The Silver Screen Oasis

That's one line Lorne didn't get to say in BONANZA. "Hoss, take off your pantyhouse, damn it!"

"Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions" -- travel agent to Harper during the Antarctica sequence of Angels in America.

There are so many good lines in that mini-series.

Just for Valentine's Day:

Are you tender, Morris? You can have me if you say "yes."

-- Kate Palmer (Lee Remick) to Morris Brummel (George Segal) in NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY

Also for Valentine's Day: "All I ever wanted was to love you." I don't even remember what movie that line is in. A young girl says it. When I saw it years ago, my heart just opened up to her. Simplicity can say so much.

I was watching The lady Vanishes yesterday morning again and was really struck by how funny the film is. There are all these throwaway lines whizzing around like bullets, and you have to be quick to catch them. A couple of the more political ones really surprised me, especially this one, spoken by Miss Froy after a rather cutting comment from someone about the country they are in:

Miss Froy: I never think you should judge any country by its politics. After all, we English are quite honest by nature, aren't we?

This one also struck me very funny:

Dr. Hartz: And I am Dr. Egon Hartz; you may have heard of me.
Gilbert: Not the brain surgeon?
Dr. Hartz: Yes, the same.
Gilbert: Yes, you flew over to England the other day and operated on one of our cabinet ministers.
Dr. Hartz: Oh, yes.
Gilbert: Tell me, did you find anything?

The dialogue in "Lady" is exceptionally witty. It reminds me of some of those sophisticated British plays!

It had so much wit, and none of it was outward, but instead sort of throwaway comments. I can't imagine that the British Board of Censors would have let that first line slip through if they'd really understood it, especially at the time the film was made. They were on the lookout for and worried about political comments at that point in time. Amazing that it got through, calling the British politicians dishonest. It's worded so that it easily slips past, but I caught it this time and howled at how bold it was.

Thanks for sharing that "The Lady Vanishes" ... I can clearly see what you are talking about! JackF.

Thanks kingme. I mean Rita!

I just heard a line that has completely escaped me for YEARS. I swear I never heard it before. From Meet Me in St. Louis:

Katie: "I'm due at my sister's at 7:00."

Anna: "Something wrong at your sister's?"

Katie: "Having trouble with her husband. Him being a man."

In "DEVIL DOLL" Raffaela Ottiano says of a poor victim:


( 4 March 1888 - 18 August 1942 )

She's an in-bred peasant half-wit!!"

SHE said that? If anyone is inbred in the movie.... um... I'd say it was Ottiano's character!

From the FASTEST GUN ALIVE ... 1956 Movie that I watched today on TCM

Lou Glover: Must give you a funny feeling to look at your own grave.
Dora Temple: What's down there, Lou?
Lou Glover: Oh, just a coffin full of stones and the reputation of the fastest gun alive.
Dora Temple: And the gun?
George Temple: That's down there, too.
Dora Temple: Well, I guess that takes care of everything.
George Temple: I guess we can go home now.

From Me.

This is a classic ... pure classic piece of writing ... I just loved it!
One of the best!

From The Teahouse of the August Moon ... 1956 Classic

Sakini ... Pain make man think. Thought make man wise. Wisdom make life endurable.

I just love this! Sakini played by Brando.