Movie Quotes

[JD Baillie]

Can't tell where it's at answer wise, but here's mine:

"Do up that button man, where do you think you are?"


JD

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Since you've chickened out, Jon... ( ) here's one for anybody... how about my tagline?

Not chickened out Old Boy, merely thinking of "bon riposte"...

How's this grab ya...?

1. "What manner of dress is this, son?"

"Harith, Father."

First hint..."He likes your lemonade"
Second hint..."There is no gold in Aqaba"

What a giveaway!

2. "Pot that fellow, there's a good man"

Hint: "Hookie, that's a flogging offense".

3. A bit convoluted but that goes with the literary territory:

"From now on, I don't want anyone to come in to see me while I'm here. Is that clear?"
"Yes".
"Will that be all?".
"Yes".
"What shall I say to the people who do come to see you while you're here?"
"Tell them I'm in and ask them to wait".
"Yes, sir. For how long?"
"Until I've left."
"And then what shall I do with them?"
"I don't care".
"May I send them in to see you after you've left?"
"Yes".
"But you won't be here then, will you?"
"No".

Originally posted by herr-pear
(In a Hollywood German accent):

"By the power invested in me by the Kaiser I pronounce you man and wife. Continue with the execution."

Errrrr, I'll take a stab at that; would it concern Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer getting married on the Louisa just before it hits a .45 primed oxygen cylinder?

R.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Richard Farrant
Flight Officer David Campbell in The Longest Day


Richard

Harumph...Not Flight Officer...Flying Officer.

I do say, Old Boy, Flights were NCOs, F/Os were Officers and well bred, you know.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by FV623
Ah! Snorkers!

R.

Isn't it..."Ah! Snorkers, good Oh..." to Denholm Elliot, et al, from Stanley Baker in the wardroom of the Compass Rose.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by JD Baillie
Can't tell where it's at answer wise, but here's mine:

"Do up that button man, where do you think you are?"


JD

OK, JD, racking my brains, no reference material...I'm thinking "A Bridge Too Far", towards the end...

Could be dead wrong, but the bell's are ringing in my head about the reference you've posted.

I'll sleep on it.

Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
Not chickened out Old Boy, merely thinking of "bon riposte"...

How's this grab ya...?

1. "What manner of dress is this, son?"

"Harith, Father."

First hint..."He likes your lemonade"
Second hint..."There is no gold in Aqaba"

What a giveaway!

Well, perhaps the first ever LRDG member on a Brough Superior, John Hume Ross in the RAF and then Thomas Edward Shaw in the Tank Corps.

2. "Pot that fellow, there's a good man"

Hint: "Hookie, that's a flogging offense".

Hmmmmm.
"Stop throwing; those bloody spears; at me"
Possibly from the work set in Africa starring Maurice J. Micklewhite.

3. A bit convoluted but that goes with the literary territory:

"From now on, I don't want anyone to come in to see me while I'm here. Is that clear?"
"Yes".
"Will that be all?".
"Yes".
"What shall I say to the people who do come to see you while you're here?"
"Tell them I'm in and ask them to wait".
"Yes, sir. For how long?"
"Until I've left."
"And then what shall I do with them?"
"I don't care".
"May I send them in to see you after you've left?"
"Yes".
"But you won't be here then, will you?"
"No".

Ah, this could be a 2T and job.

"It's a wonder you're still alive. Will someone get this big walking carpet out of my way?"

R.

Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
Isn't it..."Ah! Snorkers, good Oh..." to Denholm Elliot, et al, from Stanley Baker in the wardroom of the Compass Rose.

Exactly so,

But what was the name on the tin. . . . . . . . . .

R.

Originally posted by Richard Farrant
Correct

and Oddball also makes another remark something like
" a Sherman gives you that edge"

no doubt someone will remember the actual quote

Nope, that is it.

"its a mark six...and we've got it by the ass."

R.

[herr-pear]

"By the power invested in me by the Kaiser I pronounce you mand and wife. Continue with the execution!"

Originally posted by FV623
Errrrr, I'll take a stab at that; would it concern Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer getting married on the Louisa just before it hits a .45 primed oxygen cylinder?

R.

Exactly so!

[Greg Beeston]

From now on, I don't want anyone to come in to see me while I'm here. Is that clear?"
"Yes".
"Will that be all?".
"Yes".
"What shall I say to the people who do come to see you while you're here?"
"Tell them I'm in and ask them to wait".
"Yes, sir. For how long?"
"Until I've left."
"And then what shall I do with them?"
"I don't care".
"May I send them in to see you after you've left?"
"Yes".
"But you won't be here then, will you?"
"No".

Would this be from catch 22
This would be Major Major Major Major to his underling

Originally posted by herr-pear
"By the power invested in me by the Kaiser I pronounce you man and wife. Continue with the execution!"

Exactly so!

Brilliant film and shows another depth to Humphrey Go-Kart, I do believe we have another Hepburn too in C.Janeway/K.Mulgrew!

R.

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

Originally black and white. Later a colour version.

- So they call me "Concentration Camp Erhardt"?
- We do the concentration and the Poles do the camping?

And another one (singing):

- Gonna crush Poland, then I´ll take over France,
I´ll cross that English channel and kick them in their pants.

Greetings from a still sunny Stockholm.

Stellan

P.S. I don´t recall the exact lines but it was somewhat like this:

- I höpe zhat you will cööperate - otherwize I have to hand you över to zhe SS and you vill maybee tortured.

