Outlaw Josie Wales. He’s just killed a bunch and someone has asked him if he’s going to bury the bodies.
Here’s a few:
Will you take me to see the crowned heads of Europe?
Do you know any?
Big Chief gottem new sqwaw?
I’ll say she’s new, she has even been unwrapped yet.
Captiain, can your ship take the pressure?
If not, the Electric Boat Division is going to get
a very nasty letter.
Don’t go making yourself sick, eatin’ like a field hand.
Pardon me, but could you help out a fellow
American who’s down on his luck?
Broadsword, calling Danny Boy. Broadsword, calling Danny Boy. Do you read me? Over.
No one ever won a war dying for his country. He won the war by making some other poor son of a bitch die for his country.
I wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
What have you done to his eyes?
He has his father’s eyes.