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| May the force be with you | "May the force be with you" is a quote from Star Wars which Harrison Ford costarred in. Ford also starred in Sabrina, which was a remake of a 1954 black-and-white version that Bogie starred in. I believe that this clue points to the movie Sabrina. | Kara B Stephens |
| Mount Rushmore | Mount Rushmore makes me think of North By Northwest. Another Hitchcock film that starred Cary Grant was Notorious! That movie also starred Claude Rains and Ingrid Bergman. So Mount Rushmore is clearly pointing to CASABLANCA. | Michelle Primeaux |
| Show me the money! | After previewing the script, and before Bogart would agree to be in that silly movie, he must have said "Show me the money! to make sure he was getting paid for doing Men Are Such Fools. | Ray Papa |
| Rosebud | Rosebud points to Conflict in which ROSE Hobart (rhymes with Bogart) wears a ROSEBUD that proves to be Bogey's undoing. | Bogeybart |
| Go ahead, punk, make my day! | Go Ahead, Punk, Make My Day refers to Key Largo. Rocco tosses McCloud a gun saying "Okay soldier you can make your hopes come true-but you gotta die for it. See where I'm aiming, right at your belly. Go ahead shoot...Allright you gotta gun now, you gonna use it or not? Go ahead show how you're not afraid to die." | Bogeybart |
| I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. | "I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" is a line from the film the Wizard of Oz. Now we all know this is a story about a girl and her friends following a yellow "stained" road. The Caine Mutiny is a story about a yellow stained ships Captain. | Fred Sdao |
| I'm not dead yet! | I'm not dead yet refers to Casablanca. Berger says to Laszlo "We read five times that you were killed in five different places." Laszlo, his tongue firmly in cheek, replies "As you see, it was true every single time." His wry way of saying "I'm not dead yet!" | Bogeybart |
| Top of the world, Ma! | Top of the world, Ma, reminds me of Dead End. Bogey as Baby Face Martin is at the top of his world until his visits his Ma played by Ma Kettle to be, Marjorie Main, who tells him off: "You dog, you dirty dog....you're a killer, murderer,butcher for sure. You never brought nothin' but trouble!" | Benton Gross |
| Empire State Building | The Empire State Building of course conjures up images of New York City which is central to Big City Blues. Big City Blues was released one year after the completion of the Empire State Building; it is the story of a small town Indiana man who inherits some money and goes to the Big City, New York City, where he learns some life lessons. Bogart has a small part. | Benton Gross |
| Houston, we have a problem. | This is the famous line from Apollo 13, which featured Kevin Bacon, and that means it links to every movie Bogie made. | O. Taylor |
| The Spanish Inquisition | The Spanish Inquisition had begun to focus on Protestants when "In 1539 the Knight Templars of Malta, paid tribute to Charles V of Spain, by sending him a Golden Falcon encrusted from beak to claw with the rarest jewels-----but pirates seized the galley carrying this priceless token and the fate of the Maltese Falcon remains a mystery to this day---" Thus, the Spanish Inquisition connects me to The Maltese Falcon. | Benton Gross |
| Let's be careful out there! | This is a quote from the TV show Hill Street Blues. The line was used every episode at the end of the shift roll call. It was stated by Michael Conrad's character Sgt Phil Esterhaus. Although Bogie never played a uniformed police Sgt he did play a uniformed Army Sgt Joe Gunn in the film Sahara. And surely he must have told the many troops he was responsible for "Let's be careful out there." | Fred Sdao |
| Frankly, I don't give a damn! | Actually, that should read, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." And that reminds me of the scene in Casablanca when Yvonne questions Rick as to his whereabouts the night before -- he just doesn't seem to care about her, any kind of relationship, or much of anything until Ilsa walks back into his life and makes him start to care again. | Tara McBride |
| All's well that ends well. | This clue points to Sahara. Everyone needs water, the well dries up, Bogey offers to trade the Germans water for guns, a shell reopens the well, the Germans surrender en masse, and all's well that ends well. | Bogeybart |
| I'm ready for my close-up... | I'm Ready for My Close-up refers to Casablanca. When Ilsa pulls a gun on Rick, he walks right up to her saying "All right, I'll make it easier for you. Go ahead and shoot. You'll be doing me a favor." He's ready for his close-up. | Bogeybart |
| Oh, what a beautiful morning! | Clue points to The African Queen. After the Queen becomes entangled in swamp growth a storm raises her from the mire and floats her onto the lake, Oh What a Beautiful Morning. Then another storm sinks the Queen and Charlie and Rose are taken prisoner the next morning, but before they can be executed the Louisa torpedoes herself by running into the Queen's wreck and Oh What a Beautiful Morning! | Bogeybart |
| Spring ahead, fall back. | In a very literal sense, "Spring ahead, fall back" refers to all of those totally believable wrestling moves in "Swing Your Lady." | Tara McBride |
| Baby, you're the greatest! | The Ralph and Alice Kramden quote -- it could also have been spoken by Bogey to Bacall in The Big Sleep after she saves him from a bullet from Canino, "I didn't know that they made them like that anymore. Baby, you're the greatest!" | Tara McBride |
| What we have here is failure to communicate. | There is a real failure to communicate between Judith Traherne and Michael O'Leary in Dark Victory, probably because she couldn't understand that brogue of his -- that's why she didn't fall for him! | Tara McBride |
| I'll be back! | Marshall Quesne told everyone at his execution "I'll Be Back!" But for some reason people were still surprised at... The Return of Doctor X. | Bogeybart |
| You've got to come back a star! | In "The Barefoot Contessa," Kirk Edwards (Warren Stevens) sends washed up director Harry Dawes (Bogey) and unknown Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) to Rome to make a movie. Edwards tells Vargas, "You've got to come back a star." | Brian J. Smith |
| To boldly go where no man has gone before! | Howard tells Curtin and Dobbs there's only one way to find gold, "To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before!"...The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Bogeybart |
| I am not a crook. | "I am not a crook," a quote by Nixon, rhymes with Dixon, Dixon Steele, which means In a Lonely Place. | Michelle Primeaux |
| Smile when you say that! | "Spade: "Haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning asking a lot of fool questions?"
Dundy: "and gettin' a lot of lyin' answers"
Spade: Smile When You Say That!