[Keith Webb]

Originally posted by Vets Dottir
I know who said that ... but I'm not telling

Better tell them, then...:idea:

2. "Pot that fellow, there's a good man"

From the movie ZULU.

An interesting note, Pte. Hook was actually a Temperance man and had signed the pledge.

I've never seen anything like it in all my life

Spoken by RSM Britain in "They were not divided" (1950).

RSM Brittain played in a number of movies including three in which he played himself.

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld


"What manner of dress is this, son?"

"Harith, Father."

First hint..."He likes your lemonade"
Second hint..."There is no gold in Aqaba"

Sounds like "Lawrence of Arabia" to me.

Stellan

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Since you've chickened out, Jon... ( ) here's one for anybody... how about my tagline?

Could it be "The Hill" (with Sean Connery) if that is the English title.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by FV623
Exactly so,

But what was the name on the tin. . . . . . . . . .

R.

Hmmm...

Player's Navy Cut...?

Lyle's Black Treacle...?

Arran Provisions Scottish Orange Marmalade...?

C'mon, FV623, give over.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Stellan Bojerud
Could it be "The Hill" (with Sean Connery) if that is the English title.

Naw, V_D got it, THE WAY AHEAD (1944, David Niven, Stanley Holloway et al, excellent propaganda film!).

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by FV623
Well, perhaps the first ever LRDG member on a Brough Superior, John Hume Ross in the RAF and then Thomas Edward Shaw in the Tank Corps.

Hmmmmm.
"Stop throwing; those bloody spears; at me"
Possibly from the work set in Africa starring Maurice J. Micklewhite.

Ah, this could be a 2T and job.

"It's a wonder you're still alive. Will someone get this big walking carpet out of my way?"

R.

OK, Glowworm...you being a veritable font and cornicopia of knowledge, what was the plate number of the last Brough Superior ridden by Shaw/Ross/Lawrence?

Hint...it's not the same as the one in the movie.

BTW, Micklewhite doesn't raise as much Caine as he used to.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Art Johnson
From the movie ZULU.

An interesting note, Pte. Hook was actually a Temperance man and had signed the pledge.

Related and equally interesting: when I was in Wales in 2001 with Mrs WB, we went to the museum for the 24th Regiment of Foot at Brecon. Fascinating place, with artifacts from Rorke's Drift you can actually touch! The museum curator told me they won't sell the ZULU movie in the museum because of the way it portrays Hook; instead they sell ZULU DAWN.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by FV623
"It's a wonder you're still alive. Will someone get this big walking carpet out of my way?"

You, talking to me, while trying to get Veare out of your face?

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Naw, V_D got it, THE WAY AHEAD (1944, David Niven, Stanley Holloway et al, excellent propaganda film!).

Yes, re-reading that post I saw it now. But there were so much propagation QRM in the message.

Used to be used with that when I was in the R Sw Sigs - but that is 40 years ago (I am good at all things people never asks for nowadays - for example stoking a steamship).

But this movie quiz is fun! Thanks!

Stellan

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Related and equally interesting: when I was in Wales in 2001 with Mrs WB, we went to the museum for the 24th Regiment of Foot at Brecon. Fascinating place, with artifacts from Rorke's Drift you can actually touch! The museum curator told me they won't sell the ZULU movie in the museum because of the way it portrays Hook; instead they sell ZULU DAWN.

Interesting point..."Zulu Dawn", produced after "Zulu", but historically occurring just prior to "Zulu" was somewhat influenced in its production by the untimely death of Stanley Baker.

The "Zulu Dawn" film was a critical and commercial flop.

"Zulu" took considerable liberties with historical fact (including Henry Hook's incorrect image)...i.e. both Baker and Caine wear uniforms from the turn of the century and the troops wear Slade-Wallace pouches rather than the authentic 1871 Valise Pattern.

Also, incorrectly, the 24th of Foot was called "The South Wales Borderers"...this re-naming didn't occur until 1881, two years after the Zulu War, when the regiment was properly known as the "The Warwickshires".

Wow!...Sorry about that...I've really digressed...but this era is one of my study periods...18 books in my library about these events in 1879.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by JD Baillie
Can't tell where it's at answer wise, but here's mine:

"Do up that button man, where do you think you are?"


JD

Has anyone come up with the answer to JD's post?

It's bugging the hell out of me...the quote is lurking somewhere in the back of my feeble brain.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
Wow!...Sorry about that...I've really digressed...but this era is one of my study periods...18 books in my library about these events in 1879.

's'alright, Jon me lad... we know you old guys are wont to wander about in the fogs of time once in a while...

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Stellan Bojerud
Used to be used with that when I was in the R Sw Sigs - but that is 40 years ago...

Oh gawd, another sigs type! :

Stellan, we have at least three sigs people here anyway who can communicate quite effectively in morse... can you, still? If so, I'm putting out a call for one of you to start a thread here which shall be nothing but code - no grammatical English. A hell of a challenge for the rest of us! I dare you...

... good at all things people never ask for nowadays - for example stoking a steamship...

A stoker, eh? Fascinating profession, but I wouldn't want to be one of the black gang when the torpedo hits... [/QUOTE]

Do up that button man, where do you think you are?"

I believe that quote is also from ZULU when the Colour Sergeant is addressing a man on the Firing Line.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

An easy one:

"It takes an Irishman to play the pipes!"

Title (of course), name of principal, object of comment and significance, please.


A little more obscure:

"Home is the sailor, home from the sea..."

Betcha won't get this one, but I have the movie in VHS, so I'm one-up onya...