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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Apr 19, 2024 6:02:43 GMT
It’s a bitter little world full of sad surprises, and you don’t go around letting people hurt you. — from Hollow Triumph (1947) (Joan Bennet’s character)
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Apr 19, 2024 18:06:01 GMT
From Double Indemnity (1944):
Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck): I'm a native Californian. Born right here in Los Angeles.
Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray): They say all native Californians come from Iowa.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Apr 20, 2024 17:37:29 GMT
From I Walk Alone (1947):
Nick Palestro (Marc Lawrence): For a buck, you'd double-cross your own mother.
Skinner (Mickey Knox): Why not? She'd do the same to me.
Alexis Richardson (Kristine Miller): I'm Mrs. Alexis Richardson.
Frankie Madison (Burt Lancaster): You say that like it was spelled in capital letters.
Noll Turner (Kirk Douglas): Sure, that's why men take women to dinner - to have someone to talk about themselves to.
Frankie Madison: Don't worry about me, kid. I just got outta prison, not college.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 21, 2024 0:49:17 GMT
ZolotoyRetriever, I'm really enjoying your trips down "noir alley" to summon the tough, terse and yet poetic dialogue echoing from its walls.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Apr 21, 2024 1:36:03 GMT
ZolotoyRetriever, I'm really enjoying your trips down "noir alley" to summon the tough, terse and yet poetic dialogue echoing from its walls.
*I'm watching Born to Kill (1947) tonight on TCM. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 21, 2024 3:33:50 GMT
ZolotoyRetriever , I'm really enjoying your trips down "noir alley" to summon the tough, terse and yet poetic dialogue echoing from its walls.
*I'm watching Born to Kill (1947) tonight on TCM. Those are gold. Sometimes I'll sit through entire films I've seen multiple times just for his remarks and backstories about the films and their makers. |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Apr 21, 2024 3:41:05 GMT
Speaking of "noir alley," I catch a lot of the noir films on TCM hosted by noir expert Eddie Muller. I really enjoy the films, as well as his intro and outro comments. Those films often have some real zingers in the dialogue department. I think the script writers had a load of fun with them, lol.
*I'm watching Born to Kill (1947) tonight on TCM. Those are gold. Sometimes I'll sit through entire films I've seen multiple times just for his remarks and backstories about the films and their makers. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 21, 2024 13:59:49 GMT
Those are gold. Sometimes I'll sit through entire films I've seen multiple times just for his remarks and backstories about the films and their makers. Yes, I've come across those. Sometimes, I'll check the YouTuber's list and, spotting some I've missed, will do an hour-long mini-binge of Eddie's intros/outros. |
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 21, 2024 14:48:29 GMT
The Woman On the Beach "Go on, say it: I'm a tramp. You're just finding that out?"Chinatown "You see, Mr. Gittes, most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they're capable of ...anything." That Noah Cross quote is one of the scariest, chilling things ever said in or out of a movie. |
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 21, 2024 16:15:18 GMT
Driftwood: All right, I'll read it to you. Can you hear?
Fiorello: I haven't heard anything yet. Did you say anything?
Driftwood: I haven't said anything worth hearing.
Fiorello: Well, that's-a why I didn't hear anything.
Driftwood: That's why I didn't say anything. ------ A Night At The Opera
Nora: What did you get me for Christmas. I hope I won’t like it.
Nick: You’ll have to like it. The man at the aquarium said he wouldn’t take them back. –The Thin Man
When it is announced that the sarcophagus of the Chinese King has arrived in San Francisco, Jimmy Wong (Keye Luke) quips, “And a Chinese archeological expedition is digging up the grave of George Washington in exchange.” – Phantom of Chinatown
“I was a member of the Foreign Office operatic society. Do you know I once played Pooh-Bah to the Foreign Secretary’s Ko-Ko?” – Rex Harrison in Night Train to Munich
“Of all the 14-karat saps. Starting out on a caper with a woman and a dog.” - Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra
“If I were not mad, I could have helped you. Whatever you had done, I could have pitied and protected you. But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart!” – Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight
Inigo: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.
Westley: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die. - The Princess Bride
"I'm just a hack writer who drinks too much and falls in love with girls." - Joseph Cotton, The Third Man
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 21, 2024 23:43:20 GMT
Chinatown"You see, Mr. Gittes, most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they're capable of ...anything." That Noah Cross quote is one of the scariest, chilling things ever said in or out of a movie. Naturally enough, it's great dialogue to begin with, and Huston's delivery gives it that extra measure of cold ruthlessness. Drawling the line without losing his uniquely clipped diction, each word comes like a jab from a boxer until the final one: a combination of hiss and growl. Like many great directors, he was evidently something of a ham, and I mean that in the best sense of the word. He demonstrated his performing chops amply over the years. |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Apr 22, 2024 5:26:45 GMT
Doghouse6, I loved his cameo appearance in Treasure of the Sierra Madre, where he played the un-named American guy in Tampico whom Humphrey Bogart's character (Dobbs) was repeatedly hitting up for money:
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