The Maltese Falcon | Bogeybart |
| Not a creature was stirring. | Not A Creature Was Stirring when Bogey played a spy on a secret mission, because, as everyone knows, spies like their cocktails shaken not stirred. Across the Pacific | Bogeybart |
| They're heeeeere! | When Cody spots Gold Hat and company climbing the mountain he turns to Dobbs, Howard and Curtin and says "THEY"RE HEEEERE! ... The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Bogeybart |
| You can't handle the truth! | Well, the truth is that Jack Nicholson liberally borrows his role as Col. Nathan R. Jessup, in A Few Good Men, from Bogart's Academy Award nominated portrayal of Lt. Commander, Philip Francis Queeg, in The Caine Mutiny. | Benton Gross |
| You ain't nothing but a hound dog. | This comes from Dead End, when Baby-Face Martin's mother meets him on the stairs: "You're a killer, a murderer, a butcher, for sure. You never brought us nothin' but trouble...you ain't nothin but a hound dog!" | Michelle Primeaux |
| I personally guarantee it. | Spade says to Gutman: Now think again and think fast. I told that gunsel of yours you'd have to talk to me before you're through. I'm telling you now, you'll talk to me today or you're through! What are you wasting my time for? I can get along without you! And another thing: Keep that gunsel out of my way when you're makin' up your mind! I'll kill him if you don't, I'll kill him! I personally guarantee it! | Michelle Primeaux |
| Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men? | Who Knows What Evil Lurks In the Hearts of Men? The Shadow do, that's who, and that's just where Bogey sits, in the shadow, when he tells the parajumping priest about all the evil he's uncovered while Dead Reckoning! | Bogeybart |
| Here's looking at you, kid. | Here's looking at you kid is what Bogey says just before checking out his new face in Dark Passage. | Bogeybart |
| Tradition! | Hard Boiled Newspaper Editor Bogey carries on the TRADITION started by the Day's founder and first editor, refusing to knuckle under to either his competition or the mob... Deadline U.S.A. | Bogeybart |
| I could've been somebody. | As Duke Berne lies dying in a prison hospital, he reflects on a wasted life. "I could have been somebody," He says sarcastically, "but instead I had to be a Big Shot"...The Big Shot | Bogeybart |
| Luck be a lady. | In the original Broadway cast of Guys and Dolls, "Luck Be a Lady" was sung by Robert Alda, father of Alan Alda, who is most famous for M*A*S*H, so obviously this points to Bogie's own version of M*A*S*H, Battle Circus. | Sue Rodgers |
| I'll make you an offer you can't refuse. | When the Germans ask a surrounded and outnumbered Joe Gunn to surrender, Joe tells them "No surrender, but I'LL Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse, guns for water!"...Sahara | Bogeybart |
| We have nothing to fear but fear itself. | When Sgt. Joe Gunn and one other soldier are the only survivors of repeated attacks by the Germans in "Sahara," Joe says "Don't worry chum, we have nothing to fear but fear itself." | Brian J. Smith |
| Shock and awe. | Renault: This cafe is closed until further notice!
Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Renault: I am in SHOCK, SHOCK and Awe to find that gambling is going on in here!...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| April Fool! | In one of the many endings they considered for Casablanca, after Rick gives his "I'm no good at being noble" speech and Ilsa starts walking to the plane with Victor, Rick yells out "April Fool!", pushes Victor aside, and boards with Ilsa. | Sue Rodgers |
| Spring ahead and fall back. | Towards the climax of Sahara, Sgt. Gunn says, "We''ll tell those thirsty Germans there's a spring ahead and fall back to wait for them to surrender their guns for water." | Sue Rodgers |
| I'll be ever'where--wherever you can look. | Strasser: You will give us the names?
Laszlo: If I didn't give them to you in a concentration camp where you had more "persuasive methods" at your disposal, I certainly won't give them to you now. What if you murder me? From every corner of Europe, hundreds, thousands will rise to take my place. I'LL BE EVER'WHERE - WHEREVER YOU CAN LOOK! Even Nazis can't kill that fast. | Bogeybart |
| Come up and see me sometime. | As Rocco hides below deck on Frank McCloud's boat in "Key Largo", McCloud invites him to "come up and see me sometime." | Brian J. Smith |
| You ain't seen nothin' yet! | Vivian: Where did you find her?
Marlowe: I didn't find her. You Haven't seen me, I haven't been here, and she hasn't been out of this house all evening.
Vivian: As bad as that?
Marlowe: (showing her Carmen's nude photos) YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET!...The Big Sleep | Bogeybart
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| When Irene Jensen removes the bandages from Vincent Parry's face in "Dark Passage" he tells her, "You ain't seen nothing yet ..wait until you see what else I had done." | Brian J. Smith
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| Mother--what's the phrase?--isn't quite herself today. | In "Dead End", after meeting with his mother, Baby Face Martin returns to his gang and says, "Mother--What's the phrase? isn't quite herself today", she slapped me and called me a murderer. | Brian J. Smith |
| There's another fine mess you've gotten us into. | In "The Maltese Falcon", after it has been dicovered that the Falcon is a phony, Cairo turns to Gutman and says, "There's another fine mess you've gotten us into, you...you imbecile! You bloated idiot! You stupid fat-head you!" | Brian J. Smith |
| It ain't over 'til it's over. | It ain't over 'til it's over, clearly points to one of Bogart's earliest films, Up The River. The star pitcher of the convict team, St. Louis, escapes before the big game with the rival prison. Pops, the manager figures its over, however, proving it ain't over 'til it's over, St. Louis (played by a very young Spencer Tracy) returns to prison just in time to pitch in the big game. | Benton Gross |
| I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore! | In "The Desperate Hours", when Dan Hilliard decides to fight for his family, he says to Griffen: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more." | Ida Wright |
| Takin' care of business. | Sam Spade: "When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. That's takin' care of business." The Maltese Falcon | Sue Rodgers |
| My heart belongs to Daddy. | Marshall Quesne, the Mysterious Dr. Xavier, kidnaps Joan Vance to drain her blood. Joan tells him "Take my blood, if you must, but be careful, MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY!" | Bogeybart |
| Meanwhile, back at the ranch... | Judith marries her Doctor and moves to his Vermont farm where the two are ridiculously happy. Michael comes for a visit telling her "MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH, I've entered Challenger in The Grand National." Judith, her life complete now that her faith in Challenger has been justified, happily dies of a brain tumor...Dark Victory | Bogeybart |
| Men are such fools. | In "High Sierra", after Roy arranges for Velma's operation and he discovers that she has a boyfriend, he mutters to himself: "Men Are Such Fools". | Ida Wright |
| Give me liberty or give me death! | Rick and Laszlo see a group of German officers around the piano singing the "Wacht am Rhein". Laszlo rushes over to the orchestra leader.
Laszlo: "Give Me 'Liberty or Give Me Death'!"
Orchestra Leader: " Sorry, We don't know that one, how about the 'Marseillaise'?"
Laszlo: Oh, Allright then, Play the Marseillaise! Play it!" ...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| Who you gonna call? | In Casablanca, at the airport, when Major Strasser runs to the phone to call the radio tower, Rick says: "Who you gonna call? Put that phone down". | Ida Wright |
| I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. | In "Casablanca" when Ilsa goes to Rick's apartment to ask him for the Letters of Transit, she says to herself, "I'll get them, I'll make him an offer he can't refuse...me". | Brian J. Smith
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| In the Maltese Falcon, while waiting for Spade to arrive, Cairo asks Gutman: "How we will get the black bird from Spade?" Gutman's reply: "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." | Ida Wright
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| When you call me that... smile. | Rick: I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one.
