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Gandy -- Thomas Mitchell in *Journey Into Light* (1951)

Crockett, Davy -- John Wayne in *The Alamo*

With that build-up, something involving Mae West?

Just *Bad Lieutenant*, no definate article. Your thread. -- Am I right that the NLCS in the story was fictional?

Wrapping it up and letting it go: If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn. Jennifer Jason Leigh quotes it in Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle

Marlon Brando, ja?

Thank you, thank you. I owe it all to research. Recently, on another thread, I posted a number of qestions re a movie about a very unlucky sports-book gambler who bet the wrong team and then went into crime trying to recover his losses. He did not recover them. The "hook" to that movie was that the game that brought him down was the real-life Super Bowl XIII, which was held in 1979. It brought to mind another movie about a man gambling on baseball, but, I believe the sports background was fictional. If I'm wrong on that point, I'm sure someone will point it out. Name the movie, from this description: A New York Detective is called to the scene of a homicide; he and the other cops stand over the body discussing the problems that they are having with their bets on the currently-running National League Championship series then taking place between The LA Dodgers and The NY Mets. They are solidly behind the Dodgers, and the Mets keep winning. As the film takes him through the next couple of days, he is seen snorting up on drugs, shaking down thieves and letting them go, arguing with his bookie over the phone. Wanting the bookie to place more bets for him, even though he owes a lot already. Something happens that makes him focus attention on his job, even through his drugged haze; A Nun is raped in a church, and some chufch property stolen. He actually makes progress in his case. On checking back at the church, he is stunned when told by the nun that she has forgiven her attackers, and will not give evidence if he finds them. Soon after, in his haze, he thinks he has a vision of Jesus approaching him in the aisle of the Sanctuary. It is a neighborhood women who has found some of the stolen Church artifacts in the basement of her building, and she tells him who is likely to have put them there. He goes to the building, to the basement, and finds the young men she has named, sitting on some ratty furniture and watching the NLCS game. He holds a pistol on them, handcuffs them together, and pats them down. Then he sits down with them, shares a cigarette, and watches the wrapup of the game. The Mets win again, which puts him deeper into debt, assuming that the bookie heeded his threats. (The Mets came back from being down three games to win a League title. That has happened in real life, I believe, but not against the Dodgers.) He takes the punks to the Port Athourity bus station, masking the cuffs by hanging a jacket over it. Without the nun's support he can not get them prosecuted, seems to be his reasoning, but he intends to have them out of town. He slaps them a couple of times, ineffectively, tells them to get on the bus and stay out of town from now own. After the bus pulls out, the detective goes back to where he is parked at curbside. After he gets in a car pulls up beside his. A male voice calls "Hey, Cop!" Two shots are heard. The car drives away, leaving his car there on a crowded street. The movie? The actor?

Oooooh! The one with scenes in a church! *Of Human Hearts* ??

I'm pretty sure to make my mark.

Mumbles -- Dustin Hoffman in *Dick Tracy* (1990)

Uh, *The Old Man With The Tuning Fork* ??

Kalmer, Bert -- Fred Astaire in *Three Little Words.*

> {quote:title=cmvgor wrote:}{quote} > New one... > > If I don't drive around the park, D. Parker -- and not a hard one.

New one... If I don't drive around the park,

*The Virginian* ??

Zippy -- Alvy Moore in *War Of The Worlds* (1954)

Wilson, Duke -- Yakima Canutt* in King Of The Cowboys ...*This great stunt man and second unit director, who very often went "uncredited" occasionally did do a cast-name role.

"Why, yes, I've won my share of Fox Hunt competitions. And you are...??"

The preceeding was an awkward question to pose, and this does not seem to be the place for it. I had previously considered and rejected it for a "do you know me?" question, because it seemed out of place there, also. If anything, perhaps it would have worked on the "2 truths, 1 lie" thread. Anyway, here it is: _Stella Stevens_ usually seen in vampy, comedy/glamor roles, was cast by Sam Peckinpah in 1970's *The Balad Of Cable Hoague*. The performance was warm, earthy, sexy and a solid match for that of co-star Jason Robards. Peckinpah later considered her for the female lead in 1972's *The Getaway* opposite Steve McQueen. At her get-acquainted lunch with McQueen, he told her, "Get this straight. I consider you the competition." She refused to consider working in such an atmosphere, and the role went to Ali MacGraw. This event is recounted by Stevens in an interview on the second disk of the *Cable Hoague* DVD. Anyway, thread's open.

Gehrig, Lou -- Gary Cooper in *Pride Of The Yankees*

*Ned Kelly* ??

Finally!, I've posted something someone else recognizes! Unc, it's yours after 23 Views.

A very good and very able actress -- also very, very beautiful. Her looks translated into a lot of "arm-candy" exposure, but when a real and meaty role came her way, she lived up to it. In the mid-1970s she made a Western (unsual for her) working for a director whose treatment of women in his scripts was often criticized. Her performance, and the movie. were very well received. This director did not often have actresses work for him a second time, but he invited this lady back to appear in a subsequent film. He arranged for her to have a lunch with the male star to discuss their working together. She was told something at that meeting that made her walk away from the project and avoid it completely. Actress? Actor? Director? Either of the films?

*2.* The big cattleman proceeds to lose everything in a poker game. A hotel clerk offers him a tidy sum for a partnership in the next herd he brings in. He wins back enough to start on another buying trip but his benefactor now considers himself a full partner and intends to go along -- won't accept a simple payback. Conversation between the boss and his ramrod: Ramrod: "...besides, he's right." Boss: "Why is he right?" Ramrod: " 'Cause if he wasn't you would have killed him by now." The boss has a very greenhorn partner.

Three-Fingered Jack -- L.Q. Jones in *The Mask Of Zorro* (1998)