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Movie Quote of the Day – Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936 (dir. Frank Capra)
Longfellow Deeds: People around here are funny. They work so hard at living they forget how to live.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Farewell to Arms, 1932 (dir. Frank Borzage)
Catherine Barkley: Oh, darling. . .I’m going to die. Don’t let me die.
Lieutenant Frederic Henry: Cat!
Catherine Barkley: Take me in your arms, hold me tight. Don’t let me go.
Lieutenant Frederic Henry: Catherine.
Catherine Barkley: It’s dark out there alone. I don’t want to leave you anymore. I’ve been alone so much.
Lieutenant Frederic Henry: You can’t die. You’re too brave to die. You’re a fine girl. A brave girl.
Catherine Barkley: Yes. . .I. . . am a brave girl.
Lieutenant Frederic Henry: Whatever happens, you’ll not be afraid.
Catherine Barkley: I’ll not be afraid.
Lieutenant Frederic Henry: We’ve never been apart. Really. Not since we met.
Catherine Barkley: Not since we met.
Lieutenant Frederic Henry: We never can be.
Catherine Barkley: Never parted.
Lieutenant Frederic Henry: In life and in death. Say it, Cat!
Catherine Barkley: In life and in death, we’ll never be parted.
Lieutenant Frederic Henry: You do believe that? Don’t you, Cat?
Catherine Barkley: I believe it . . .and I’m not afraid.
Movie Quote of the Day – Morocco, 1930 (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
Tom Brown: What in the name of 10,000 corporals did you come to a country like this for anyways?
Amy Jolly: I understand that men are never asked why they entered the Foreign Legion. . .
Tom Brown: That’s right. They never asked me and if they had I wouldn’t have told. When I crashed the Legion, I ditched the past.
Amy Jolly: There’s a foreign legion of women, too. But we have no uniforms, no flags, and no medals when we are brave; no wound stripes when we are hurt.
Tom Brown: Look here, is there anything I can do to help you?
Amy Jolly: No. I’ve thought that before. Or, do you think you can restore my faith in men?
Tom Brown: Not me. You got the wrong man for that! Anybody who has faith in me is a sucker.
Amy Jolly: You better go now. . .I am beginning to like you.
Tom Brown: I’ve told women about everything a man can say. I’m going to tell you something I’ve never told a woman before: I wish I’d met you ten years ago.
Movie Quote of the Day – Design For Living, 1933 (dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
Tom Chambers: That’s one way of meeting the situation. Shipping clerk comes home, finds missus with boarder. He breaks dishes. It’s pure burlesque. Then there’s another way. Intelligent artist returns unexpectedly, finds treacherous friends, both discuss the pros and cons of the situation in grownup dialogue. High-class comedy, enjoyed by everybody.
George Curtis: There’s a third way. I’ll kick your teeth out and tear your head off and beat some decency into you!
Tom Chambers: Cheap melodrama. Very dull.
Movie Quote of the Day – Ball of Fire, 1941 (dir. Howard Hawks)
Prof. Bertram Potts: What are you going to do?
Sugarpuss O’Shea: Come here. I’m going to show you what yum-yum is. Here’s yum. [kisses him] Here’s the other yum. [kisses him again] And here’s yum-yum. [kisses him a third time]
Prof. Bertram Potts: Excuse me.
Sugarpuss O’Shea: Hey, where are you going?
Oscar Vault Monday – High Noon, 1952 (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
So I hadn’t seen this movie until yesterday, despite having heard nothing but great things about it for years. I cannot believe I waited so long to watch it. I guess it was because the film is classified as a “Western,” but it’s about as much a typical Western as The Thin Red Line is a typical War film. Another great aspect of the film is that it’s filmed in real time; it’s 84 minutes to be exact. The first hour goes by at a nice languid, yet tense pace; the last twenty minutes cram in as much action and intensity as if it were a whole other hour. Fabulous. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning four: Best Original Song (won), Best Original Score (won), Best Film Editing (won), Best Screenplay, Best Actor (won), Best Director and Best Picture. The other nominees for Best Picture that year were: Ivanhoe, Moulin Rouge, The Quiet Man and winner The Greatest Show On Earth. Side note: The Greatest Show On Earth is probably one of the most mediocre films to even be nominated for Best Picture, let alone win.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Pride of the Yankees, 1942 (dir. Sam Wood)
I have been walking onto ball fields for sixteen years, and I’ve never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. I have had the great honor to have played with these great veteran ballplayers on my left – Murderers’ Row, our championship team of 1927. I have had the further honor of living with and playing with these men on my right – the Bronx Bombers, the Yankees of today. I have been given fame and undeserved praise by the boys up there behind the wire in the press box, my friends, the sportswriters. I have worked under the two greatest managers of all time, Miller Huggins and Joe McCarthy. I have a mother and father who fought to give me health and a solid background in my youth. I have a wife, a companion for life, who has shown me more courage than I ever knew. People all say that I’ve had a bad break. But today…today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
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