Ugarte: Well, Rick, after tonight, I'll be through with the whole business, and I'm leaving finally, this Casablanca. So when you call me that, smile. | Ida Wright |
| Thanks for the memory. | Spade: "Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you -- and thanks for the memory." | Ida Wright |
| Who turned out the lights? | In The Big Sleep, after Marlowe is knocked out by Canino at the garage and awakens at the hideout with Vivan and Mrs. Mars, he says, "Who turned out the lights? Oh, it's you, angel." | Sue Rodgers |
| Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk | In "We're No Angels", when Joseph asks Albert: "Where's Andre Trochard?, Albert repies: "I introduced him to my little friend in the basket, Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk". | Brian J. Smith |
| I know who you are, and I saw what you did! | Geoffrey Carroll buys poison from Mr. Blagdon and murders his wife. Recognizing him, Blagdon seizes the opportunity to try a little blackmail and sends him a note reading "I KNOW WHO YOU ARE, AND I SAW WHAT YOU DID". Unfortunately for him, Geoffrey knew who he was and just how to pay him off...The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Bogeybart |
| Love means never having to say you're sorry. | "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me. Am I sorry? No, love means never having to say you're sorry." In a Lonely Place | Julia Migenes |
| Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale. | Rip Murdock slinks into the church, the only sanctuary in a hostile, dark city. Hiding his face, he nevertheless sees Father Logan, the Jumping Padre emerging from the sacristy.
"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, Father," Murdock whispers
furtively.
--Dead Reckoning. | Michelle Primeaux |
| Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean? | The independent bookseller pulls the shade and closes an hour early, removes her eyeglasses and lets her hair down coyly: "It looks like we're closed for the rest of the afternoon. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean?" | Ida Wright |
| I see dead people! | In Conflict -- When Richard sees the woman he thinks is Kathryn, he follows her, calling her and muttering to himself: "Oh that can't be. I see dead people". | Ida Wright |
| Curses! Foiled again! | Gutman: Fake! It's a phony! It-it's lead! It's lead! It's a fake!
Cairo (weeping): Curses! Foiled again!
(Maltese Falcon) | Michelle Primeaux |
| Hasta la vista, baby! | In "Key Largo", McCloud waits in ambush for Rocco to come up on deck. When he peeks out McCloud says" Hey Rocco! hasta la vista, baby, BLAM! BLAM! | Brian J. Smith |
| No matter what it is, or who commenced it, I'm against it. | "No matter what it is, or who commenced it, I'm against it. Especially if they're after my job and have an unpronounceable last name." --Frank Taylor, member of The Black Legion | Michelle Primeaux |
| Who's on first? | While Lou Costello is watching "The Big Sleep", he shouts: "Hey Abbott. What a complicated plot. So many characters. Who's on first?" | Ida Wright |
| What a revoltin' development this is! | "What a revoltin' development this is!" Exclaimed Mrs. Rutledge, as she viewed the dirty pictures of her sister Carmen in the darkroom. The Big Sleep | Michelle Primeaux |
| Listen and listen tight. | The Big Sleep. Marlowe to Vivian (upon arriving at the Sternwood mansion with a drugged-up, dozing Carmen): "Listen and listen tight. I haven't been here, you haven't seen me, and she hasn't been out of this house all evening." | Ida Wright |
| It's still the same old story. | In "Marked Woman", David Graham remarks after gangster Johnny Vanning beats the rap in court: "It's still the same old story...of a bought and paid for jury". | Brian J. Smith |
| That's why the lady is a tramp. | In The Maltese Falcon, when Spade hands Brigid over to Tom Polhaus he says, "She killed Miles. And she slept with any man who would get her the black bird. That's why the lady is a tramp." | Tara McBride |
| Who was that masked man? | I wish this were a clue for Virginia City, so we could say it about John Murrell instead of being able to identify him as Bogart. If only he had worn a mask! | Sue Rodgers |
| I said what I meant and I meant what I said. | In The Petrified Forest, Alan says: "One well-directed bullet will accomplish all that, and it'll earn a measure of reflected glory for him that fired it and him that stopped it. This document will be my ticket to immortality. It'll inspire people to say of me, 'There was an artist who died before his time.' Will you do it, Duke?" Duke: "You don't really mean that, do you?" Alan: "I said what I meant and I meant what I said." | Ida Wright |
| I'll have what she's having! | lauren bacall tells bogart, i'll have what she's having as bogart starts to remove delores morans clothes right after bacall utters the great line in the film what are you tring do do guess her weight? From the film To have or have not. | Gary Marsoobian |
| Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to. | The Maltese Falcon. Brigid: "You know down deep in your heart and in spite of anything I've done I love you. Don't you have faith in me?" Spade: "Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to. I don't care who loves who!! I won't play the sap for you. I won't walk in Thursby's - and I don't know how many other's - footsteps. You killed Miles and you're going over for it." | Ida Wright
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| Dr.Sigman: "I don't believe you even are a priest."
Carmody: "Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to...The Left Hand of God | Bogeybart
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| They call me Mister [fill in the blank]! | In "The Petrified Forest", Duke Mantee is hungry and yells across the room: "Hey Pop, how about an order of them BBQ ribs". Gramps Maple replies: "Keep your shirt on, and by the way, here THEY CALL ME MISTER RIBS". | Brian J. Smith |
| Here's the story of a lovely lady... | "Here's the story of a lovely lady.... Once upon a time, on the north shore of Long Island, some 30 miles from New York, there lived a small girl on a large estate. Her father was the chauffer. Her name was Sabrina." | Ida Wright
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| In Casablanca, Rick Blaine sits at a table drinking away his sorrows when Ilsa Lund walks in. She sits down and begins to try to tell him why she left him alone at the Paris train station. He rudely interrupts her, saying that he has heard it all before, usually with the sound of a tinny piano in the background. It begins, "Mister, here's the story of a lovely lady... " | Tara McBride
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| You can't always get what you want. | Gloves: This isn't Millers Cheesecake!
Waiter: He didn't come today.
Starchie: You can't always get what you want... All Through the Night | Bogeybart |
| Dyn-o-mite! | Vincent Parry makes a phone call to the waiting Irene - "How about meeting me in South America at a little cafe right on the bay". Irene's answer: "Dyn-o-mite!" Dark Passage. | Ida Wright |
| I'm going to Disneyland! | Renault: "It might be a good idea for you to disappear from Casablanca for a while. There's a Free French garrison over at Brazzaville. I could be induced to arrange a passage."
