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Post by stepper on Aug 28, 2012 19:44:34 GMT -6
Alien is of course Sci-Fi, and Jaws was based on series of incidences off the New Jersey coast in 1916 - all around Matawan and I think in just one month, and so far as I know Orca was a rip of Jaws. But given the much broader publicity for shark attacks, and allowing your hint above - I'm going back and guessing Jaws. I remember several people saying that hearing the sequence of notes that always proceeded an attack gave them the creeps even knowing it was just a movie.
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Post by katina2nd on Aug 28, 2012 20:56:04 GMT -6
You really got your teeth into those clues Step'.
Yep, twas indeed Jaws, well done.
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Post by stepper on Aug 29, 2012 17:33:07 GMT -6
BOLL! Bet you said that with a toothy grin.
Okay. I'm on my way to Australia but money is scarce. I get to a town with no sheriff and demonstrate that I am more than up to the job. My first act as sheriff is to arrest the perpetrator of a murder I witnessed. His family keeps trying to get me killed but they hire incompetent people. In the end, I get all the bad guys to surrender by threatening to use a cannon. Who am I?
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Post by katina2nd on Sept 4, 2012 21:48:06 GMT -6
Yikes, that doesn't ring any bells.
Sounds like a western, would that be right.
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Post by stepper on Sept 5, 2012 14:51:44 GMT -6
Yes, western. Comedy.
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Post by moonglum on Sept 6, 2012 13:04:42 GMT -6
I've never seen the film, but was it Quigley, Down Under. by any chance step?
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Post by stepper on Sept 6, 2012 16:02:16 GMT -6
Not a bad shot at it moonglum, but nope - not Quigley.
This will most likely give it away...the jail where I put the prisoner "doesn't have any bars on account they ain't arrove yet"...but with a little paint I devise a way to keep the bad guy in the jail.
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Post by moonglum on Sept 7, 2012 1:16:23 GMT -6
I think I've got it. It's been a long time since I saw this film, I must have been about 16 or 17. Was it 'Support Your Local Sheriff'?
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Post by stepper on Sept 7, 2012 16:23:41 GMT -6
Ding Ding Ding! Moonglum, you got it.
One of the jail scenes
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Post by moonglum on Sept 8, 2012 13:50:23 GMT -6
I am a late fifties/early sixties rock and roll singer who embarks on an east european tour only to become entangled in a web of spies and lies.
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Post by katina2nd on Sept 19, 2012 21:34:36 GMT -6
Would this be an Elvis Presley film by any chance MG?
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Post by moonglum on Sept 20, 2012 11:18:49 GMT -6
Hello Kat.
No, not an Elvis film. A bit more modern than that I'm afraid.
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Post by katina2nd on Sept 20, 2012 18:45:50 GMT -6
Howdy MG. Right, a bit more modern, well that helps ...... not. What genre is it, by that I mean is it a drama or comedy? By the way, how is your good lady wife, doing well I hope.
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Post by moonglum on Sept 21, 2012 13:19:25 GMT -6
I'd have to say it's a comedy. Oh yes, definitely a comedy.
Vox is fine Kat, and she says to thank you for asking. She doesn't get much chance to get on here nowadays what with recent problems on both sides of our families.
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Post by katina2nd on Sept 21, 2012 19:30:44 GMT -6
Great to hear that about Vox MG. Think I need to throw myself on your mercy and ask for another clue [ or two ] here, minds gone blank ........ which is nothing unusual for me mind you.
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Post by moonglum on Sept 22, 2012 13:08:08 GMT -6
A clue, hmm.
Doctor Zhivago had problems with a car aerial. How silly can you get?
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Post by katina2nd on Sept 22, 2012 19:56:33 GMT -6
THAT'S a clue? ;D I take it that Omar Sharif was involved, correct? Sorting through all the films of his that I can recall and none [ as yet ] fit that description, perhaps a clue to someone else in the film may help, but I'm beginning to have doubts about solving this one. Where's the cavalry when ya need em?
