msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) (02/08/86)
This is the second part of a two-part posting. You have to read the
first part to find out that Mark Leeper is the winner and see my
other remarks.
11. "Greetings, my friends! We are all interested in the future, for
that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
And remember, future events such as these will affect YOU, in the
future."
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1959); also titled GRAVE ROBBERS
FROM OUTER SPACE. (The introduction.) Criswell, as himself,
to you, the audience. I said the quotes were all from movies
I enjoyed watching; this is the only one where the reason
I enjoyed it was that it was hilariously bad. 2 responders
got the movie, and 1 guessed THINGS TO COME.
12. "I thought you were a newspaperman."
"Well, that doesn't include kidnapping your fiancee where I come from."
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940). George Sanders as Scott ffoliott [sic],
and Joel McCrae as Johnny Jones alias Huntley Haverstock.
This was apparently the easiest one to guess wrong; one responder
even gave two wrong guesses. Nobody got the movie. There were
2 guesses each of IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and THE FRONT PAGE, and 1
guess each of of HIS GIRL FRIDAY and THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. In none
of these does a male reporter consider kidnapping a woman to
whom he is engaged at the time.
13. "I'm not a cab driver -- I'm a coffeepot!"
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE again. Garry Owen as the cab driver,
to Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster and the world at large.
2 responders got it, and 1 guessed YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU.
14. "Oh, very well. If I were interesting myself in this case, which
I am not, my first move would be to follow that man there."
THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION (1976). Nicol Williamson [sic] as
Sherlock Holmes, to Robert Duvall as Dr. John Watson and
Alan Arkin as Dr. Sigmund Freud. "That man there" is Joel Grey.
3 responders got the movie.
15. "It flies like a truck."
"Good. What is a truck?"
THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI: ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION (1984).
[That's the title I saw it under, but I have evidence that it may
have been shown under shorter titles, so I accepted BUCKAROO BANZAI.]
Peter Weller as Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, and Carl Lumbly as John Parker.
4 responders got this one also.
16. "It's sort of a cause: I want everybody to be smart. I want them
to be as smart as they can be. A world full of ignorant people
is too dangerous to live in."
BORN YESTERDAY again. William Holden as Paul Varel, to
Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn. No responses.
17. "My density has brought me to you. Oh! What I meant to say was,
I'm your density."
BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985), of course. Crispin Glover as
George McFly, to Lea Thompson as Lorraine Baines.
Again 4 responders got it.
18. "No, no, no reading up, Mr. Jones. I want you just as you are.
What Europe needs is a fresh, unused mind."
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT again. Harry Davenport as Mr. Powers,
to Joel McCrae as Johnny Jones. No responses.
19. "On the contrary, you were most attractive, and as for forbidding,
you were anything but. But you were also a little the worse,
or better, for wine, and there are rules about that."
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940). James Stewart as Macaulay Connor,
to Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord. 2 responders got it.
20. "STOP -- THAT -- TRAIN!"
THE DRESSER (1983). Albert Finney as "Sir", to the driver of
a train just leaving the station without him and his company.
2 responders got the movie.
21. "The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as
the party of the first part."
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935). Groucho Marx as Otis B. Driftwood,
to Chico Marx as Fiorello. 2 responders got the movie, and
1 guessed PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE.
22. "The password will be
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch."
BARBARELLA (1968). David Hemmings as Dildano, to Prof. Ping.
Nobody got it, but 1 responder wrongly guessed MONTY PYTHON
AND THE HOLY GRAIL.
23. "The witnesses will refrain from making jokes. The attorneys will
provide the wisecracks."
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959). Joseph Welch as the judge.
He later became a judge in real life, incidentally.
No responses.
24. "There's been a lot of tea about lately. They've captured India,
or something."
1984 (1984, not 1956; and not 1985, which was the date of
general release in North America). Suzanna Hamilton as Julia,
to John Hurt as Winston Smith. 1 responder got it.
25. "They will always belong to me, or to a man like me. Art belongs to
those who can appreciate it."
THE TRAIN (1965). Paul Scofield as Col. von Waldheim, to Burt
Lancaster as La Biche. No responses. Now, if I'd cross-posted
to net.railroad ...
26. "This scene's supposed to be in a saloon, but the censor cut it out.
It'll play just as well this way."
NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK (1941). W.C. Fields, stepping
out of the ROLE of himself to BE himself (got that?), talking
to you, the audience. --And he's telling the truth about the
censor, too! No responses.
27. "We use the guillotine in this country. I have always suspected that
the blade causes no more than a slight tickling sensation on the back
of the neck. It is only a guess, of course. I hope none of you ever
finds out for certain."
CHARADE again. Same people as in #1.
The same 2 responders got it.
28. "When you say 'others', do you mean-- others?"
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE again. Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster, to
Josephine Hull as Abby Brewster and Jean Adair as Martha Brewster.
No responses.
29. "Yes sir. I know it makes a terrible noise, excellency. It was
installed for just that purpose."
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966). Jacques Marin as the chief guard
at the Kleber-Lafayette Museum, to an exalted personage on the phone.
No responses.
30. "You followed me!"
"No I didn't. You went to the embassy, and I came HERE, to my HOTEL."
ARABESQUE again. Sophie Loren as Yasmin Azir, and Gregory
Peck as David Pollock. Nobody got it; 1 responder guessed MISSING.
Mark Brader
"Let's get outta here!"