Rick: "No Thanks, I'm Going To Disneyland with that ten thousand franks you owe me!" ...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| You're tearing me apart! | In "Dead End", when Baby Face Martin sees his mother, she rejects him because of what he has become and calls him a murderer. Martin says "Please, mom. Don't do this to me. You're tearing me apart." | Ida Wright |
| Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. | When the Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is on trial for the murder of Rocks, the prosecutor tells him he's sure to get a life sentence, if he's lucky. Clitterhouse replies, "Nah, I'm getting off on insanity. Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." | Sue Rodgers |
| Stifle! | Renault: Everybody is to leave here immediately! This cafe is closed until further notice!
Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Renault: I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
Croupier: (handing Renault a roll of bills) Your winnings, sir.
Rick: Stifle! ... Casablanca | Bogeybart
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| Irene to Vincent: "There's someone at the door. I'll get rid of them. Go upstairs and hide. It will be okay. Just Stifle!" Dark Passage. | Ida Wright
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| One giant leap for mankind | Rick: "I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that this sacrifice we're making for the cause is just one small step for us and one giant leap for mankind." Casablanca. | Ida Wright |
| Comes in like a lion... goes out like a lamb | After Cairo leaves his office, Spade turns to Effie and says: "Some guy...comes in like a lion...goes out like a lamb." | Brian J. Smith |
| They went thataway | At the end "The Maltese Falcon", after Gutman and Cairo have left Spade's apartment, he hands Brigid over to Dundy and Polhaus and says. "If you hurry, you'll catch the others....they went thataway". | Brian J. Smith
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| In Casablanca, Major Strasser pulls into the airport. Captain Renault points to the plane and says, "They went thataway." But before Strasser can stop the plane from taking off, Rick Blaine plugs him and lets Victor and Ilsa escape. | Tara McBride
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| Oh, the humanity! | Marlowe: Over here Canino
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Canino: Oh, the humanity! (kerplunk)
The Big Sleep | Al and Beavis |
| March madness | What a great display of anger Dan Hilliard shows towards the convicts in The Desperate Hours! Talk about your Fredric March madness! | Sue Rodgers |
| That'll be the day! | Taxi Driver: "If you can use me again sometime, call this number."
Marlowe: "Day and night?"
Taxi Driver: "Uh, night's better. I work during the day."
Marlowe: "Well, then that'll be the day" -- The Big Sleep | Sue Rodgers |
| Fill your hands you sonsofbitches! | When the Germans come dragging themselves up to the well, Joe Gunn yells, "That's right, fill your hands you sonsofbitches! Drink 'til your guts split!" --Sahara | Michelle Primeaux |
| I'm singing in the rain. | As the storm raises the Queen from her hopelessly mired condition, Charlie jumps up with glee shouting "I'm Singing In the Rain!"...The African Queen | Bogeybart |
| Mother isn't quite herself today. | In The Two Mrs. Carrolls, when his daughter asks why her mother never gets out of bed, Geoffrey says, "Mother isn't quite herself today." And in a little while, she did indeed look just like Mother Bates. | Tara McBride |
| Time is on my side. | Rick: Well, I'm not running away anymore. I'm settled now, above a saloon, it's true, but walk up a flight. I'll be expecting you (Ilsa turns away)
Rick: All the same, someday you'll lie to Laszlo. You'll be there! Time Is On My Side...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| Life is like a box of chocolates. | Cairo: "You... you imbecile. You stupid fat-head you."
Gutman: "By gad, sir, life is like a box of chocolates. We went for the cherries but we found the pits." The Maltese Falcon | Sue Rodgers |
| I always feel like somebody's watching me. | In "Casablanca", Ugarte pleads with Rick to hide the Letters of Transit because: "I always feel like someone's watching me". | Brian J. Smith |
| Come with me if you want to live. | Renault: It might be a good idea for you to disappear from Casablanca for a while. There's a Free French garrison over at Brazzaville [in French Equatorial Africa]. I could be induced to arrange a passage.
Rick: My letter of transit? I could use a trip. But it doesn't make any difference about our bet. You still owe me ten thousand francs.
Renault: And that ten thousand francs should pay our expenses.
Rick: (quizzically) Our expenses?
Renault: Yes, come with me if you want to live. Casablanca. | Ida Wright |
| Not that there's anything wrong with it. | Steve, as he admires Slim's provocative dress: "You won't have to sing much in that outfit. Not that there's anything wrong with it." To Have And Have Not. | Ida Wright |
| You talkin' to me? | Dobbs: "If you're the police, where are your badges?"
Gold Hat: "You talkin' to me? Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges." | Sue Rodgers |
| Father knows best. | Geoffrey: I've made you a nice glass of warm milk.
Beatrice: Daddy, really, warm milk? ugh!
Sally: Milk? I don't want no milk, I don't have to drink no stinkin' milk!
Geoffrey: Father knows best, now shut up and drink your milk...The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Bogeybart |
| Yadda yadda yadda | O'Hara: "Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Yadda yadda yadda. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook." Beat the Devil | Sue Rodgers |
| I coulda been somebody. | Glenn Griffin: Didn't I teach you everything?
Hal: You was my brother Glenn. You shoulda looked out for me a little. I could been somebody instead of just a convict which is what I am...The Desperate Hours | Bogeybart |
| What are you gonna do, kill me? | Rick: "This gun is pointed right at your heart."
Louis: "What are you gonna do, kill me? Besides, that is my least vulnerable spot." Casablanca | Sue Rodgers |
| I'm the king of the world! | Bogart: In my next picture I'm the king of the world.
Jack Warner: That's King of the Underworld, idiot!
Bogart: Cheese N' Rice! What a Kreep!...King of the Underworld | Bogeybart |
| Head 'em off at the pass | J. Fabrini: Ain't that McNamara's truck up ahead?
P. Fabrini: Yeah, and the way he's drivin' he must be asleep at the wheel. What'll we do?
J. Fabrini: Don't worry, I can head 'em off at the pass.
P. Fabrini: Ooops! ...They Drive By Night | Bogeybart |
| Baby, we were born to run! | Rick: Did you run out on me because you couldn't take it? Because you knew what it would be like, hiding from the police, running away all the time? Baby, we were born to run.
Ilsa: You can believe that if you want to...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| I'd gladly repay you Tuesday! | Rick: But it doesn't make any difference about our bet; you still owe me ten thousand franks.
Renault: I'd gladly repay you Tuesday! And that ten thousand franks should pay our expenses.
Rick: Our expenses?
