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> {quote:title=RainingViolets101 wrote:}{quote}
> Ulee, Tom peter fonda in Ulee's gold
Please check sources. IMO, you'll find it should be in the J position and should read:
Jackson, Ulee (for Ulysses) -- Peter Fonda in *Ulee's Gold)
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I'm beginning to feel like a jinx. Very well-known and well-respected films seem to fade out of everyone's mind as soon as I try to describe them. In the example at hand, I gave two highlights of *Riding In Cars With Boys* , and got not a peep. Maybe some of the films I've chosen lately just got written off as chickflicks by many of the posters around here. I didn't count the Views this
time. Anyway, I've got nothing new for the moment.
Thread's open.
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"_Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man that couldn't be throwed_
I don't want to lean too hard on this one. That bit of doggerel is pretty generic; it could turn up
in any story involving equestrians and spirited horses. I don't know if its been used in Black
Beauty, *Flika* or *Racing Stripes*, but I'm not sure it hasn't, either. The movies I that I am sure have used it are:
In John Huston's *The Unforgiven* (1960) ace bronkbuster John Saxon uses that line to comfort Albert Salmi, who has just been throwed. They are in the course of taming some new mounts needed for a cattle drive.
In Sam Peckinpah's *Junior Bonner* (1972) Steve McQueen and his friends and family are sitting
auound talking Rodeo, which has taken up a lot of their time and their lives. The line goes down comfortably, something that they have had to contemplate many times.
Thread's open if anyone has a new question.
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Sixes;
You nailed it. The last time I saw it was a couple of years ago _on_ TCM. Was impressed by the
storytelling technique, with Darin, and with James Anderson in further flashbacks as the father.
Had you seen it, or was it just research talent? (Solved in less than 24 views. Now at 7,863)
Thread's yours. Pick us a good one.
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*2.* In the "present day" of the 60s, a psychiarist relates that he had a case during WWII, while
working for the Federal prison system. The patient, incarcerated for pro-Nazi activities, suffers from insomnia, has bad dreams when he _can_ sleep. In flashbacks to that series of talks, the
patient is revealed as brutal and crafty -- and very intelligent
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BRIT -- Grasp the nettle.
AMER -- Take the bull by the horns.
...i.e, Deal directly and bravely with a difficulty.
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(At 7,839 Views, a new attempt.)
*1.* Early 60s release, b&w. Told largely in flashback, the story traces the history of a psychiatric
case.
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Negative re *Lusty Men*, but you're on the right track. One of the sites I have in mind is indeed
a rodeo-based story.
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Maybe I've got my game back and another "one clue" gig will work.
The boy grows up and reads the autobiographical material that his mother publishes. Other readers have cause to admire her courage in plugging away at becoming a writer. _He_ gets the point that her struggle was harder because of his presence. He was sitting in the room, a visible
handicap, at a job interview -- because his doped-out father did not show to take care of him when
he should have. In later years, when she is near to getting established, she needs a signed release from the father/ex-husband. The dad's current girlfriend forbids this without a money payoff that she can not afford. The dad comes through with the release by slight-of-hand. The mother lets the son go back to his own girlfriend --driving opposite from the direction she needs to go. She makes a phone call and waits. The person that responds is her father. They go back in her direction doing a Sinatra-quality duet of "Something Stupid."
"I'm your mother! And that means you are not allowed to stay mad at me!"
What film?
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Webster, Daniel -- Edward Arnold in *The Devil And Daniel Webster*, 1941
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*At 7,238 Views:*
Curious, Dan. I would have thought that the format belonged to Turner, and that all screens would show the same. What _do_ you see when you click on to a Forum?
Anyway a question that involves two movie titles. This line is in two different movies, in very nearly the same exact wording. The line:
"_Never was a horse that couldn't be rode; never was a man that couldn't be throwed."_
Obviously, stories with Western emphasis. One story is set in the 19th Century, the other is set in the 20th Century. What can you tell about film titles, setting for the comments actors, etc.
