Post by peeves on Sept 30, 2021 14:42:31 GMT -5
Moments and scenes remembered from our local film houses the Capitol, The Park and the for a short time, The Community theatre on King Street. I was a regular in all as long as they lasted. The serials like Buck Rogers or The Iron Claw, The News of the World, reporting on WW2 news, which was hardly 'news' by the time shown in the Capitol.
Movies were one of the few entertainments available for us then, besides bowling(Not on Sunday), or the swimming pools.
I recall many memorable scenes or lines in some films that have become part of our lives or stand out for some reason or other. At least for me.
Some reading might as well ?
The earliest movie line that I recall ??, "Oh Beulah, peel me a grape." Mae West in "I'm No Angel", Paramount, 1933.
Or 'She Done Him Wrong', (1933) the movie's line "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"
"My Little Chickadee" W.C. Fields 1940.
"Wanna buy a duck?" Nah, none of you will remember that, but I recall Joe Penner's 1930s-40's radio and film audiences tag line that made it into films as in the animated in the Disney cartoon, "Mother Goose Goes Hollywood" (1938).
The oldest I saw as released?
Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942) Mowgli declares that he wants a "man tooth" to keep him safe from the tiger. First colour film I saw in the balcony of the Capitol Theatre. I think that I was 11 years old. I well recall the film as quite engrossing with thieves and treasure and animals galore.. Sabu was someone that kids could relate to.Disney film cartoons were also big at the time. Snow White et al.
"Alright Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" Sunset BLVD (1950)Didn't like the film, love the line for some reason???
Now I must admit that I saw many of these movies from that time period in re run or on late night T.V. since they predated my birth in '32 . Still, they left their mark.
"King Kong (1933) Quote: "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast." I have watched that film, my absolute favourite, over 20 times. Faye Ray and Kong still live on in memory as do the Tarzan movies of the time.
Who hasn't said or mimicked "I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too! - "The Wizard of Oz" (1939)
...and
“Henry… Henry Aldrich! Coming Mother!”the movies of the 1940s
"I'm Spartacus!" ..film Spartacus..1960 goes a mite back too
"You talkin' to me?" - Taxi Driver, 1976
"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." - The Godfather, 1972
One of the latest? Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 Indiana Jones shoots the sword fighter. Harrison Ford ended up getting really sick on set and could barely stand long enough to film it. It was an easy out in the circumstance
...and of course Forrest Gump (1994)
"My mama always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates." ---"Stupid is as stupid does."
But being a long time film buff I recall many of those iconic moments with fondness and later,with who ever I took as a date, like The Red Shoes a 1948 British drama film on my 16th birthday..I remember that film and Donna.
The Danny Kaye movie my dad took me to."Wonder Man" (1945) Dad was in the Navy. Danny Kaye movies always had tongue twisters. I used to try them
"I'm walking here"..Midnight Cowboy, A spontaneous line.
As Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight attempt to cross the street, a New York City taxi cab comes near hitting both actors. The car was not part of the film but the reaction was unplanned.
One of the most famous lines is, "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli," from the first Godfather movie — a line that was improvised
Good Will Hunting and Robin Williams making up the entire "dog farting" speech. Robin created more amazing improved scenes than anyone else that I know of in films.
"Frankly My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn" - Gone with the Wind ... I've used that one. 
" "I'll have what she's having." The 'Climax'. Meg Ryan's orgasm scene in "When Harry Met Sally" lasts only three minutes and that has lasted for the past 30 years.
Jaws (1975) - "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat". Still hear that damn shark warning background sound/music.
"I'm a baaaad boy." Very few readers now were probably alive when Lou Costello frequently mewled this on-screen apology, and we heard the "Who's on First" routine.
comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello,of the 1940s and early 1950's
There are many many more that I can recall...but do you have a recall from a film that has stuck in your head?
I'll never forget the shower scene from Psycho, or " Even a man who is pure in heart/and says his prayers by night/may become a wolf when the wolfs-bane blooms/and the autumn moon is bright." Maria Ouspenskaya as Maleva You guess the film...
