cmvgor
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Seen on television in the mid-1950s and never again. I believe the setting is Law School. A student has written a well-received paper on the subject "Man Above The Law". I don't remember
the circumstances, but he kills another man, and then is trying to cover it up. He is asleep in his room, and someone knocks on the door, waking him up. He answers the door, and the plot collapses. The body of the story is a dream The man at the door is the man that he (and the audience) thought he had killed.
I Googled some keywords, and found nothing. Does anybody recognize this?
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The Three Little Pigs
ONE TRUE THING or EIGHT MILLION WAYS TO DIE
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...Sieze The Day By The Light Of The Silvery Moon Over Broadway Danny Rosemary's Baby For Love Of The Game...
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Yo, Sixes;
I couldn't manage to google it, but it just plain sounds like Groucho Marx. I would guess either
Horsefeathers or Duck Soup. I do believe its the latter that has a courtroom sequence.
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Yo, FredC:
Good points all, matching the clues to story events. TCM were so impressed, they printed it twice in my EMails.
All the facts you cited can make possible matches with the plot points submitted. These
points are not similar.
(1) That story takes place on a larger stage -- pretty much taking up all the world that mattered,
as far as the participants knew.
(2) For many, that story is History and a part of their faith. It is not just a rippin' good action yarn;
not a selection for pleasure viewing.
Nevertheless, let's play this out and see what other comparisons can emerge.
Clue # 14. "Why? Because I once knew a woman like you, and there was nobody there to help."...Title? (one title only)
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Two Guesses:
1. Hitler's Children
2. Abbott and Costello Meet Der Furer (sp?)
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Clue # 13. "No, you got it wrong. I never said I'd help you against him. I said him and me are quits. Its not the same thing.' -- Title?
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Yes, Georgio, You Better Watch Out For A Few Dollars More Than a Miracle On 34th Street Because I Said So In The Heat Of The Night.
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Okay, let's do a little catching up:
The Glass Key indeed runs the supblot about the caught-between guy and the gang leader being after the same girl -- I assume both versions under that title. I've never seen the 1935 version. Miller's Crossing also carries that theme.
Yojimbo and Fistful Of Dollars feature the point about being carried out of danger in a coffin.
The captive woman: Yojimbo and Fistful Of Dollars again, and also Last Man Standing.
Maninthemiddle a stranger who drifted in from other parts: Yojimbo, Fistful Of Dollars, Last Man Standing.
Maninthemiddle formerly in one of the gangs: The Glass Key, Miller's Crossing.
Incidentally, The Glass Key also features a capture-and-beating (William Bendix beating up
Alan Ladd), but his escape was unaided. He didn't have that many friends.
Clue 12
a.(one title only) A happy-looking mongrel trots by with a chopped-off human hand and wrist in his teeth.Title?
b.(one title only) Gang boss thinks he can marry into Society and become respectable. (No one else thinkes he can.) Title?
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Oh, goodie! Someone finally came out to play. Let's sum up:
Miller's Crossing is indeed another version of this story, done by the Coen Brothers.
Last Man Standing (1996) is another. Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken.
I've seen Scarface only in remake. I can see many plot points that are similar, but I don't
think it goes all the way. The henchman's friendship with the boss he betrays is the strongest
matching point.
King Of Kings?? Again, seen only in remake, and would like to see further arguments on that point.
dangerous passage?? Not familiar with it. Need more info.
Now I'm going for an eye exam that will include having some wierd things done to the pupils of my eyes. Will be back at this screen when I can focus again.
Clue # 11. As mentioned earlier, some of these versions involve a captive woman. Others involve a gang boss and the caught-in-between guy being sweet on the same girl. Titles?
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Clue # 10. In some versions, the hero, badly wounded, gets carried away from danger by some friends, who have him concealed in a coffin. Titles?
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"Got it now? I eat my meal, go to the checkout with your tab for coffee, pay and leave. You get upset at being left with my tab, pay for your coffee and you leave. Then we meet at the next place and the next and the next until we're all fed. Easy.
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I can't figure out if this subject is too hard to bother with or if it is so easy as to be a bore. But I'm
going to be patient.
Clue # 9. In some of the versions of this story, the caught-in-between guy is a stranger who
wandered in, looked over the situation and dealt himself in. In other versions, he is a former member of one of the gangs, even a friend of the boss, who had a falling out. Titles?
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Clue # 8. Yet another version of this story is set during Phohibition, on the US -- Mexican
border. Christopher Walken has a large support role.
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Clue # 7. The Coen Brothers have put out yet another version of this basic story -- a very good one. Title?
As for the examples named in Clue #6:
Glass Key (1942) was a remake of Glass Key (1935). Sourced from a Dashiell Hammett novel.
Fistful Of Dollars was a remake of Yojimbo (1961).
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deleated. duplicate post.
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I'll give two:
The Glass Key (1942)*
A Fistful Of Dollars (1964)*
...* These are both remakes. Naming the origionals would add to the list of right answers.
Clue # 6. In some, but not all of the examples, a captive woman is taken away from her family and held by a gang boss.
(Its legitimate to use the same titles again, when and if they answer follow-up clues.)
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Mary Ure
worked with Richard Burtain again (and also with Clint Eastwood) in Where Eagles Dare in a
cast that included
Michael Hordern.
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Right. Meat Loaf to Gailard Sartain. The granddaddy was Art Carney.
It's yours.
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halfway giving away the store here...
Tagline and running gag line:
"Everything works if you let it."
That can be traced to a title, but it doesn't give you the speaker. One can get to those answers by other means.
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Negative re that source. I ran across the line in a 1980 story about musicians. The speaker had started as a rock singer. He had already been in a featured role in a cult musical.
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Thanks, Dan
For years before I knew about the internet (and actually before it existed in it's present form), I would spot a line I liked and jot it down in a notebook, which I still have. I have no idea if this one
will be easy or not.
"Like my granddaddy always said, anything worth doin' is worth overdoin' "
Who? To whom? Film?
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Mary Martin.
SUNBEAM & BURIAL HILL + RELIGIOUS RITE & OCEAN
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Love With The Proper Stranger
Bert Lahr in Lay's Potato Chip commercial?
in Information, Please!
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1969's The Comic stars Dick Van Dyke as a star from the silent era who aged past his stardom and also had a rivival of sorts in a commercial. He recreated his old persona and went through a routine about wanting to clean his clothes. I don't remember if the ad was about a washing machine, a detergent or a laundramat, but it involved climbing into the machine with his clothes on, coming out all spiffy.
The rest of the story revolves around the character's silent short comedies. and his real a**hole personality. In the closing scene, he is sitting in his lonely room watching one of his old silent films on TV. The other star is his first love, who left him long ago. Mickey Rooney plays his sidekick "Cockeye" (think Ben Turpin). Oh, yes, even before that closeout, it shows his sparsely-attended funreal.
I always figured that the laundry ad sequence was based on Lahr's temporary comeback with Lay's