flashback42

Correct. Screwballsallovertheplace comedy. (2002) At an even 225 Views, Edy's thread. Edited by: flashback42 on Apr 18, 2012 5:13 PM

A real off-the-books fringe character. Camps out of sight in vacant lots, and sympathetic cooks and maids feed him. Lives his life in quest of Doritos.

Yep. Yours.

Two Primetime Emmys: Outstanding Single performance by an Actor in a Lead Role -- the enobled Barrister, And Outstanding Single performance by an Actress in a Support Role -- the young woman. (The power Names in the cast turned the central character into "support", it seems.)

Primates in the Fog

Thanks, skipper. Next up: "Do you know what time it is?" "A watch doesn't really go with this outfit, Daddy." ???

The beleaguered father who only wants his son's respect and affection back. -- Has a sitcom running on ABC now. In the past he starred in a long-running sitcom that divided his time between his family and his job as a Fixit guru on a television show.

The narrator for these stories. -- Took home his Oscar for playing a Shakespeare role. This man also had an actual Knighthood in real life. On an impulse, checked amazon.com. They have this story on DVD, but in "Non-USA Format." Edited by: flashback42 on Apr 17, 2012 11:30 PM

*Grease* ???

Deleated: unintentional duplicate. Edited by: flashback42 on Apr 17, 2012 5:12 PM

*52 Pick=Up* Elmore Leonard stuff. 'Nuff said.

Correct, lavender. Both versions of this story have their merits and their moments. lavenderblue's thread.

Chaotic cross-thread plotting and sitcom coincidence get the forlorn father, the thieves and the bomb all on the hijacked plane together. The father sabotages the passenger door so that it will not close. After takeoff, over the ocean, the plane goes into the water, but without immediately breaking up. The bomb slides out the passenger door. A strong and determined (but stupid) thief is still hanging on as it plummets toward the ocean floor -- when it goes off.

In the remake, the central character is in prison behind a caper that went bad. He's true to the Bad Guy's Code, ratting on nobody. But the man he's doing time for is not. Ordered by his father to employ and support the prisoner's wife and infant daughter, he secretly underpays the wife, then attempts to seduce her and he unintentionally sets up events that get her killed in an auto accident. The convict slowly gets the straight story on what happened, then he turns informant. The older Boss dies, the younger one is elevated. The prisoner is the one who informs authorities of Junior's weaknesses.

The head of a law firm where she worked. -- High socially (a Title). Prestigious in legal circles also, and with a sense of droit du seigneur toward women employees from the "lower" classes. He had manners and charm, but the basis of their relationship was his perceived entitlement. This actor had given an Oscar-winning performance in a well-received historical drama, as it happens, portraying a great legal mind of the past.

WAG here. Groucho and Chico in *Go West* ???

The 1940s original was a landmark in the career of a rising young actor. A lot of that development hanged on a sequence about pushing a helpless wheelchair-bound victim down a flight of stairs.

The nuclear bomb weighs hundreds of pounds, but the thieves who think it's gold manage to get it on a small plane, then they hijack the plane while it's still on the tarmack. Fiddling around, they have armed the damn thing, and close-up shots occasionally show the audience into the device as the timer ticks down.

A fellow employee, educated into competence for a middle-management job, but retaining the accents and mannerisms of his Cockney origins. She rejects his quite proper advances, and he writes her off as a social climber and a phoney. This actor had a background in such roles, some in comedy and some in action. Supporting Oscar for a story set in USA.

Skipping X York, Joe (Det. Sgt) Geoffrey Russell in *No Hiding Place* (1959 UK TV)

*144* "You got me! I'm that Ned Brainard. Flubber's done a lot for me, of course. I'm raising three sons, you know."

Was Cinemascope there?

*144* "Oh, it could be worse, my dear. The Trooper agreed to wait until we're outside before he puts the cuffs on me."

Ullman, Todd -- Leonard P. Geer in The Rifleman (1958)

This arrestee is a second-generation wiseguy, recently elevated due to his father's demise. But the police have known him for years. An outsider who is better acquainted with him than most is able to tell the police something useful: This guy is unable to tolerate having metal in his mouth; has to resort to plastic cutlery. When the cops become aware of this they refuse to let have the plastic utensils. Winds up eating with his fingers. He figures out who told the cops.