Identify This Movie – UPDATED with answers

Okay, folks. Following Beck and Mad, I am listing quotes from ten of my favorite movies. Identify them if you can. Fortunately for you, my tastes are low-brow and old-fashioned.

1. “Was you ever bit by a dead bee?”

Walter Brennan’s persistent question in To Have or Have Not. Genni got it right.

2. “This is true love. You think this happens every day?”

The Princess Bride, of course. Only the hardest heart could scorn this movie. Chrissy got it right first.

3. “You’ve got taste in clothes, taste in food….”

“And taste in women. I like your flavor.”

Angela knew that this pleasingly cheesy line was from the seduction scene on the train in North by Northwest.  

4. “In the old days, they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker. Any of those bikini bombshells you’re always watching worth a red-hot poker?”

Sherri was the only one to recognize this quote from Rear Window, one of the best movies ever.  There are a lot of Hitchcock movies on this list, and I had to actually stop myself from adding more. 

5. “What would you have me do? Look at my men. Their courage hangs by a thread. If this is to be our end, then I would have them make such an end as to be worthy of remembrance.”

Karen got The Two Towers.  I love the LOTR movies, and this was the best of the three.  Gives me goosebumps. 

6. “I sort of wish you hadn’t.”

“What?”

“Divorced me. It makes a fellow lose faith. It gives him a feeling he wasn’t wanted.”

“That’s what divorces are for.”

Sue and Beck got His Girl Friday, but Beck’s comment drifted off into the ether of lost comments.  I suspect it may be the hidden cause behind the hole in the ozone layer. This is an excellent movie, full of fast-paced dialogue that Hollywood can’t quite muster today.

7. “I really wouldn’t care to scratch your surface, Mr. Kralik, because I know exactly what I’d find. Instead of a heart, a handbag. Instead of a soul, a suitcase. And instead of an intellect, a cigarette lighter which doesn’t work.”

Rachel was the first to say Shop Around the Corner.  If you have never seen it, get it now.  Now, now, now.  And curl up on the couch with a cup of cocoa and someone snuggle-able.

8. “She talked about the day you met, and she cursed it. But then I saw her remember how happy you were together, before the Bishop’s curse. And her eyes glowed. No, she glowed. She loves you more than life, Captain. She’s had to.”

JulieC got this one first. I have loved LadyHawke since I was a teen. I can’t help myself.

9. “Heroin. Peppermint flavored heroin.”

Andrea Jennine was the first to guess this one. Charade is a delightful suspense movie starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.  You may have noticed my list is a little Cary Grant heavy.

10. “Hugging’s very different. Hugging, that involves arms and hands, and leaning is whole bodies moving in, like this. Leaning involves wanting… and accepting.”

Andrea Jennine also was the first to get While You Were Sleeping.  It’s one of my favorite romantic Christmas movies, after Shop Around the Corner and It’s a Wonderful Life.