Tuesday Trivia: Nothing but quotes

1. “Don’t you believe what you read in all them newspapers. That’s the law talking there. They want us to look big so they gonna look big when they catch us.”
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

2. “I can’t stand for a person I respect to behave like a small, cruel boy. ”
Hint: Film adaptation of the work of a famous playwright,featuring three major stars–all now dead.
Solved by Melville (comment #15).

3. “What sharp little eyes you’ve got.”
Hint: The next line is “Wait ’til you get to my teeth.”
Solved by Proteus (comment #11).

4. “Oh, no, sir. I’m sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals.”
Solved by maurinsky (comment #2) and Evn (comment #3) at the same moment!

5. “The War Department promised me 180 men. They sent me eighteen. You are the eighteen… so each of you will have to do the work of ten men.”
Solved by Melanie (comment #8).

6. “Love, desire, ambition, faith… without them life is so much simpler.”
Hint: A science fiction classic.
Solved by Evn (comment #6).

7. “I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk.”
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

16 comments

  1. Melville says:

    #1 is Bonnie and Clyde.
    #7 is The Seventh Seal.

  2. maurinsky says:

    4. is Fraulein Maria in the Sound of Music

  3. Evn says:

    I believe #4 is The Sound of Music.

  4. TehipiteTom says:

    #5 is The Dirty Dozen-and-a-Half.

  5. deblipp says:

    Tom comes back and he forgets to bring the funny.

  6. Roberta says:

    I was late, and knew 1 and 4. So now I’m done. : p

  7. Melanie says:

    #5 is Rio Grande.

  8. Steve M. says:

    #1 is Bonnie and Clyde.
    #7 is The Seventh Seal.

    I think it would be amusing if #7 were Bonnie and Clyde and #1 were The Seventh Seal.

  9. Evn says:

    #6 is Invasion of the Body-Snatchers. I think.

  10. Proteus says:

    # 3 Thunderball

  11. Daven says:

    2. “Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolf”?
    6. “The Witches of Eastwick”?

    Taking shots in the dark here.

  12. Roberta says:

    I’m guessing (a stab-like guess) Alien. For 6.

  13. deblipp says:

    Sorry Daven and Roberta, nothing for your shots or stabs or whatever you took.

  14. Melville says:

    Is #2 Night of the Iguana? That “all now dead” makes me think you’re paying tribute to Deborah Kerr.

  15. deblipp says:

    Correct both on the movie and the reason for my choice. The other two stars, Ava Gardner and Richard Burton, are long gone.