describe the scene game

[starliteyes]

While at the airport saying goodbye to his flight attendant girlfriend, a reporter recognizes a G-man who is traveling incognito among the passengers.  Assuming that he is on the trail of a criminal, he decides to go along on the flight to get the story.

[starliteyes]

When the plane makes a stop in New Mexico, one of the passengers buys a hunting knife from an Indian.

[starliteyes]

Also during the stop, the reporter introduces himself to the G-man and asks him if he is on the trail of a certain killer.  The G-man tells him that he isn't, but that he should stick around anyway.

[starliteyes]

Back on board the plane, while all the passengers are asleep and the flight attendant is getting some coffee, one of the passengers is fatally stabbed.

[starliteyes]

Hint:  Movie is a mid-30's Warner Brothers B picture without any big name stars.

[shutoo]

this sounds so familiar...was there sort of a funny drunk on the plane?  maybe I'm thinking of something else...

[starliteyes]

I think you're on to something, shutoo!  There was a funny drunk on board and he shared his bottle with a nervous female passenger, who proceeded to get plastered, too.  I think this played on TCM sometime over the summer.

[starliteyes]

this sounds so familiar...was there sort of a funny drunk on the plane?  maybe I'm thinking of something else...

I think it's time to pull the plug on this one.  Shutoo, although you weren't able to name it, I think you did have the right picture in mind, and so the thread is yours if you want it. 

 

The movie was Fugitive in the Sky (1936), an action packed and entertaining little programmer from Warner Brothers that starred Jean Muir and Warren Hull.

[shutoo]

Thanks Starliteyes..I'd convinced myself it had 'murder' in the title, so I would never have remembered it

 

next:

 

An author is signing books at a department store, when the smell of a 'celebrity' perfume from the next counter makes him suddenly ill, and he runs outside.

[shutoo]

He's followed by his overly adoring fans as he runs through NYC streets, dodging cars, and jumps into a horse-drawn carriage.  He doesn't recognize her, but the woman in it is also famous..and he's said some mean things about her in the past.  Meet cute alarm.

[shutoo]

The woman he meets is, in fact, a famous actress known for her ego and temper.  The two actually came to NY on the same train, in adjoining compartments, but never met.  We see them both in their rooms..she's angry that a crowd came to see him and not her, and he says "marshmallow faced movie stars make me sick".

[shutoo]

The actress goes to a New England inn to see the writer again, and he gives her skiing lessons.  After she falls and is unable to get back up, he says he will help her up if she will marry him. 

30s film, two very famous leads.

[lavenderblue19]

Time for another clue, please

[shutoo]

The unlikely couple end up married, and on their wedding night, she spritzes on her signature perfume..he has the same violent reaction to it (see clue one) and she disappears before he can explain it's the scent, not her.  The papers herald the return of the missing actress when she goes home to her grandmother.

 

(I'll throw in the towel after this  )

[lavenderblue19]

A helpful hint,  telling us what decade the film was made in for starters. Maybe info about the leads or the director.

[shutoo]

mid 30's, four of the cast were Oscar nominated (not for this film), several wins.  Both leads were very big stars, but she was better known for pairing up with another tall fellow on screen. Off screen, the two leads were actually exes.  I have no idea if he meant it, but Bill Murray once said this was one of his favorite films.  The director is known for a long career starting in silents, mostly comedies.

[lavenderblue19]

Thanks Starliteyes..I'd convinced myself it had 'murder' in the title, so I would never have remembered it

 

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An author is signing books at a department store, when the smell of a 'celebrity' perfume from the next counter makes him suddenly ill, and he runs outside.

The Moon's Our Home. Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan??? Your clue about the ex's did it. I remembered they were briefly married in real life in the 1930's. Many years ago I read Brooke Hayward's book Haywire. She talks about Fonda's and Sullavan's marriage quite a bit.

[shutoo]

That's the one!  It is interesting that they had been divorced only about a year when they worked on this film..maybe that's why their 'bickering' scenes are so good  Evidently, the studio thought the snow scenes were most important, as they ended up on most of the advertisements, but I prefer the 'split screen' train trip segment..quite clever...Great detective work, LavenderBlue--Your thread!

[lavenderblue19]

LOL- yes that is probably why those bickering scenes were so good

 

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As a man is about to be sentenced, a lawyer rushes in and proves the man is the rightful heir to an estate

 

 

[lavenderblue19]

Another scene, he takes off his shirt and shows the scars that he has on his back from a whipping

[lavenderblue19]

His uncle was the one who had given him the whipping

[lavenderblue19]

Another scene-  He makes crude eating untensils, a fork and knife

[lavenderblue19]

Another scene- As he sails away, the woman who loves him removes the flower behind her ear and watches as the flower drifts out to sea

[Azure]

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

[lavenderblue19]

Son of Fury, The Story of Benjamin Blake starring Tyrone, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, John Carradine and Francis Farmer. Love this film. Tyrone and Gene were so young and so beautiful in it. I think you and I Azure, are the only 2  on the site who've seen this film. Good work, your thread