LonesomePolecat
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THE COCOANUTS — Out hero, Bob Adams, is a young architect who wants to buy a lot to build a house (yes, the movie has a plot!!)
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“Rhythm of the Islands” played by the Hawaiian band in IT’S A DATE
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Another song about Hawaii or other Polynesian Islands
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Title song from SAN FRANCISCO
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another title song that also contains a place name
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I keep thinking of Weird Al songs, but a song used in OFFICE SPACE is Fats Waller’s “All that meat and no potatoes”
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another song that starts with A
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I think any realistic movie about space travel counts, but certainly something like MAROONED or APOLLO 13 where they are in trouble in space
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LAWRENCE OF ARABIA — extreme heat
NANOOK OF THE NORTH — extreme cold
K19 THE WIDOWMAKER — nuclear meltdown
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“I Love a Piano” from EASTER PARADE
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another of the many songs with “I Love” in the title
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POLTERGEIST (1982)
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Just now, TopBilled said:
two thousand three hundred twenty-ninth category80s horror
FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)
SWAMP THING (1982)
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)Wow you just beat me!
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Weighty titles:
REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT
HEAVYWEIGHTS (1995)
ANCHORS AWEIGH
THE FAT MAN (1951)
Weighty characters & plot points:
THE CRUCIBLE -- Giles Corey saying "More Weight!"
"The Fat Man" -- Sidney Greenstreet as Gutman in MALTESE FALCON
"Stupid Fat Hobbit!" -- Sean Astin as Sam in LORD OF THE RINGS:
COLUMBO -- "Lovely But Lethal" -- Vera Miles runs a fat farm on the side
MASH -- "The MASH Olympics" -- Hawkeye & B.J. help a soldier lose weight to stay in the army while Klinger tries to gain weight to get kicked out of the army
THE SANTA CLAUSE -- Tim Allen suddenly gains a lot of weight as part of his Santa transformation
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I know there are movies with jockeys weighing in such as SEABISCUIT and I think A DAY AT THE RACES, so to represent them all I submit this Norman Rockwell painting:
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IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
DESIGNING WOMAN
CAROUSEL
THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE
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“My Man’s Gone Now” from PORGY AND BESS
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another song that starts with M
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MILDRED PIERCE
THE BIG CLOCK
DOUBLE INDEMNITY
LAURA
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (retelling verbally but without flashbacks if that’s ok)
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Perry Como -- "Red Hot & Beautiful" -- Perry Como in DOLL FACE
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another song with a color in the title (not "blue moon")
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SERGEANT RUTLEDGE
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“Red and Black” from LES MISERABLES
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Sung by your classic movie crush (or someone you think is hot)
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REMEMBER THE NIGHT — Stanwyck
MIRACLE ON 34th STREET — Santa
THE WRONG MAN — Fonda
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“Seize the Day” from NEWSIES, turned into a Broadway show years later
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Some classical music in a movie
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“Could you use me?” From GIRL CRAZY
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another fun boy-girl duet
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Title number from DAMES
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another song that starts with D
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17 minutes ago, shutoo said:
Secret Passages...this one from Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
The passage of time...illustrated here in Of Human Bondage
reading a passage...gets Henry Fonda in trouble in The Male Animal
Secret passages also in THE HAUNTING and CLUE
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“The Balboa” — Judy Garland — PIGSKIN PARADE (1936)
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a song early in a different star’s movie career
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NORTHWEST PASSAGE
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE — George Bailey dreams of being a big time architect but instead builds houses for the Bailey Building and Loan
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT — Barbara Stanwyck almost marries a boring architect who gets a home building gig with her magazine