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giveaway ?? ♫ Treat me nice, treat me good, treat me like you really should. I'm not made of wood, and I don't have a wooden heart. ♪

The Hanging Tree A barbeque

365 "..mlufoapumpl athvipempein^anvupkpkeneknv!" "Okay, I'll talk to you later, then."

Correct, twinkee. Your thread.

365 "Uh...I guess you don't have any mustard left. Am I right?"

enhancing the clue: Orson Welles: standard rich & famous contract

Lead-up to the quote: In a live-fire exercise, the speaker has just been complemented on the target hit he had made with the 90MM canon on his M-48 tank.

There have been two recent movies about Hitch himself, and other published discussions on that subject. The Wisconsin case of Ed Gein, and the resulting Robert Block novel, also titled Psycho, are the sources. I've thumbed through these subjects since this question was posted, and I've found no reference to any one movie being the "inspiration" for the making of the 1960 opus. As for the reference to a "gimmick", is there some aspect that Hitch referenced? A shower stabbing, a fleeing thief, a cross-dresser, an event involving ****? ??

A lot of the characters in this story are not human beings.

364 A casting still for the female lead in The Pumpkin Eater

Whew! Put some work into that one. I think I'll lob a real easy one here: Orson Welles: rich and famous

Unca -- Mona Darkfeather in The Cave of Death (1914)

duplicate delated

All the Young Men Forced -- dig one's own grave

Ah HAH! I had scrolled through all the IMDb quotes from In the Heat of the Night, but your extra clue sent me to one of the 'whole script' sites. Luck placed it fairly early in the script. "Could be a hitch-hiker. Scout both ends of town. Then the pool hall. Then the depot." ???

...as Brig.Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Your thread.

363 "Pay attention now! In those neighborhoods, it's important to know which signals mean 'Crips, and which ones mean 'Bloods'."

Not that one. There's also a fork in the road, and drinks on the house.

Anything about the speaker?

I've exhausted all leads I can come up with on this one. Maybe someone else can tackle it.

"As best I can figure it, we're on the wrong beach."

Comedy. Military setting. --Peacetime-- Cold War.

It's a myth! A myth!

362; i.e. the last Doris Day pic: "Yeah, damn it, they won the World Series! And I'm on record that I'll be ready to die once that happens!"

363 "Contacts? Aren't they the people who can tell you where to find the booze and the broads?"