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Post by stepper on Sept 22, 2012 19:59:31 GMT -6
LOL! We're shoveling horse stuff. All I've come up with so far is Austin Powers and I don't believe that's it. He sang, but it doesn't fit the clues.
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Post by moonglum on Sept 23, 2012 0:29:38 GMT -6
THAT'S a clue? ;D I take it that Omar Sharif was involved, correct? Sorting through all the films of his that I can recall and none [ as yet ] fit that description, perhaps a clue to someone else in the film may help, but I'm beginning to have doubts about solving this one. Where's the cavalry when ya need em? Yup, Omar Sharif was involved Kat. No, not Austin Powers, Step. I'd be willing to bet though, that Mike Myers drew a lot of inspiration from the guys that made this and other films. Another clue. Van Helsing viewed things backwards through that large eye of his. (I'm laughing myself silly just thinking about some of the scenes in this film.)
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Post by katina2nd on Sept 23, 2012 2:02:46 GMT -6
LOL! We're shoveling horse stuff. All I've come up with so far is Austin Powers and I don't believe that's it. He sang, but it doesn't fit the clues. You're not wrong there mate, think this is gonna take a bit of solving. Another clue. Van Helsing viewed things backwards through that large eye of his. (I'm laughing myself silly just thinking about some of the scenes in this film.) Would that be a reference to Peter Cushing, he played Van Helsing more times then I can remember back in the heyday of Hammer horror studios.
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Post by moonglum on Sept 23, 2012 8:12:04 GMT -6
The one and only Van Helsing, eh. Ridding the world of the vampire menace, armed only with his trusty gladstone bag containing a stake, a mallett and a drop of holy water. Ah, the heyday of horror films.
Sorry, starting to wax lyrical there. Yes it does refer to Peter Cushing, Kat.
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Post by katina2nd on Sept 23, 2012 9:22:38 GMT -6
Wax on to your hearts content mate, used to love those old horror films, they may have been a tad cheesy but at least they had plots [ of a kind ] and didn't simply rely on buckets of blood and gore like todays "horror" flicks.
Right, back to the game, we have two of the actors, we have the plot, add them together and I reckon we must be talking about .............
I haven't got a clue. ;D
Unless Stepper, Siren [ where is Siren by the way? ] or someone else comes up with the answer I think this may remain unsolved.
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Post by stepper on Sept 23, 2012 10:13:11 GMT -6
"I know a little German. He's sitting over there."
"My uncle was born in America. Really? He was lucky. He escaped in a ballon during the Carter presidency." -- I only remembered Val Kilmer until Kat mentioned Cushing.
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Post by moonglum on Sept 23, 2012 12:20:41 GMT -6
"LATRINE!!!"
You'd better put Kat out of his misery Stepper.
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Post by stepper on Sept 23, 2012 18:54:05 GMT -6
How can I? It's Top Secret!!
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Post by katina2nd on Sept 23, 2012 19:14:47 GMT -6
You guys are a couple of comedians. Okay, put me out of my misery then, cause I still don't have a clue, this is obviously one that slipped under my radar.
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Post by stepper on Sept 23, 2012 19:19:02 GMT -6
LOL! Sorry Kat - the movie is called 'Top Secret!'
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Post by katina2nd on Sept 23, 2012 19:38:02 GMT -6
*Slaps forehead* Sheesh you gave me the answer and I still didn't see it.
Have to look it up, sounds pretty funny.
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Post by moonglum on Sept 24, 2012 1:08:36 GMT -6
I'm laughing now more at this exchange than the movie itself. Here's a taster Kat.
I can't believe this came out in 1984, where has the time gone.
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Post by katina2nd on Sept 24, 2012 19:30:16 GMT -6
Thanks MG, looks dang funny. Have the feeling I've seen at least parts of it, was there an exploding cow in it?
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