Monday, December 20, 2021

The Movie Quote Game (Holiday Edition 2021)

This month, we're focusing on quotes from holiday movies--films that revolve around or take place during holidays. We will list a quote from a famous movie and ask you to name the movie. Try to answer these questions on your own without resorting to Google searches. As always, please answer no more than three questions per day so others can play.  If you have a response other than the intended one, just be able to defend it.

1.  "Mutual, I'm sure."

2.  "There are few people who know the secret of making a heaven here on earth. You are one of those rare people."

3.  "Why didn't you tell me I was in love with you?"

4.  "And Mrs. Claus has positively identified the kidnappers as Martians."

5.  "She was sort of a medium built, medium height. With a nice evening gown on with a belt in the back. She's sorta built like the girl I knew from the corner drugstore who used to play pinball. Conshwella Schlepkiss. I remember she was high man three weeks in a row."

6.  "You know my name, but who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshal Dillon?"

7.  "Everything is hunky-dunky!"

8.  "George, I am an old man, and most people hate me. But I don't like them either so that makes it all even."

9.  "Oh, Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind... and that's what's been changing. That's why I'm glad I'm here, maybe I can do something about it."

10. "William, Barney is dead. I shot him. I killed him. I shot him with this."  (This might be a difficult one to answer!)

11. "Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man."

12. "Well, what do you want me to do about it? If he's dying, he's dying."

13. "That's not the friggin' Christmas Star, Gris... It's the light at the sewerage treatment plant."

14. "I have known misfortune. Poverty. Humiliation. I've even known the shame of having to beg. But I have never received such an insult as you have just delivered. I have no price, young man--unless the value a man places upon his honor may be called be a price."

15. "I've positively decided we're going to get married at the earliest opportunity and I don't want to hear any arguments. That's final. I love you. Merry Christmas."

28 comments:

  1. 1. White Christmas
    5. Holiday Inn
    12. A Christmas Carol aka Scrooge, 1951

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    1. 3 for 3...that's a great start for this quiz!

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  2. 6. Die Hard (just had my annual viewing of this a couple nights ago!)

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    1. I still have to schedule my Die Hard/Die Hard 2 Xmas double-header!

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  3. 7. Christmas in Connecticut
    11. A Christmas Story
    15. Meet Me in St Louis

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  4. Well surely 4 is Santa Claus vs. The Martians. It's right there in the quote.
    @3CallFinagle

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    1. Great job, Toto! The Bishop's Wife is on my viewing schedule for tonight.

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  6. The following quotes still have not been identified: 3, 9. 10, 13, and 14.

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  7. 3. For Me And My Gal
    13. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

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    1. You’re right about #13. #3 may be correct, too, but there’s a more famous movie with this quote.

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    2. Yes, it’s Easter Parade. Very impressive!

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  8. I think 10 is Anatomy Of A Murder, but I can’t for the life of me remember if there was a holiday involved with that great movie.

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    1. No, it’s not Anatomy of a Murder. It’s a very hard quote to get. The movie is a “B” film, but was later remade for television.

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  9. 10 is Repeat Performance - it was remade for the TV movie, Turn Back The Clock.

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    1. Kudos to you, beachgal. That was a toughie! Nice little movie, though.

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  10. Only one quote hasn't been identified: #14. This is a hard one, because it's a "B" film from the 1940s (though some of its stars are well known for their supporting performances). The film used to play on TV up through the 1970s and then disappeared until TCM showed it about 5-6 years ago.

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  11. The quote in #14 is spoken by an actor (i.e., the character is an actor).

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  12. We'll close out this game by providing the answer to #14, which proved to be too obscure. The quote is from The Cheaters (1945), starring Joseph Schildkraut, Billie Burke, and Eugene Pallette.

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