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Seems like all the classic movies had classic lines that we will always remember. Probably the most famous of all is, "Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects". My favorite is, "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock". Love that one! And then there's, "I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously, unless you keep in practice. Now, sir, we'll talk if you like. I'll tell you right out, I'm a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk". Oh well, you get the idea.
here I go again: went to see the 50th anaversary release with the wife at the Ritz downtown. Was bitterly disappointed to be shunted into a screening room a bit smaller than what you might expect on an intercontinental 747. There can't have been more than 50 seats. But we'd gone this far. Turns out, everyone there knew every line. Within a few minuites we were reciting along with the actors. It was one of those rare cathartic events that makes going to the movies with a sophisticated crowd so much better than anything else...even theater. That film has more famous lines than anything ever made, or anything that will be made, (unless more people get to see Monty Python and the Holy Grail).But our favorite: when "Louie" is forced by the Germans to close down Rick's casino: "I'm shocked! to find gambling going on here." and then one of his men comes up behind him and hands him a big wad of cash..."Your winnings, Sir."
You've got to love the lines and the delivery of Sidney Greenstreet in "the Dinkus" (the Falcon). The great thing about the movies made during that era is the excellent timing of the dialogue. I much prefer a clever script to the current rage for action and effects.
I'll tell you right out, Pete, I'm a man who likes talking to a man who talks like you. Great observations about clever scripts which seem to be missing from today's flicks.
Silent Movie - "No" Marcel Marceau"I don't think we are in Kansas anymore"
"Frankly Scarlett, I don't give a damn"
"...you can't be crazy, if you say you are crazy, thats what Catch-22 is"
"I yam wat I yam"
Not the greatest movie, but a great line:When Roy S. turns around after seeing the shark for the first time in "Jaws" and says,
"We're going to need a bigger boat".bjjb
"Og Safar" - Dean Stockwell in "The Dunwich Horror". (Hopefully famous
one day)
nt
"Dunwich Horror" was most notable as the return of Sandra Dee to movie acting after leaving her teenage Gidget career films behind. Instead, she got to play the sacrificial virgin who...oh hell, it's the same thing isn't it? Only thing missing in "Dunwich Horror" was the surfing (but they had nice Monterey pine trees).
Real Genius(1) "I was contempting the immortal words of Socretes who said ... I drank what???"
(2) "I watched your television show on radioactive isotopes and I have a questionn ... is that your real hair?"
"your son isn't by any chance adopted, is he?"
"no"
"amazing!"
Star Trek Spok's lines from I think the Undiscovered Country
(1) "there's an old Vulcan proverb that states ... only Nixon could go to China"
(2) "An accestor of mine stipulated that if you eliminate the impossible, what remains, however improbable, must be the truth"
A Letter to 3 Wives I think
"Tempo fugit ... right professor?"
"almost"
Monkey Business
the dean asks his secretary played by Marylin Monroe "get someone to type this up"
Great movie. Speaking of Orson Welles, one of my choices for most memorable scenes would be the brilliant opening of Touch of Evil. Casablanca is filled with memorable lines; one of my favorites, referring to Captain Renault, is "...oh, he's just like any other man only more so".
Very good! How about the last one, "I distrust a close-mouthed man..."Here's a couple more to chew on.
"I don't think you fully understand, Bigelow. You've been murdered".
"The barbarities of war are seldom committed by abnormal men. The tragedy of war is that these horrors are committed by normal men in abnormal situations" Hint: Spoken by the title character.
Daryl
The "close-mouthed" line seems very familiar but I can't dredge up from my memory where its from."You've been murdered" has to be DOA.
No idea on the "barbarities of war" line. Sounds like something Robert E. Lee might have said but I'm guessing it ain't him.
Yea, the doctor to Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) in DOA."I distrust a close mouthed man..." Casper Gutman (Sidney Greenstreet) to Sam Spade (Bogie) in the Maltese Falcon.
Barbarities of war... Spoken by Breaker Morant (Edward Woodward) in the movie of the same name.
Daryl
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