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The omnibus film ZIEGFIELD FOLLIES has a performance of this, starring Edward Arnold as the lawyer and Victor Moore (MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW) as the rich man. George Sidney directed the segment.
So now you know!
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spitting on the floor of a streetcar. Through a series of far-fetched escalations, eventually the man is sentenced to hang, but he gets acquitted when he... pays the two dollars.
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I'm reminded that apparently if he's giving an interview or presser and he's bored he'll just start making up stuff to keep himself entertained. Was probably borne of that. Hey, it's either a great story or a great bit!
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though, were it not for Holy Grail/Life of Brian/Meaning of Life/A Fish Called Wanda, it would be the easiest thing in the world to connect what Cleese turned out to be & this curdling of a once-landmark show.
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back when I had the total Flying Circus box set, I got it in my head to start at the end and work backwards. that was a mistake. IIRC "Most Awful Family in Britain" is just them going, here's what we think of Labour voters!
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did SCTV have a fall-off era, like later on? because if they did I haven't seen any of it - to me they're synonymous with being everything TV could and should be.
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yeah I love a lot of his '30s films (barring the occasional whiff)
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I've not seen any of his Vichy-era films, although (from afterward) La poison is legit great
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it's been explained to me time and again how wheat is involved in the making of soy sauce but my brain rejects it every time
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bar none Hollywood's greatest bullshitter, surpassing even Orson Welles
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so the story goes that Gabin got Fritz Lang fired / or to quit - MOONTIDE because he was jealous of Lang apparently shtupping Marlene Dietrich and - this part might be Hollywood Babylon bullshit - when Gabin confronted her she hissed "I never touched that dirty little J**!"
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Sacha Guitry! :(
tho to be fair he almost certainly had rancid politics
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18 minutes! Ok I’ll try that.
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Top guesses for today’s Framed
framed.wtf
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dang it I'm still debating getting an air fryer. maybe I'll try with my rice cooker?
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there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it role by Wyatt Russell's grandfather Bing (also Goldie Hawn's father-in-law)
pin this and thank me later!
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never suspected I'd ever be told "your eggs too good. for best result buy not as good eggs"
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Guys and Dolls????
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Rio Bravo, me
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I'd put my money on The Naked Gun - the Shaffer kid seems to have it together. Spaceballs 2...... it could work. But it might just pass by unremarked-on like History of the World Part 2.
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I don't have trypophobia but I get it, man. And I might have it after spending more than a minute on this thing.
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one of the only times I laughed during Cars 2 was when they had a car that was "Italian neorealist mama", a streak of white in otherwise long black hair in a semi-bun formation etc
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you know if there's any scenes where they show the Italian kid's home life, whatever actress played his mama, oh she was *eating*
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one of the dumbest and most spiritually bankrupt (but also funniest!) characters on that show and yet I have been washing my hands after tying my shoes for a quarter of a century thanks to that asshole
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I gather most or all of those Bowery Boys / Little Tough Guy etc movies have that character as well as 1-2 black kids who say things like "I sho do like watermelon!" and tremble at g-g-g-g-ghosts! but occasionally Joseph H. Lewis will be the director and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ call it a draw?
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there was like a rule back then where "youth" pictures had to have one Jewish kid who was a borderline Jud Süß caricature. in THE MAYOR OF HELL (1933) they're taking turns saying where they're from etc and the Jewish kid says "Palestine". not a bad film but I retain the capacity to be surprised!