[Do You Know This Song?]

Large cast; many characters. Three of the characters are named Nana, Castor and Cole.

[Who Said This ?]

 

Of course he was. That's his business.

 

cujas' thread

 

 

[name the movie]

A runaway horse, valuable animal with a reward offered. Some young men on motorcycles try to run it down and capture it. Unsuccessful.

[Who Said This ?]

The speaker -- some solid acting chops, and also a solid rep as a standup. Specialized in insult. No glasses, no mustache.

[describe the scene game]

One of the crooked cops shows up while the caper's going down. In the dark, blunders through a door that shouldn't have been open, falls a couple of floors to his death.

[Do You Know Me?]

By happy coincidence, verbatum from an autobiography that arrived from Amazon yesterday. Do you know me?

 

"I was onstage shortly before I was born. My mother was playing a part in (title) on Broadway. "But, (name)," the producer said to her, "the audience just can't accept a prostitute who's seven months pregnent." So we were fired."

 

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Edited by: flashback42 on Mar 20, 2012 6:20 AM

[Do You Know This Song?]

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Lots of music, lots of singing. Large cast but no one a name singer. As with this scene, several characters have numbers that identify and define them to the audience and -- help advance the plot. As with this number, there is often counterpoint from the others around the one who is momentarily the center of attention.

 

Edited by: flashback42 on Mar 19, 2012 11:48 PM

[name the movie]

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Small-town farming country in the West. Conditions made bad by a prolonged drought.

[name the movie]

Drifted back to page 4, brought farward, then drifted back to page 3 again. Abandoned question; abandoned thread.

 

Mid-1950s, color. Family-friendly story templated on an older, more famous film, with a popular novel behind that.

[Do You Know This Song?]

six days idle = abandoned thread

 

A lead and (chorus) counterpoint each other:

 

I'm mean I'm mean I'm mean

Ya know what I mean

(He's mean he's mean)

Ya know what I say

(He says he's mean)

Ya know what I mean

(He's mean he's mean)

 

Mean

(He's mean he's mean)

Ya know what I mean

(He's mean he's mean)

I say what I mean

(That's true that's true)

I mean what I say

(He do he do)

 

I'm so mean I had a dream of beatin' myself up

I broke my nose

I broke my hand

I wrestled myself to the ground and then

Choked myself to death and then broke the choke and woke up

 

That's how I mean I'm mean

Ya know what I mean

(He's mean he's mean)

I practically lost

(The fight of his life)

And it took me all night

(All night all night)

But I came out all right

(All right all right)

Because I'm so mean.

 

Film? Character? Singer?

 

Edited by: flashback42 on Mar 19, 2012 5:07 PM

[describe the scene game]

 

This guy works as a waiter, but he's also a safecracker. Breaks into a unit where (unknown to him) crooked cops are keeping their stash, and there's a lot more money there than could legitimately be expected.

 

 

[Who Said This ?]

Statement was made in the 1960s, in the speaker's Playboy Interview.

[2000 TO PRESENT MOVIE TRIVIA]

Correct. *Before the Devil Knows You're Dead* (2007). Albert Finney and Philip Seymour Hoffman in that hospital scene.

 

danjw's thread

[A to Z of Characters]

Quilligan, Patrick Michael -- William Bendix in *Don Juan Quilligan* (1945)

[2000 TO PRESENT MOVIE TRIVIA]

Something went badly on a planned caper, because the wrong henchman was brought in.

[describe the scene game]

"Charlie! They took my thumb!"

[CATCHALL FILM INDUSTRY TRIVIA THREAD]

Not clear from the wording of the question, but...

 

If TV series-to-movie examples are incluced, then 1954's *Dragnet* is another addition.

 

If series-to-movie examples are not included, then PLAYHOUSE 90's *Judgement At Nuremberg*

(10 Apr 1959) is an addition.

[Who Said This ?]

Not MacLaine; it was a man. A solid Name in the Biz, but not considered a Ratpacker.

[Who Said This ?]

Abandoned thread. Next up, not from a script; from an interview:

 

"(Frank) Sinatra doesn't mess with me. I've got a copy of *The Kissing Bandit* put away in a safe place, and I know how to use it."

 

???

[A to Z of Characters]

*Nora Prentiss* -- 1947 title role for Ann Sheridan

[New thread: movies climb upwards]

*Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo* (1944)

 

Historical. Some five months after Pearl Harbor, the Us accomplished the feat of dropping a few bombs over the Japanese capital. Unimpressive military results, but a GREAT national morale booster.

[Game: Name the fictitious place, name the movie]

The fictitious place: Santa Bella, Cal, and Santa Bella High School. Russ Tamblyn as the Student/ undercover Narc/ drivetime shaver.

 

Sixes' thread.

[New thread: movies climb upwards]

B-) Gotcha.

(But I didn't show up in time to log 28 Days Later )

[Favorite line from movie.]

Appropriate as to timing:

 

"God bless all in this house."

 

"Wipe your feet."

[Game: Name the fictitious place, name the movie]

A scene in this movie led to an incident that resulted in a minor news item. Behind the opening credits and a soundtrack song, a young man gets into a convertible and pauses to rub his chin. He takes out an electric razor, plugs it into the cigarette-lighter outlet. and drives along while shaving himself. Arriving at school, he parks and puts away the shaver.

 

In real life a California traffic cop caught a motorist emulating that act while driving on the Expressway. Stopped him, ticketed him. (The portable shaver that could be used in the car was a new item then, and was being widely advertised on TV.) It wasn't supposed to be used while driving.