movie quotes with a twist game

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The Caine Mutiny

 

MacMurray as Keiffer:

 

"We are all doing penance. We are all outcasts, surrounded by outcasts, on a ship named after the greatest outcast of them all."

 

Robert Strauss: wire cutters

[Emgee66]

*Stalag 17* Robert Strauss as Animal

 

 

I'd like to know what made him do it.

 

Animal: Maybe he just wanted to steal our wire cutters. You ever think of that?

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Emgee66;

Correct re the Strauss quote. IMO, one of the really cool curtain lines. Your thread, to either post a question or open.

[Emgee66]

James Cagney: wishing well

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"I wish you was a wishing well so that I could tie a bucket to ya and sink ya."

...Cagney to Mae Clark in Public Enemy -- the famous scene involving the grapefruit.

 

Joseph Wiseman -- fingers.

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The Wiseman-fingers reference could be cumbersome due to the length of the scene. Some narrowing down may be useful. Either of these may work:

finger of righteousness

finger of vengeance

finger of transportation

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RETIRING THE QUESTION

This is a good Trivia question, but the flow of the scene makes it too cumbersome for the way this thread is set up.

 

The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) Two opinionated and stiff-necked men, one Jewish, one Amish, are in a theological conflict, based on their different interpretations of Scripture. Starting with the Fist of Righteousness and moving to the fingers, it goes all over the place, until they decide to go to the theater and try to avert a crisis. (BTW, the Finger of Transportation turns out to be the thumb -- in a hitchhiker's gesture.)

 

Open thread.

[Kid Dabb]

Bette Davis : peanut

[Emgee66]

*All about Eve*

 

"I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut."

[Kid Dabb]

You got it, Emgee

 

Your turn

[Emgee66]

Barbara Stanwyck: yum-yum

[Emgee66]

Must be from *The Ghost Ship*, where of course that word is a key element in understanding his character.

Exact quote therefore hard to pinpoint:

 

authority cannot be questioned

[Emgee66]

Spencer Tracy:legal

[LonesomePolecat]

Hmmm.... what comes to mind is either the great closing speech from *Judgment at Nuhremberg* ("We stand for justice, truth, and the value of a single human being") or the angry one from *Adam's Rib* that he says as he's packing ("Contempt for the law, that's what you've got, and it's a disease!")

[Emgee66]

Sorry, but no: the word legal is used repeatedly

[Kid Dabb]

I believe I've found it..

 

*Fury (1936)*

 

Spencer Tracy as Joe Wilson:

 

"I'll give them a chance that they didn't give me. They will get a *legal* trial in a *legal* courtroom. They will have a *legal* judge and a *legal* defense. They will get a *legal* sentence and a *legal* death."

 

??

[Emgee66]

You have indeed found it; congrats. You have the floor.

[Kid Dabb]

Thank you, Emgee

 

*Next:*

 

Natalie Wood : vice

[Kid Dabb]

You got it.

 

Haunted house

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"You know my weakness for sailormen."

"Well, it's the first I've heard of it."

"Oh, it's a lifelong vice."

 

...Natalie Wood and Gene Tierney in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

 

 

Anthony Hopkins: census taker

[Emgee66]

Classic

 

Hannibal Lecter: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

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...In The Silence of the Lambs , of course.

Your thread, Emgee66.

[Emgee66]

Katharine Hepburn :yar

[B.Tooke]

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (Talking about the yacht The True Love): "My, she was yar... "

 

Next: W.C. Fields: nil

[Emgee66]

The Bank Dick (1940)

 

The resale value of this car is going to be nil after this trip.

 

 

Next: Barbara Stanwyck: Hopsi