cmvgor
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Speedway
SNAGGLEPUSS or FRED (WHO KNEW THE JOB WAS DANGEROUS WHEN HE TOOK IT)
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1990
Husband / wife confrontation:
"I'll have your guts for garters, Charlie!" *
..*I would like to put this one on the BRIT / AMER thread. Regret to say, I can't think of a suitable American counterpart.
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A scene involving twins:
"I had a beautiful dream last night. I dreamt I was asleep in my bed...and I looked just like you."
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Oh, whatthehay, this one should go down quickly.
_Fact-based_:
American criminal: "Do you know the Beatles?"
British criminal: "No, but they know us."
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"My father died a hero, in the last calvary charge in history. Polish calvary against German tanks.
The Germans made a lot of heros that day."
...Christopher Jones in The Looking Glass War.
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BRIT -- a*s
AMER -- burro, donkey
BRIT -- bum, arse
AMER -- a*s
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"Well, the thinking is they'll get smaller and smaller as time goes on. Maybe even be portable one of these days!"
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pastman;
I think you'll enjoy it. I blurred over some things: Different appearence, hairstyle, personality, according to the customer. Playing to their own needs and picking up on the clues on the fly.
One response to the young soldier, another to a recent widower. And humor is present in these changes. And the ruined life and career involves a hidden homicide.
And on her last trip home, The Girl walks past a former john -- and goes back to Melbourne riding Coach.
I think you'll find it worth your time.
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BRIT -- I coshed him.
AMER -- I slugged him with a blackjack.
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Swingin'! You're up. -
It is about a prostitute. Its not Irma La Douce, not Pretty Woman.
Australia's Warm Nights On A Slow Moving Train (1988) casts Wendy Hughes as "The Girl" who teaches Art all week in a Catholic school in Melbourne. Weekends, she spends on the Melbourne-to-Sidney train. In the club car, she selects her johns, and takes them to her compartment in the sleeper car. This provides an income that serves the needs of her brother, an injured athlete who is drug addicted. It also provides her with a sex life and -- such as it is --an emotional life that is under her control.
She can briefly connect with these men, but the end of each encounter comes when she needs it to. Complications come about when one man, a charasmatic politition, actually touches her -- and then employes her services to destroy the life of an enemy.
With 85 Views and only one Reply, its evident that no interest was generated here. But I think it is a loss that this interesting story did not get wider attention. As mentioned in one of the clues,
it is on the TCM list.
The Thread is open.
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NAME THE MOVIE
No series of clues here -- this statement and nothing more.
A babysitter/drug mule will not ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT go on a trip in a plane without her "lucky" hat. She also goes against instructions and arranges her flight by using her employer's phone -- and that phone is simulcasting. Result: The end of a number of criminal
careers.
What movie?
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BRIT -- A bloomin grahss *
AMER -- A #@%(& snitch**
...* shortened from "snake in the grass."
...** all are synonyms of "rat, tattletale," etc.
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Giving away the shop, here. Selling out.
I guess the next best thing to giving obscure clues is to have an obscure movie. My deception here is that this is not a USA title. It is a movie from another English-speaking country. IMO, it did not get the attention or distribution it deserved. The quote that I gave earlier can be found in "Quotes" locations, but I did not find it in connection with any movie. The year of issue is 1988.
I'll leave it here for a few more hours, if someone wants to work with the two new pieces of information and try again to find it.
Also, this is one that is in the TMC list, but I have never seen in on the schedule. And it is just bare-bones info, also, no synopsis.
cmvgor
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The object is to record expressions wherein British and American people (and writers and scripters) say very similar things in dfferent ways. Here's one:
BRIT -- I'll knock her up.
AMER -- I'll call her on the phone.
Anyone else?
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"I get the drumstick! I get the drumstick!"
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Said during a pause in the walk from the club car to the sleeping-compartment car:
"I sleep with men for money."
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There is one john who captivates and intrigues The Girl (her cast-list ID), one man she could possibly love. And he makes use of her to destroy the life of a political enemy.
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",,,and if this doesn't get us a guest shot on MST3K, you do the laundry for the rest of the semester!"
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1980s. She is deft at dealing with the johns (cast-listed only as Salesman, Football Coach,
Young Soldier, etc). As someone in her situation must do, she spots difficulties before they develope, and evades them. The john who falls in love and wants to immediately marry her is handled swiftly and without trouble.
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Audry Hepburn
ended up as the sweetheart of Burt Lancaster at the end of The Unforgiven, after the Kiowas
killed and scalped her first beau --
Albert Salmi.
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Her added income supports the needs of her badly injured, drug-addicted brother. He was formerly a fine athlete.
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Her other job: Teaches Art at a Convent school.
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Tryin' again.
A case study of a very competent hooker. Works trains. Picks up johns in the club car;
retires to a sleeping compartment.
Swingin'! You're up.
name the movie
in Games and Trivia
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Okay, this one ain't got legs. I'll wrap it up and close it down. These quotes were from The Krays (1990), a biopic of the twin-brother hoods who were dominent in London's East End
rackets in the 1950s and 60's. Ronnie and Reggie Kray were portrayed by _Martin and Greg Kemp_ , lookalike brothers who had already made a name for themselves as musicians with a band called Spandau Ballet". Billie Whitelaw played their rabid mother -- sort of like "Public Enemy's" mother multiplied. They engaged in extortion, gambling, and nightclub ownership, and, indeed they occasionally crossed paths with, and got photographed with celebs. They ended their careers with long prison sentences. The 1990 movie does have it's moments.
Open now for the next Name The Movie question.