cmvgor

Shirley Jones, nes pas?

*The Night he Lights Went Out in Georgia* (1981) (was this one named in that song-to-movie thread?)

*Rob Roy* -- 1995 title role for Liam Neeson

"I've always thought of contentment as a form of resignation. Just giving up." Who? Where?

*Red River* DOWNSTAIRS or UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE

*10.* A shot near the end doubles back to what was seen at the beginning. The body at the bottom of the cliff is the young man who owned the car. A sequence at the party, and another the next morning give the impression that the peer has given up on trying to woo his wife away from others, and has simply raped her. She seems trapped in this existance; to escape would mean leaving her son behind. To the people who seem to matter here, the proper things have been preserved and protected. An earlier clue contained a paraphrase, which is here quoted exactly. "If you want to understand the British ruling class, the Cockney-born Michael Caine once explained to me, it would help to know that they were all shipped off to boarding school at the age of five, and spent the next ten years in a same-sex society, being beaten about once a week." (Roger Ebert) The makers of this film would probably agree with that comment.

*The Missouri Breaks* (1976) *Mississippi Mermaid* (1969)

*Nixon*, Richard M. -- 1995 title role for Anthony Hopkins

*The Blue Lagoon* THE LAVENDER HILL MOB or CHARTROOSE COBOOSE

*9.* The organized friends move quickly to guide the police to identification of who owns the car involved in the traffic homicide. His face also was visible at the place where the car was repaired. The terrified young man, now openly a suspect, shows up at a party (to which he was not invited) where even the girl he thought was his girlfriend advises him he should leave. He refuses to leave, demanding to speak to the driver -- who has no intention of meeting with him. A group of the friends gather around to menace him with comments about a "party crasher".

Hildern, James -- Christopher Lee in *The Creeping Flesh* (1973)

*8.* The aristocratic driver and the wife are portrayed by British actors who are familiar to American audiences. Both have done stints on series TV in the US.

Bowie, Jim -- Sterling Hayden in *The Last Command*

Negative re *Browning Version* That reference was my own comparison to the poem "My Last Duchess", and the husband's reaction to the wife with the "heart too soon made glad" (by people, things, sights other than himself). I do not believe any such reference was made in the context of the film. At times the story lapses into his interior fantasies, and he has to be called back to present reality. *7.* The owner of the car finally tells his girlfriend (the driver's sister) what happened. This young lady has certain hostilities towards her brother (including his choice of a wife), but she is now in a position of having to act for or against her Class. She waits, but not for long. All rally around the brother. One of the men involved has plans to use the death as leverege against the brother in business matters. The boyfriend has made a serious mistake.

That three-way conversation is in *The Grifters* (1990). The actors were John Cusack as "Roy", Angelica Huston as the mother and Annette Bening as the friend. My clue about the source novel was wrong. Jim Thompson wrote the book, and I had him confused with James M. Cain. My bad. Thread's open.

I'll let this one go overnight, and drop it if not named by then. One of the participants in the conversation won an Oscar in another role.

*6.* The driver makes a small ceremony of taking his adolescent son to the barber that he uses, introducing the lad to his own world. The mother dotes on the boy, and she is distressed that he is about to go off to boarding school, depriving her of his company most of the year. The father continues his resentful suspicions of her, bringing to mind the monologuist in Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess."

*5.* The only person bothered by the woman's death is the owner of the car. This is a young man who is an outsider to the group. He is a minister's son who wound up in their prestigious school as a scholarship student. He is courting the sister of the driver, and is mostly just tolerated. He rarely is allowed to finish his sentences when talking with his girlfriend's mother. He keeps trying to talk the others into doing the right thing -- report an accident -- and this makes him dangerous. (Paraphrase, not a quote: "To understand the English upper classes, you have to keep in mind that they were all taken out of their homes about the age of five and spent the next ten years in a single-sex environment being beaten once a week.")

Wallace, Marsellus -- Ving Rhames in *Pulp Fiction*

*4.* The driver who ran over the woman was a titled peer who had married below his station. His wife was beautiful -- started out as a fashion model and then moved into the business side of that industry. She moved easily in social and work environments; charming people and getting her way with a flirtatious, schmoozing manner that was valuable to her employers. But the husband was resentful and suspicious of her ease with others. His family had little respect for her. And the dead woman on the street -- she looked somewhat like the wife. To a drunk, jealous man, driving at high speed, she perhaps looked a _lot_ like the wife

Quill -- Gig Young in *Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Carcia*

Negative re Arden, but I can see her being right at home in a scene like this one. By the end of the movie, one of the characters in this scene has killed the other two. One of them deliberately, the other accidentially.

Orton, Frances -- Leonie Barber in *Prick Up Your Ears*

*3.* A group of upper-crust, upper-income friends, some of them Falkland War veterans, some of them Titled, hold a drunken reunion party. Driving away from there while under the influence, they hit and kill a woman on the street. Driver actually seems to swerve in order to hit her. Cover-up begins the next morning, to include covert repairs to the vehicle.

Absolutely right. If you don't want to pose a question, you have the option to open the thread. cmvgor