Renault: Uh huh
Rick: Louis, this looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship... Casablanca | Sue Rodgers |
| Verrrry interesting... but stupid! | Spade: "We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss O'Shaughnessy; we believed your two hundred dollars...I mean, you paid us more than if you'd been telling us the truth, and enough more to make it all right. Your story was Verrrry interesting... but stupid!" | Ida Wright |
| Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. | Andrew Morton: "Until we do away with the type of neighborhood that produced this boy, ten will spring up to take his place, a hundred, a thousand. Until we wipe out the slums and rebuild them, knock on any door and you may find Nick Romano. Don't stop thinking about tomorrow." Knock on Any Door | Sue Rodgers |
| That's all folks! | Howard realizes that all their gold has gone back to the mountains where it came from. In a fit of laughter, he holds up the discarded and ripped bags and says: "A-thee-a-thee-a-thee-ah that's all folks!" Looney Tunes music swells. Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Jake Barnes |
| Born to be wild | General Sternwood hires Marlowe to get Geiger, who has been blackmailing him with naughty pictures of his nymphomaniac daughter Carmen. The General explains: You see Mr. Marlowe, Carmen was born...born to be wild. (The Big Sleep) | Brian J. Smith |
| Rain, rain go away! | from THE CAINE MUTINY... As the typhoon rages and the ship is in danger of foundering, Lt. Maryk notices his captain issuing strange and contradictory commands. But when Queeg gives a direct order to the storm -- "Rain Rain Go Away" -- that does it! Maryk assumes command and the mutiny is on. | Jake Barnes |
| Smarter than the average ______. | In "The Harder They Fall", Eddie says to Toro: "You big dummy, you couldn't fight your way out of a wet paper bag".
Toro replies: "Duh yeah, but you got to admit I'm smarter than the averrrrrage Baer". | Brian J. Smith |
| One Ring to rule them all | Benko: Toro's gonna be the champ. He'll wear the One Ring To Rule Them All.
Willis: Yeah, but you wear a ring when you win the World Series. For Boxing you get a belt.
Benko: Somebody's gonna get a belt alright! | Bogeybart |
| Who's your daddy? | In "Tokyo Joe" when Joe Barrett returns from the war, he discovers that his wife Trina has divorced him and remarried and has a 7 year old daughter, Anya. Joe counting on his fingers turns to Anya and asks: "Ok schweetheart, who's your daddy?" | Brian J. Smith |
| Get your motors running! | Vivian Rutledge: (Eyeing Marlowe flanked by two lovely cocktail waitresses) Well, you do allright for yourself.
Marlowe: Get your Motors Running, girls.
Waitress #1: Gentleman, Start Our Engines! | Bogeybart
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| As Lana Carlsen kills Ed, she sings to herself, "Get your motors running!" They Drive By Night | Sue Rodgers
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| With a spooky little girl like you | Spade: "All we've got is that maybe you love me and maybe I love you."
Brigid: "You know whether you love me or not."
Spade: "Maybe I do. I'll have some rotten nights after I've sent you over, but that'll pass. Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you." The Maltese Falcon | Sue Rodgers |
| A mind is a terrible thing to waste. | Alan: "The trouble with me, Gabrielle, is I, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals."
Gabrielle : "That, that means you've got brains!"
Alan: "Hmmm. Yes. Brains without purpose. Noise without sound, shape without substance. A mind is a terrible thing to waste." The Petrified Forest | Ida Wright |
| Let's do the Time Warp again. | Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have it, we'd lost it, until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: Let's do the time warp again...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| Goodness gracious, great balls of fire! | Ilsa: Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By."
Sam: I can't remember it, Miss Ilsa. I'm a little rusty on it.
Ilsa: Well then, how about "Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls Of Fire?"...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| Make mine sarsaparilla. | Canino: Go ahead drink it. What do you think it is poison?
Little Jonesy: Uh, make mine sarsaparilla...The Big Sleep | Bogeybart |
| You're travelling through another dimension | Matt Brennan: What the hell was that?
Carl Troxell: That was the future, closing at the speed of sound! You're traveling through another dimension!...Chain Lightning | Bogeybart |
| He knows if you've been bad or good | In "Crime School" when Mark Braden takes charge of the boys reform school, The Dead End Kids get together and warn each other: "Watch out for Braden, he knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for gooness sake". | Brian J. Smith |
| A date that will live in infamy | Rick: "I remember the date well. A guy standing on a station platform in the rain with a comical look on his face, because his insides had been kicked out. It's a date that will live in infamy." Casablanca | Ida Wright |
| I have a dream | Renault: "We are very honored tonight, Rick. Major Strasser is one of the reasons the Third Reich enjoys the reputation it has today."
Strasser: "You repeat *Third* Reich as though you expected there to be others!"
Renault: "Well, personally, Major, I have a dream." | Sue Rodgers |
| These are the times that try men's souls. | Rick: "Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that these are the times that try men's souls." Casablanca | Ida Wright |
| Heeeeeere's Johnny! | Rocco to Sawyer: "You'd give your left arm to nail me wouldn't you? I could see the headlines now, 'Heeeeeere's Johnny! Local Deputy Captures Johnny Rocco'. Your picture'd be in all the papers." Key Largo | Ida Wright |
| Use "Patriots" and "Eagles" in your response. | Renault: "In 1935, you ran guns to Ethiopia. In 1936, you fought in Spain, on the Patriots side."
Rick: "I got well paid for it on both occasions."
Renault: "The Eagles would have paid you much better." Casablanca | Sue Rodgers |
| Surely you can't be serious. | Rose: "If we were to fill those cylinders with that blasting gelatin and then fix them so that they would stick out over the end of the boat, and then run the boat against the side of a ship, they would go off just like a torpedo, wouldn't they?..."
Charlie: "Surely you can't be serious." The African Queen. | Ida Wright |
| Life is a cabaret | Renault: Rick, there's going to be some excitement here tonight. We are going to make an arrest, a murderer no less. We could have made the arrest earlier at The Blue Parrot; but out of my high regard for you we are staging it here. It will amuse your customers.
Rick: Our entertainment is enough.
Renault: Life is a cabaret, old chum! ...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking. | morgan: (as gunfire sprays the hotel) stay down!
Slim: I think I'm sitting on somebody's cigarette.
Morgan: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking! To Have and Have Not | Bogeybart |
| Curses! Foiled again! | Eddie Bartlet: The boys are gonna take care of me good huh George?
George: That's right ( Eddie pulls his rod and begins pumping slugs into George) No, Eddie No, Crazy,Oh Curses, Foiled Again...The Roaring Twenties | Bogeybart |
| I'm sorry [Dave], I'm afraid I can't do that. | David Larrabee (referring to the glass shards in his you-know-what): "Can you do it without hurting me?"
Linus Larrabbee: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." Sabrina | Sue Rodgers |
| That was the most fun I've ever had without laughing. | >In "The African Queen" Charlie and Rose shoot the rapids after which Rose is ecstatic and says: "That was the most fun I've had without laughing". Charlie picks up a bottle of gin and says: "This is the most fun I'VE had without laughing". | Brian J. Smith |
| April Fool! | Croupier: "Do you wish to place another bet, sir?"
Jan: "No, no, I guess not."
Rick: "Have you tried 22 tonight? I said 22."
