visualfeast Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 *DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS*? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Good guess, but that?s not it? 2. This fellow also has a prison record and a compulsive habit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Here's another clue: 3. With some inside info, a gambling establishment heist is planned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visualfeast Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 *ANY NUMBER CAN PLAY*? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Another good guess, but it's not that one either 4. A young woman of relaxed morals stays with one man, but becomes his prot?g??s lover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankt65 Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 The Killing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Excellent guess, Frank?it?s not the right film, but Kubrick was a great fan of the film I?m talking about? 5. A petty criminal is coerced by the police to be their snitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Looks like this thread needs a little kick?here?s some sidebar info along with clue #6?the director was not only admired by Kubrick, but also Godard and Truffaut, and some have said that this film inspired *Ocean?s Eleven* (all versions and sequels) and just about all heist films that followed it?a remake, with a different title, was made in the early 21st century? 6. The modern young woman continues to get around; she unwittingly leaks the heist scheme to the snitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 You know the drill. I know this is wrong, but I'll guess THE ASPHALT JUNGLE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Even a wrong answer is a good answer, all answers accepted here. The writer/director/producer appeared as a minor character in Godard?s *Breathless*, he took his last name for his favorite American novelist, one of the greats of the 19th century? 7. A slot machine in his closet ? the sure sign of a compulsive gambler? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 So this is a foreign film? A relative weakness of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankt65 Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Bob the Gambler....directed by Jean Melville? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Frank! Yes! *Bob le flambeur/Bob the Gambler* (1956) it is? written/directed/produced by ?the godfather of the French New Wave? ? Jean-Pierre Melville, who worked often with French star Alain Delon...love this movie and recommend it highly (check it out, finance)?good work, Frank?I knew you were out there somewhere waiting to pounce?your turn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankt65 Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Thank you eve....he 50s was my decade for foreign films - I love this movie too. But back to America. Clue #1: Untypical boy meets girl story. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy never gets girl back....not really. He is transferred to a distant land that will make it impossible for him to return. But before he goes there will be a series of incidents that will bring the couple closer together than they have ever been before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankt65 Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Horrors lurk in the shadows. Before they depart the boy and the girl are attacked on the streets by a mugger. The boy is badly injured....he is unable to perform any deed - my lord, he cannot even pick up a penny. A terrible accident....or was it? The horrors continue to lurk in the shadows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankt65 Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 This film - one of the highest grossing movies of that year - was nominated for 3 AAs, winning 2. It catapulted its leading lady to super-star status. One famous scene from the film has been satired more that a dozen times. Sadly the leading man has recently passed away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 A wild guess-----DIRTY DANCING? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 A wild guess-----DIRTY DANCING? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankt65 Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Not Dirty Dancing finance. Clue #4: The girl is heartbroken. She knows that she will never see the boy again. Then one day there is a knock on her door. A stranger with haunting news about the boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 *Ghost* ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankt65 Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 You are too smart ladyeve. It is to you to stump us all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Thanks, Frank, but the clues were all there, and nicely put, btw...I'll be back later with a movie... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 OK...here's one... 1. An overweight and unemployed suitor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lady Eve Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 Mr. 6's, I thought it might go quickly, but that was warp speed! It is/was *The Shop Around the Corner*...excellent...your thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metz44 Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 "An overweight and unemployed suitor" WHO??..not jimmy stewart?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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