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That seems to eliminate *The Puppet Masters* and *Signs*. Think its one I haven't see. I'm out.
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BRIT -- Giving a donkey strawberries
AMER -- Casting pearls before swine.
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Russell, John -- Paul Newman in *Hombre* (1976)
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*It Came From Outer Space* (1953, Richard Carlson) ??
If not, timeframe?
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Addressing Cheerful Dan re MilesArcher's comments re View-counting (currently at 2,711 Views):
Yeah, uh, what he said.
cmvgor
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*Killers From Space* (1954) ??
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*It Conquered The World* (1956) ??
...Something about your description just conjured up the face of Peter Graves, y'know?
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pastman, it seems to be yours by about 7 minutes; take first refusal, but _one_ of you take it.
cmvgor
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3,064. At 76 Views, fugettaboutit.
1989's *Breaking In* stars Burt Reynolds and Casey Siemaszko. It has it's moments, has it's
good points.
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I've had some luck with this in the past. and I'm going to try it again. One descriptive clue, that I hope will give enough information to help the poster identify the film:
Mid-90s. Interesting SF fantiasy of the "Wild Talent" variety. A small-town farmer/handymen suddenly has unusual abilities. He can solve complicated problems. He can move things with his
mind. In a medical crisis involving a small boy from a foreign family, he speed-reads through a large part of an English-Portuguese dictionary. By the time they get to a doctor, he is able translate for the family to give the doctor the facts he needs. Lightning math calculations in his mind. All this _may_ relate to a bright light he saw in a night sky. Government and Military authorities get involved and want to do research on him. They go as far as they can with non-
invasive tests and scans; to learn more, they would have to take him apart. He refuses this
when asked to volunteer. The military head of the project then orders that they do it anyway, on the grounds that "the subject" is now of unsound mind. If he were not, he would realize how important it is for the good of the country for this research to go farward.
What movie?
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pastman;
You logged in with that comforting thought just as I was about to hand out the last few tidbits:
(1) One of the cowboys took Fredo Corleone out on the lake and shot him. (2)The Indian rustler
is currently a star of a long-running courtroom drama in a completely different ethnic guise. (3)
The range detective once rode a nuclear bomb from a plane to the ground like it was a bronco.
And 1975s *_Rancho Deluxe_* ran on the Western Channel just last week, programed right after
Rancho Notorious! I thought surely there would be someone around who had seen it.
I've given most of the plot points in the clues. The rustlers and ranch hands team up to rob the rancher bigtime. The range detective, who spends a lot of time in the sack, sends the woman in to lure the cowhands. (That seduction was cut when I origionally saw this on network TV.) Her sob story gets her the information about just who expcts to come into a large sum of money, and how soon it is expected to happen. It is while accepting his check for services rendered that the oldster gives his tip about inside jobs. The woman, now looking seedier than when she was setting
the honey trap, is standing by waiting "get to Great Falls and spend my cut."
In the final scene. the rustlers are not too unhappy. Turns out the Montana prison system has a ranch section where a 'Trusty' can live with a pal in a line shack and ride fence and herd cattle.
Consider this one answered: *Rancho Deluxe*. Thread's open for another title. Question ended after 109 views.
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Capt. Cassidy (Cary Grant) in *Destination Tokyo* ??
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With his spending habits -- lodging, clothing, women -- the youngster is soon in custody. Then the crunch: The police see his conspicuous consumption, but they are unimpressed with him as
an operative. He can buy his way out of a _lot_ of trouble by naming someone. A test of friendship.
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*9.* The woman tells her new boyfriend about some great financial problems in her dear family.
The lovestruck cowboy is gratefully able to tell her that he will soon be able to help.
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BRIT -- Caravan
AMER -- House trailer (motorless camper)
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in Games and Trivia
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Zola, Emile -- Paul Muni in *The Life Of Emile Zola*