Croupier: "[A bunch of French followed by] vingt trois!"
Jan: "But... but... you said 22!"
Rick: "April Fool!" Casablanca | Sue Rodgers |
| Where everybody knows your name | Sabrina: "Once upon a time, on the north shore of Long Island, some 30 miles from New York, where everybody knows your name, there lived a small girl on a large estate." | Mike Rosenberg |
| I could have danced all night. | Renault: "what in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?"
Rick: "Dancing. I came to Casablanca for the calypso bands. I could have danced all night."
Renault: "The calypso bands? What calypso bands? We're in Africa."
Rick: "I was misinformed." | Sue Rodgers |
| Well, excuuuuuse me! | Marlowe: You do sell books? Hmm?
Agnes: What do those look like, grapefruit?
Marlowe: Well, excuuuuuse me! The Big Sleep | Ida Wright |
| If you go, where shall I go? What shall I do? | Rick: "I'm getting on that plane with Victor."
Ilsa: "If you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?"
Rick: "Okay, YOU'RE getting on that plane with Victor." Casablanca | Mike Rosenberg |
| Its origin and purpose are still a total mystery. | Hal Wallis: I don't get it. What the hell is a letter of transit anyway?
Howard Koch: It's Origin and Purpose Are Still a Mystery.
Mike Curtiz: Don't worry, I make it go so fast no one will notice! ...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| We're just a couple of wild and crazy guys! | Albert: "Even the girl herself called us angels."
Joseph: "We're no angels. We're just a couple of wild and crazy guys!" We're No Angels | Sue Rodgers |
| Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. | Vincent: Who are you and why do you want to help me?
Irene: My name is Irene Jansen. You can stay here until we figure out what to do.
Vincent: Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers...Dark Passage | Bogeybart |
| Be afraid. Be very afraid. | As Eddie corners a sniveling, cowardly George against the wall, he says: "Be afraid. Be very afraid" and then shoots him to death: "That's one rap you won't beat." The Roaring Twenties. | Ida Wright |
| Follow the money. | Spade: "We didn't believe your story, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy, we believed your 200 dollars. I mean you paid us more than if you had been telling us the truth, and enough more to make it alright. I always say, follow the money." The Maltese Falcon | Sue Rodgers |
| Stupid is as stupid does. | Two Mrs. Carrolls", as the police are leading Geoffrey away, Sally turns to Charles Pennington and says: "The dummy, he tried the same poisoned milk trick on me. Stupid is as stupid does...duh" | Brian J. Smith
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| Marlowe: "Everybody's always giving me guns! Stupid is as stupid does." The Big Sleep | Sue Rodgers
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| I think you're trying to seduce me. | Ugarte: "You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust."
Rick: "I think you're trying to seduce me." Casablanca | Sue Rodgers |
| Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night. | Judith: I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative!.
Ann: What's wrong, Judith?
Judith: You both know what's wrong, dear Ann. Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night. Dark Victory. | Ida Wright |
| Inalienable rights | Dumbroski: This is America, you can't do this. We've got rights.
Taylor: America for Americans. We got inalienable rights here. That means no rights for aliens like you. Now beat it!..Black Legion | Bogeybart |
| Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape! | As Nick Coster is being mauled by Caesar at the end of The Wangons Roll at Night, he exclaims, "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!"
Matt Varney: "That's a lion, not an ape!"
Coster: "Whatever!" | Sue Rodgers |
| I'm not a smart man. But I know what love is. | Spade: "Angel, I'm not a smart man but I know what love is. And this ain't it. You're taking the fall!" The Maltese Falcon | Sue Rodgers
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| Rick: "Ilsa, I'm not a smart man but I know what love is. If that plane takes off and you're not on it, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life." Casablanca, of course. | Mike Rosenberg
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| A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. | Marlowe: "I had to stand by while a harmless little guy was killed, without even a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down." The Big Sleep | Sue Rodgers |
| Kvetch! Kvetch! Kvetch! | Cairo: "You... you bungled it. You and your stupid attempt to buy it. Kemedov found out how valuable it was, no wonder we had such an easy time stealing it. You... you imbecile. You stupid fat-head you."
Gutman: "Kvetch! Kvetch! Kvetch!" The Maltese Falcon | Mike Rosenberg |
| Who's the leader of the club? | Prosecutor: Who's the leader of the club?
Frank Taylor: I'll tell you, only leave my wife and kid outta this!...Black Legion | Bogeybart |
| I coulda had class. | Panama: I can just picture you living in the suburbs, working in a garden, raising flowers and kids. Wouldn't that be a laugh?
Eddie: Yeah, wouldn't I look cute? But I coulda had class. The Roaring Twenties. | Ida Wright |
| Carpe diem! | Johnson: He's still hooked I tell you!
Harry Morgan: It's the weight of the line, he's jumping over there.
Johnson: What a monster, was it a swordfish?
Harry Morgan: Nah, just a little Carpe Diem...To Have and Have Not | Bogeybart |
| Here's my hope that we all find our Shangri-La. | Renault: It might be a good idea for you to disappear from Casablanca for a while. There's a Free French garrison over at Brazzaville [in French Equatorial Africa]. I could be induced to arrange a passage.
Rick: My letter of transit? I could use a trip. But it doesn't make any difference about our bet. You still owe me ten thousand francs.
Renault: And that ten thousand francs should pay our expenses.
Rick: Our expenses?
Renault: Yes, Rick. Here's my hope that we all find our Shangri-La. Casablanca. | Ida Wright
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| Vivian: "You've forgotten one thing - me."
Marlowe: "What's wrong with you?"
Vivian: "Nothing you can't fix."
Marlowe: "Here's my hope that we all find our Shangri-La." The Big Sleep | Mike Rosenberg
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| Easy come, easy go. | Howard: This is nature's biggest joke, the gold's gone back to the mountain!
Curtin: Oh well, EASY COME, EASY GO!...The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Bogeybart |
| Nobody knows the trouble I've seen. | Francy to Martin: "Couldya spare another 20 bucks? Nobody knows the trouble I've seen." Dead End. | Ida Wright |
| As you wish. | Rick: You're going home. You've had a little too much to drink. You'd better go with her, Sacha, to be sure she gets home.
Sacha: Yes, boss.
Rick: And come right back.
Sacha: (Sighing, as his face falls) Yes, boss. As you wish...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| Hit the road, Jack! | Dobbs: "Can you stake a fellow American to a claim?"
White suit: [upon giving him some money] "Hit the road, Jack!" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Sue Rodgers |
| All we are saying is give peace a chance. | Laszlo: "I ask only one thing. You won't give me the letters of transit: all right, but I want my wife to be safe. I ask you as a favor, to use the letters to take her away from Casablanca. All we are saying is give peace a chance." | Mike Rosenberg |
| Whaddya want, a medal? | Rose (as she empties the bottles of gin into the river): I am helping you overcome your drinking habit, Mr. Allnut.
