Identify the movie for each quote:
Hints:
(1) Oldest film: 1933. Most recent film: 1998
(2) Four movies have two quotes each.
(3) One quote is from a short animated film.
(4) Two quotes are from foreign language films.
Give your answers in the comments!
- “I’m shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here.”
- “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
- “Were they all done for your mother’s benefit?”/”No. No, I would not say ‘benefit.’”
- “Oh, you are sick!”
- “I gave her my love – she gave me a pen.”
- “I’m a little short on cash, but if you don’t mind just appetizers I’d love to take you to dinner sometime.”
- “He has his father’s eyes.”
- “I just went gay all of a sudden!”
- “Made it ma – top o’ the world!”
- “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”
- “Where are your hands?”/“Between two pillows.”
- “We all have it coming, kid.”
- “I wanna be Black…”
- “Greet the morning with a breath of fire…”
- “Asa nisi masa.”
- “No, you’re Don Francisco’s sister.”
- “Don’t drive angry.”
- “There’s no deceit in the cauliflower.”
- “Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for.”
- “You’re an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.”
- “D-d-d-d-demon!”
- “Twas beauty killed the beast.”
- “You’re lit from within, Tracy. You’ve got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.”
- “I am big – it was the pictures that got small.”
- “We rob banks.”
- “I should ask the man whether he was a tree-frog.”
- “Mein Führer! I can walk!”
- “My complication had a little complication.”
- “Don’t be a luddy-duddy! Don’t be a mooncalf! Don’t be a jabbernowl!”
- “It’s like no cheese I’ve ever tasted.”
- “We felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us.”
- “A boy’s best friend is his mother.”
- “How much do you need?”
- “It’s the end of the world…”
- “Stop being taller than me.”
- “You know, I’m a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that hump.”
- “Ethne – your feather.”
- “It’s showtime!”
- “I am not an animal. I am a human being!”
- “You want me to hold the chicken?”/“I want you to hold it between your knees.”
- “What have the Romans ever done for us?”
- “Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?”
- “Plastics.”
- “Well of course we talk – don’t ev’rybody?”
- “He was some kind of a man.”
- “Match me, Sidney.”
- “It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever.”
- “That rug really tied the room together.”
- “He can’t be a floozie. You’re a floozie.”
- “Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.”
1. Casablanca
2. Jaws
8. Bringing Up Baby
9. White Heat
10. Sunset Boulevard
19. It’s a Wonderful Life
22. King Kong
23. The Philadelphia Story
24. Sunset Boulevard
25. Bonnie and Clyde
27. Doctor Strangelove
32. Psycho
33. It could be a lot of things, but I’m for It’s a Wonderful Life again
43. The Graduate
44. Singin’ in the Rain
Some of the others are familiar but I can’t place them!
Excellent, Melanie! Thanks for playing!
1. Casablanca
2. Jaws
3. Harold and Maude
4. Eraserhead
5. Say Anything
6. ?
7. Rosemary’s Baby
8. Bringing Up Baby
9. White Heat
10. Sunset Blvd.
11. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
12. Unforgiven
13. ?
14. ?
15. 8 1/2
16. Love and Death
17. Groundhog Day
18. The Heartbreak Kid
19. It’s a Wonderful Life
20. Apocalypse Now
21. ?
22. King Kong (1933)
23. The Philadelphia Story
24. Sunset Blvd.
25. Bonnie and Clyde
26. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
27. Dr. Strangelove
28. Brazil
29. The Bank Dick
30. ?
31. Raising Arizona
32. Psycho
33. ?
34. ?
35. A Hard Day’s Night
36. Young Frankenstein
37. The Four Feathers
38. The Incredibles
39. The Elephant Man
40. Five Easy Pieces
41. Life of Brian
42. Airplane!
43. The Graduate
44. Singin’ in the Rain
45. Touch of Evil
46. Sweet Smell of Success
47. ?
48. The Big Lebowski
49. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
50. Pulp Fiction
Rodrigo: Excellent!
Going with the unanswered numbers…
6) ?
13) The Jerk(?)
14) Harold and Maude
21) ?
30) Wallace and Gromit!
33) It is definitely It’s a Wonderful Life
34) Independence Day (?)
47) This is Spinal Tap
Orin:
Really good. For 13 I was thinking of The King of Comedy (Sandra Bernhardt delivers the line), and for 34 I was thinking of the diner scene in Hitchcock’s The Birds. But these may not be the only movies where those lines are spoken!
I also put this game on my Facebook page. Of all the folks responding, you were the only one to get the Wallace and Gromit reference (from “A Grand Day Out”).
John B.