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  1. > {quote:title=Jenetico wrote:}{quote}

    > Speaking of quotes. I was reading a book and the quote was something about Keeping Your Friends Close and Keeping Your Enemies Closer. The book said it was from a movie. Is this true? If so which movie? Thanks.

     

    In The Godfather Part II, Don Michael (Al Pacino) gives that line, and attributes the advice to his father, Don Vito (Marlon Brando in the first movie).

     

    I'm not sure that that is the genuine first use of that thought. The on-line Bartlett's doesn't have it listed, but I _think_ I remember Tony Soprano discussing it with his lady shrink, and saying it was from some Chinese warrier-philosopher whose name Tony probably mispronounced. Frankly,

    it sounds like Michiavelli to me.

  2. I'll try a new one.

     

    Sleeping With The Enemy it ain't. The bride grabs her jacket, ducks out the back door and hits the ground running after the first slap. Soon she makes a friend, and it turns into a female- buddies-on-the-road movie.

     

    What film?

  3. Are you _James Anderson_, perhaps best remembered as a venomous rabblerouser in To Kill A Mockingbird ?? Last two films (Ballad Of Cable Hogue, Little Big Man) issued posthumously?

     

    Career span seems to work out right, but I can't hook up the other points.

  4. > {quote:title=pastman wrote:}{quote}

    > ".... this film is about coming of age in the early part of the last century."

    >

    > How early are we talking here..?

    ...And in addition to time frame of story, time of release? At least by decade?

  5. Aw, phooey! I wanted to use at least one more clue, namely: "Its the Anti-High Noon. In church, the whole congregation pledge themselves to harbor and protect a fellow citizen."

     

    But you're right. Russ Tamblyn, with Seven Brides For Seven Brothers behind him, with Tom Thumb and West Side Story ahead of him, did a dance routine that a young Fred Astire may have done if ol' Whatsisname Burkley had ever sent him to a barn dance. It was a light passage, and maybe somewhat out of place, in a pretty grim gunfighter story.

     

    Your thread, pastman.

  6. Re Conqueror, I came by it honestly. Reading up on Pedro Armendariz, I read about his suicide after finishing his work on From Russia With Love, and wound up briefing myself on the whole account.

     

    A new one:

    Mid-50s B&W Western. Barn dance in a small frontier community. A supporting player, who is already known as a dancer, performs an intricate choreographed dance, occasionally using farm impliments as props. (One assumes a full-scale dance band has come in, and is just off camera.}

    What movie?

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