flashback42
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Not looking it up, but relying on something I think I remember learning long, long, ago...
*Night of the Hunter*? Robert Mitchum directing the juvies at the request of, uh, Elsa Lanchester's hubby?
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Irwin (i.e, Lord Irwin) -- John Gielgud in *Gandi* (1982)
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*A Clockwork Orange*
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Next up: Going with the verses, dropping the chorus.
♫ Friends all tried to warn me but I held my head up high,
All the time they warned me, but I only passed them by...
They all tried to tell me but I guess I didn't care,
I turned my back and left them standing there. ♪
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♫ Joey tried to help me find a job a while ago...
When I finally got it, I didn't want to go.
The party Mary gave for me when I just walked away...
Now there's nothing left for me to say. ♪
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♫ Years have passed, and I keep thinking what a fool I've been.--
I look back into the past and think of way back then.
I know I lost everything I thought that I could win --
Guess I should have listened to my friends. ♪
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*Where the Green Ants Dream*
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Pete Kelly's Blues
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Boomer (Captain) -- James Robertson Justice in *Moby Dick* (1956)
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Correct. There was a brief TV series about the same "third class city" entitled *John O'Hara's Gibbsville*, but it was *Ten North Frederick* that I had in mind.
lavenderblue's thread.
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BRIT: Fancy Man -- Literally, the man a woman "fancys" or likes. Often used in a cougar-gigolo relationship. Sometimes describes a married woman's other relationship.
AMER: Sweetheart, Boyfriend
BRIT: Argy-Bargy (rhyming slang) *
AMER: Argument or uproar.
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Yo, stick;
That song was also used recently in a Woody flick that had the same title as the song.
With no response from 'skipper, and nine days since your correct answer, you should be free to either post the next poser, or release the thread.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}"Margaret Garrison" is a character's name in that film, not an actress's name.
Oopsie! :8}
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The Public Defender is played by a very competent character actor with a starring role ahead of him in a popular sitcom that has a long run. His spaced-out client is early in his career, with both bigscreen and TV roles coming his way. Also some real-life pharmaceutical problems. They are both still in the business.
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This film is almost entirely flashback. A young woman serving as bridesmaid at her friend's wedding finds a piece of jewelry as they prepare for the ceremony, and her memories go back several years as she realizes that the bride once had an affair with her late father. Two minutes in the present, two more minutes in the present as they start the wedding, and the rest of the story is in the past.
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One of the characters runs a movie theater which specializes in revivals. He claims not to speak the local language -- as a means of avoiding conversations with those around him. The business is doing badly, and he is forced to take in a roommate to help with the rent. He admits to the new roommate about the language situation, and he makes a reference to a classic film, *Hangmen Also Die*, in which a man in hiding exposes himself when he laughs at a joke that he supposedly shouldn't have understood.
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Luckinbill, Tom -- Larry Reese in *Unforgiven*, (1992)
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Melvyn Douglas was in *I Never Sang for My Father* with Margaret Garrison.
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Hammersmith -- Richard Burton in *Hammersmith Is Out*, (1972)
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}Clark played a major role in THE YOUNG DOCTORS, starring Fredric March. He may have been in others.
He also had the lead role in *Because They're Young*, film version of the novel Harrison High, retitled to match up with a theme song.
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Movie fandom is a sizable subplot in this story about a South American capital city dealing with a serial killer.
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Thanks, lavender. Next up:
Gibbsville
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Pro footballer has died in a messy drug-involved scenario; One of his championship rings turned up in evidence from the crime scene. Defense Attorney for all but one of the defendants pulls an underhanded deal to rope in the other defendant. (It involved a deal with the young man's mother.) His actual aim is a lucrative book deal. The Public Defender who had lost his client approaches the mother with an outright bribe. She walks into the visitation room where her son is held, immediately walks back out, accepts her money and tells the PD that he has his client back.
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Without looking anything up:
*The Long Hot Summer*, right? I've paid scant attention to that movie, but my Lit 202 prof. had a thing for Faulkner, and I wound up reading (I think) all the Snopes novels.
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> {quote:title=flashback42 wrote:}{quote}
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> Yep. And a movie that deserves a second look. Worth the viewer's time.
Oh, yeah -- Abe also claims he invented the phrase "...Hummula, hummula, hummula.." to facilitate restless noise in crowds -- courtrooms, congregations, political meetings, lynch mobs and the like.
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Laughton! Damnit, I knew that! :8}
Open thread.