Allnut: Whaddya want, a medal? The African Queen. | Ida Wright |
| If I only had a brain | Charlie: "Well I ain't sorry for you no more, ya crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid! If I only had a brain I'd put you ashore!" The African Queen | Mike Rosenberg |
| If I only had a heart | Rick: And remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart.
Renault: That is my least vulnerable spot. If I only had a heart. Casablanca. | Ida Wright |
| These are a few of my favorite things | Sternwood: "Do you like orchids?"
Marlowe: "Not particularly."
Sternwood: "Ugh. Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption. And these are a few of my favorite things about them." The Big Sleep | Sue Rodgers |
| You've got some 'splaining to do! | Goldhat: are you alone?
Dobbs: Oh no. No, I'm not alone. I've got a couple of friends comin' along on horseback.
Goldhat: That's funny, a man all by heemself in the bandit country, with a string of burros, and hees friends behind heem on a whore's back. You've got some 'splainin to do...The Treasure of the Sierra Madre> | Bogeybart |
| If you strike me down I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. | Laszlo: If I didn't give you the names in a concentration camp where you had more "persuasive methods" at your disposal, I certainly won't give them to you now. And what if you track down these men and kill them? From every corner of Europe, hundreds, thousands, would rise to take our places. IF YOU STRIKE ME DOWN I WILL BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE. Even Nazis can't kill that fast.
Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| Take it easy, killer. Stay loose. | Wilmer: Keep on ridin' me. They're gonna be pickin' iron out of your liver.
Spade: The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, huh? Take it easy, killer. Stay loose.
The Maltese Falcon | Ida Wright |
| And to all a good night | Taxi Driver: If you can use me again sometime, call this number.
Marlowe: Day and night?
Taxi Driver: Uh, night's better. I work during the day.
Marlowe: And to all a good night. The Big Sleep. | Ida Wright |
| You'll never find... | The bookseller in the Big Sleep (Dorothy Malone) says to Bogie. "You'll never find a Ben Hur 1860 or a Chevalier Audubon 1840. Nobody would. There isn't one." | Fred Sdao |
| I've seen the promised land! | In "The Oklahoma Kid" , John and Ned Kinkaid have a plan to develop an Oklahoma land rush site into a town. Not to be outdone, Whip McCord confronts them and says: "I've seen the promised land too and staked a claim on it. You'll have to give me the gambling and saloon rights before you can have it". | Brian J. Smith
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| Canino: There you are pal, drink it down. Well, what do you think it is, poison?
Jonesy: [Gulp, Gulp] I've seen the promised land!
The Big Sleep | Al, Beavis and Baa
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| I don't know nothing about ____ing no ____! | As Fred C. Dobbs asks Gold Hat for his men to show their badges, the outlaw sneers and says, "I don't know nothing about wearing no stinking badges!" Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Tara McBride
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| Rose: Could you make a torpedo?
Charlie: A torpedo?...You don't really know what you're askin'. I don't know nothin' about making no torpedoes!
The African Queen | Ida Wright
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| Sam: Miss Ilsa, you don't know nothing about singin no songs...Casablanca | Bogeybart
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| You're so vain... | In "Key Largo" after Gaye Dawn finishes "singing" her song, she turns to Rocco and says: "You're so vain, you think that this song was about you, don't you? Don't you? | Brian J. Smith |
| Use the names of at least two football teams. | Spade: Open it and we'll SEAHAWK.
Gutman: It's a fake! There must be two FALCONS!
Spade: A fine bunch of STEELERS you are.
Gutman: It's not fair for any one of us to BEAR the LIONS share of the loss, Mister Spade. I'll have to ask you to return those thousand dollar BILLS.
Spade: OK CHIEF. But the CARDINAL rule is I still need a fallguy and young wild west here, the two COLT PACKER, has been acting like a GIANT, TEXAN, COWBOY trying to RAM his tough guy act down my throat and stalking me around town like a PANTHER all day.
Gutman: Really Mister Spade, stop RAVEN and cool your JETS. We're RAIDERS not SAINTS. Besides Wilmer has flown like an EAGLE in the excitement. What about Miss O'Shaughnessy? Let the police CHARGER. There have BENGALS take the fall before.
Spade: OK, I guess. You BUCCANEERS have put me in a BROWN funk.
Gutman: Then if that's settled, we must be off. If the police catch us we'll all have REDSKINS. Come Joel. My JAGUAR is parked down the street.
Cairo: I prefer to follow in my BRONCO.
Brigid: Quit being such a PATRIOT Sam. You've got to let me go. I'm not one of the TITANS, I'm just a little fish.
Spade: Don't kid yourself Angel. You're a DOLPHIN.
Brigid: You, you, VIKING! You don't love me.
Spade : If they don't give you the chair you'll be out in 49er so. I'll wait for you...The Maltese FalconSam: Miss Ilsa, you don't know nothing about singin no songs...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| God, I wish I knew how to quit you! | Rip to Dusty. You know, you do awful good. I came here to - but go ahead. Put Christmas in your eyes and keep your voice low. Tell me about paradise and all the things I'm missing. I haven't had a good laugh since before Johnny was murdered. God, I wish I knew how to quit you. Dead Reckoning. | Ida Wright |
| Haste makes waste. | Roy: What's the matter with those guys? They're taking the wrong road!
Marie: (as the other car skids off the road and bursts into flames) How awful!
Roy: Haste makes waste! ...High Sierra | Bogeybart |
| Closing ceremonies | Allnutt: We want you to marry us before we hang.
Captain: Very well, I will perform the Closing Ceremonies...The African Queen | Bogeybart |
| And the winner is... | Marlowe: "Well, I can't tell till I've seen you over a distance of ground. You've got a touch of class, but I don't know how, how far you can go."
Vivian: "A lot depends on who's in the saddle."
Marlowe: "And the winner is... me." The Big Sleep | Sue Rodgers |
| After all, tomorrow is another day! | Gutman: Well, sir, what do you suggest? We stand here and shed tears and call each other names... or shall we go to Istanbul?
Cairo: Are you going?
Gutman: Yes. We will leave tomorrow and start all over again. After all, tomorrow is another day. The Maltese Falcon | Ida Wright |
| I'm a believer! | Charlie: "How'd you like it?"
Rose: "Like it?"
Charlie: "White water rapids!"
Rose: "I never dreamed..."
Charlie: "I don't blame you for being scared - not one bit. Nobody with good sense ain't scared of white water..."
Rose: "I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating! I looked death in the face. I saw it's face, now I'm a believer!" The African Queen | Sue Rodgers |
| What a dump! | In "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", Howard emerges from behind a bush pulling up his trousers and exclaims: "Ahhhhh....what a dump." | Brian J. Smith |
| He's a real nowhere man. | Renault: Last night you evinced an interest in Signor Ugarte.
