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Post by Rufus-T on Jun 12, 2020 17:50:57 GMT
When I see Sidney Poitier's photo, I can't help but think of that great come back line in "In the Heat of the Night". List other great come back lines in film.
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 12, 2020 17:59:19 GMT
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER:
Nurse Preen: Oh my -- you mustn't eat candy, Mr. Whiteside ... it's very bad for you.
Sheridan Whiteside: My great aunt Jennifer ate a whole box of candy every day of her life. She lived to be 102 and when she'd been dead three days she looked better than you do NOW!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 12, 2020 18:02:06 GMT
WORKING GIRL
Katherine Parker: Tess, this is business. Let's just bury the hatchet, okay?
Tess McGill: You know where you can bury your hatchet? Now get your bony ass outta my sight!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 12, 2020 18:05:01 GMT
CASABLANCAUgarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 12, 2020 18:07:31 GMT
CASABLANCA Major Strasser: You give him credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We mustn't underestimate "American blundering". I was with them when they "blundered" into Berlin in 1918.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 12, 2020 18:08:14 GMT
SPARTACUS
Batiatus: But, my dear, great, all-conquering Marcus Licinius Crassus... what if it is Spartacus who crosses the battlefield, looking for you?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: In such circumstances, I have no doubt you will be helping him.
PLANET OF THE APES
Taylor: "How in the hell did this upside down civilization get started?"
Dr. Zaius: "You may well call it upside down since you occupy its lowest level and deservedly so."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 12, 2020 18:13:53 GMT
THE MALTESE FALCON
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.
Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 12, 2020 18:15:09 GMT
THE MALTESE FALCON Wilmer Cook: Keep on riding me and they're gonna be picking iron out of your liver. Sam Spade: The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
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Post by london777 on Jun 12, 2020 18:18:17 GMT
Out of the Past (1947) dir: Jacques Tourneur
Kathie (Jane Greer): I don't want to die.
Jeff: (Robert Mitchum) Neither do I, baby, but if I have to, I'm going to die last.
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Kathie: I think we deserve a break.
Jeff: We deserve each other.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 12, 2020 18:18:44 GMT
Wilson : I guess they named a lot of that Southern trash after old Stonewall. Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey : Who'd they name you after? Or do you know?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 12, 2020 18:57:05 GMT
CITY SLICKERS Mitch Robbins: Hi Curly. Killed anyone today? Curly: The day ain't over yet...
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 12, 2020 18:58:09 GMT
THE PROFESSIONALS:
J.W. Grant (Ralph Bellamy): You bastard!
Rico (Lee Marvin): Yes, Sir. In my case an accident of birth. But you, Sir, you're a self-made man.
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 12, 2020 19:01:41 GMT
M*A*S*H
Hotlips O'Houlihan: [to Father Mulcahy, referring to Hawkeye] I wonder how a degenerated person like that could have reached a position of responsibility in the Army Medical Corps!
Father Mulcahy: [looks up from his Bible] He was drafted.
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 12, 2020 19:05:01 GMT
ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES:
Soapy (Billy Halop): Hey! Call a fair game or I'll slap you right in the kisser!
Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney): You'll slap me? You slap me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize!
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 12, 2020 19:15:38 GMT
MURDER MY SWEET:
Lindsay Marriott: I'm afraid I don't like your manner.
Philip Marlowe: Yeah -- I've had complaints about it, but it keeps getting worse.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 12, 2020 19:16:07 GMT
Bartender at officers club : This is a bar for British officers! T.E. Lawrence : That's all right. We're not particular.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 12, 2020 19:18:22 GMT
THE THIN MAN Nora Charles: You know, that sounds like an interesting case. Why don't you take it? Nick Charles: I haven't the time. I'm much too busy seeing that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 12, 2020 19:22:17 GMT
THE BIG SLEEP:
General Sternwood: How do you like your brandy, sir? Philip Marlowe: In a glass.
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 12, 2020 19:25:06 GMT
DOUBLE INDEMNITY
Phyllis: I think you're rotten. Walter Neff: I think you're swell - so long as I'm not your husband.
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 12, 2020 19:27:37 GMT
SUNSET BLVD.
Betty Schaefer: I've been hoping to run into you. Joe Gillis: What for? To recover that knife you stuck in my back?
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