CraigM
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And there goes my theory!
Oh, of course. Though I still can’t place most of the clues… And it’s one of my favourite films. What a shit memory I have.
That just means it’s time to watch it again!
I mean, I watched it again within the last couple of years when I did my screwball comedy marathon.
Well done Courteious_D! My favorite comedy of all time featuring two of my favorite actors:
a feline fugitive from Brazil
A wild, man-maiming leopard escapes from the circus
a feather-trimmed negligee
Cary Grant has his clothes stolen so makes do with what he can. Fun fact, he ad-libbed a line stating sarcastically that he was gay, the first use of the word meaning homosexual used in film
bird calls
at dinner, Major Applegate (played by Charles Ruggles, who beyond his extensive acting career you may recognize as a voice in Rocky and Bullwinkle), tries to break the ice with his knowledge of bird calls
a one million dollar donation
David Huxley (Cary Grant) is ready to marry poorly in order to secure a donation to his museum before Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) clumsily steps in.
the third of four pairings
this is the third movie pairing Hepburn and Grant, with the fourth being the phenomenal The Philadelphia Story
a near fatal case of mistaken identity
the previously man-maiming leopard is mixed up with a gift of a tame leopard (made more tame by singing I Can’t Give you Anything but Love’) that Susan had received.
an intercostal clavicle
the bone that Huxley needed to complete his brontosaurus and which was stolen by the little dog George.
It is slapstick and hilarious and a movie that I have to watch no matter where in the film it is. If you haven’t seen it, you owe it to yourself to do so.
It really is a wonderful flick. Cary Grant lands on a beautiful combination of exasperation, resignation, and baffled, intrigued curiosity as Susan Vance works her magic.
OK, since Bringing Up Baby was the only set of movie elements I had on hand myself, I’ll need a moment to get thinking.
@BellaConfusione is fast out of the gate and never looks back!
It is indeed The Big Sleep, Howard Hawks’ famously convoluted 1946 noir. There’s genius all over this thing.
* Hothouse flowers: The invalid General Sternwood, Philip Marlowe’s employer, spends his days in a sultry greenhouse, surrounded by orchids. “Nasty things! Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.”
* Stormy weather: Sunny LA gives way to ominous thunderclaps, flashes of lightning, and drenching rain.
* A sexy bookworm: Marlowe and Dorothy Malone’s bookstore clerk find something to do off-screen during a well-timed cloudburst. The scene is an absolute classic.
* Horseplay: In another celebrated scene thick with innuendo, Bogart and Bacall discuss “horse racing.”
* The second of four pairings (h/t TommyTutone). After the success of To Have and Have Not, with everyone going nuts for Bogie and Bacall, additional scenes with them were shot for The Big Sleep to capitalize on it. Dark Passage followed in 1947, and Key Largo in '48.
I guess I’ll have to wait for another opportunity to work “A short shamus” into conversation.
Such a great film, I’ll need to rewatch that one very soon.
- Suitcases
- Hammer
- Table manners
- Demolition
- Tourists
Five Heads in a Duffle Bag?
Babel?
Wasn’t it 8 Heads In A Duffle Bag?
No quantity of heads in no duffle bags here.
Also not Babel.
For the record, I wanted to do this one some weeks ago, but couldn’t get some nice clues, and decided to go with Hot Shots instead. @Djscman is clearly better than me at finding smart clues!
Will do!
Great! You’ll tell me what’s going on with the dead driver. I may have watched that movie 5 or 6 times, and still haven’t figured out!
As for our new movie, I’ll go with Old Boy.
How the heck would I know, even Chandler had no idea.
It’s not Old Boy. I’ll be adding new clues once some of the Americans have woken up.
dtolman
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Your new clue requires me to type Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
