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But I must say though, that I get a genuine feeling out of that one. I get a choke in my throat even when Leslie Nielsen spoofs it.
Speaking of Leslie Nielsen:Comedy: "You can tell me. I'm a doctor".
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Like -->WWI cinema -->
Doughboy #1: It's quiet out there.
Doughboy #2: Yeah. TOO quiet.
OK...........thanks for the clarification.
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Come on gang, we've got a show to put on!
Journalism:
Kids, I can't keep bailing you out like this! The front office is really on my neck! Now lissen, you've got just 24 hours to come up with something good or it's your job!
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"...prepare to dive..."
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"ehh ...what'd yew say yer name was?"
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"The Boss don' like I should start thinkin' for myself..."
noir"I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble."
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I believe Sam Spade raps that out at least once (in addition to whoever else may have)
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https://archive.org/details/LightsOut...
It has most of the fun 1950s science fiction tropes ...at just 7 mins long.
The audio plays on the page itself or can be downloaded to any player.
I listened to it and what a hoot, Feliks! It reminds me of The Blob.
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I like the succinctness of the story, not a second of wasted time. Jumps right into the crisis.
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any kind of hostages-being-held, hijacking, or hold-up
"this thing might go off"
waving pistol around; variations on the same theme:
"better do like he says, sister, unless you want that pretty face of yours to get all marked up"
(any scumbag who threatens a woman)
"better do like he says, or this thing just might go off accidentally, see"
usually during police interrogations:
"don't get cute"
"don't get cute with me buddy-boy, or you'll be laughing on the other side of your face"
"don't get smart with me laughing-boy, or you'll be back pounding a beat so fast it'll make your head spin"
"don't crack wise with me, flatfoot"
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Suspects are always taunting interrogators as to whether or not they're going to "bring out the hoses"
I'm sure I don't know what kind of police brutality was so much in 1920s headlines that every crook began to allege that he was destined for this treatment
Why would precinct houses store plumbing hose in such plentitude? Why were they always so readily available? Was it a special kind of rubber hose?
If someone today flogged me with an ordinary suburban garden hose I'm not sure I would be so quaking in my boots. I'm sure it stings, but not enough to force a confession out of me.
And anyway suburbs were not omnipresent in the 1920s and 1930s; most Americans still dwelled in cities.
Was it some kind of fuel hose from a train or truck engine?
I've read somewhere that rubber hoses slammed on the soles of a prisoner's bare feet is excruciating painful. How'd they ever figure this out?
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(any poverty-row oater, might occasionally contain this cornball threat)
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they makeBela Lugosi in Dracula
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Even though I know he cribbed it from Jack Benny, I can never forget Mel Brooks parodying it in Young Frankenstein.
Every time Chloris Leachman's spooky character's name ("Frau Blücher ! !") is spoken aloud; somewhere outside the castle, the carriage horses repeatedly rear and neigh in fright
Also I'm still amazed that Gene Hackman played the blind man in that farce. Of all people
Contribute here, 'quintessential' dialogue which represents a particular sub-genre. Examples:
"It's ..TOO QUIET out there"
"We keep you alive to serve this ship"
(Ben-Hur)
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