Laszlo: Nothing important, but may I speak to him now?
Renault: You would find the conversation a little one sided. He's a real nowhere man...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. | Ugarte: You despise me, don't you?
Rick: Well, if I gave you any thought, I probably would. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. Casablanca | Ida Wright |
| Beam me up! | Charlie: (Holding out an empty glass as he watches Rose pouring out all of his gin) Ahh, Miss, Why'd you have to go and do a thing like that? Now I'll have to drink Bourbon. (Jim) Beam me up! ...The African Queen | Bogeybart
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| As she and Charlie are standing on the gallows, nooses around their necks, Rose thinks for a moment, "Now is the time, Lord. Beam me up!" The African Queen | Mike Rosenberg
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| It's my party and I'll cry if I want to. | In drunken despair, Judith embarks on a wild whirlwind of parties. Judith is seated at the bar at two AM, tipsy and boozing it up with Alec, and speaking about time.
Alec: "Judith - Why don't you go home and get some rest?"
Judith: "No. I want to stay here. It's my party and I'll cry if I want to." Dark Victory. | Ida Wright |
| Born to be wild! | Vivian: What will happen to Carmen?
Marlowe: She'll have to go away for a while. I guess some people are just Born To Be Wild...The Big Sleep | Bogeybart |
| Magic carpet ride | As Joe Fabrini pulls his truck over to the side of the road in They Drive By Night, he says to Cassie: "Get out of the rain. Come with me, little girl, on a magic carpet ride." | Tara McBride |
| You used to be big. | Frank McCloud in Key Largo: "You're Johnny Rocco, aren't you? Yeah, before they deported you, you used to be big." | Tara McBride |
| It had to be you. | from THE MALTESE FALCON:
"Miles hadn't many brains but he had too many years as a detective to be caught like that, up a blind alley with his gun in his hip pocket and his overcoat buttoned. But he'd have gone up there with you, angel. He would have licked his lips and gone grinning from ear to ear. Then you could have stood as close to him in the dark as you like with the gun you stole from Thursby. IT HAD TO BE YOU!" | Richard Dadier
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| As Rick Blaine stands in his darkened apartment above the café in Casablanca, he says to Ilsa, "Of all of the women in all of the gin joints in all of the world, it had to be you . . . | Tara McBride
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| Elementary, my dear ____ | Geoffrey: I'm sending you to a private school in London, Beatrice.
Beatrice: A prep school?
Geoffrey: Elementary, my dear Beatrice... The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Bogeybart |
| When the shark bites with his teeth, babe... | Spade: "You killed Miles and you're going over for it. You know when the shark bites with his teeth, Babe, you're taking the fall." The Maltese Falcon | Mike Rosenberg |
| Oh my papa! | Thomas Fairchild: "You're still reaching for the moon."
Sabrina Fairchild: "Oh my papa! No, the moon's reaching for me!" | Sue Rodgers |
| Life is but a dream. | Charlie: "All this fool talk about The Louisa. Goin' down the river..."
Rose: "What do you mean?"
Charlie: "I mean we ain't goin' to do nothin' of the sort. This ain't no row your boat gently down the stream life is but a dream!" The African Queen | Sue Rodgers |
| Home of the brave | Renault: "In 1935, you ran guns to Ethiopia. In 1936, you fought in Spain, on the Loyalist side."
Rick: "I got well paid for it on both occasions."
Renault: "The winning side would have paid you much better."
Rick: "I prefer the home of the brave to the land of the fee." Casablanca | Mike Rosenberg |
| I'm sorry, ____, I'm afraid I can't do that. | Ilsa: "Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake."
Sam: "I don't know what you mean, Miss Ilsa."
Ilsa: "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"
Sam: "I'm sorry, Miss Ilsa, I'm afraid I can't do that. I can't remember it." Casablanca | Sue Rodgers |
| Do you feel lucky, punk? | Rick: Do you feel lucky, Punk? Have you tried 22 black? I said 22!...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| Supercalifragilisticexpialidoceous | Charlie: How'd you like it?
Rose: Like it?
Charlie: White water rapids!
Rose: I never dreamed...
Charlie: I don't blame you for being scared - not one bit. Nobody with good sense ain't scared of white water...
Rose: I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating! It was supercalifragilisticexpialidoceous! | Sue Rodgers |
| Behind blue eyes | Renault: "What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?"
Rick: "My health. I came to Casablanca behind blue eyes for my health."
Renault: "Blue eyes? What blue eyes? Your eyes are brown."
Rick: "I was misinformed." | Mike Rosenberg |
| Brown-eyed handsome man | Rick: (Taking Strasser's little book) Am I really a handsome brown eyed man?
Strasser: Just a moment, that is Sam's page. Your's begins here. (points to the next page) | Bogeybart |
| Brown-eyed girl | Slim: "I'd rather you wouldn't call me Slim. I'm a little too skinny to take it kindly.
Steve: Should I call you brown-eyed girl or maybe Gloria? That's G... L... O... R... I... A... G-L-O-R-I-A..."
Slim: "I guess Slim is fine after all... and my eyes are blue." To Have and Have Not | Sue Rodgers |
| Irish eyes | Sam Spade to Brigid O'Shaunessy: "What have you ever given me? Have you given me any of your trust? You look at me with those Irish eyes, but there's nothing there for me . . . " The Maltese Falcon | Tara McBride |
| The ayes have it | Judith: Michael, Challenger belongs to me doesn't he?
Michael: Aye
Judith: And I can do with him as I please can't I?
Michael: Aye
Judith: Then The Ayes Have It! I want him entered in the Grand National and that's an end to it...Dark Victory | Bogeybart |
| Baby face | Mary Dwight: You killed my sister and my testimony is going to finish you.
Vanning: You'll keep your mouth shut if you know what's good for you. I'd hate to have to mess up that pretty BABY FACE, but if you talk you'll end up looking like that guy in Dead End.
Mary Dwight: Oh, The Horror!
Marlon: Hey, That's my line...Marked Woman | Bogeybart |
| Face facts | Spade: "Face facts, angel, you're taking the fall." The Maltese Falcon | Mike Rosenberg |
| Face the music | Rick: Sam, I thought I told you never to play that!
Sam: Sorry, but Miss Ilsa said it was time for you to FACE THE MUSIC...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| About face | Marlowe: (Fires a shot) Now what will your boys outside think? ABOUT FACE Mars, you're going out that door first...The Big Sleep | Bogeybart |
| The Great Pumpkin | As Dr. Xavier confronts Walter Barnett, he says, "Yes, I killed Angela Merova. Who did you think did it -- the Great Pumpkin?" The Return of Dr. X | Tara McBride
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| Joel Cairo: "You... you imbecile! You stupid fat-head you! The think you're the Great Pumpkin, but you're just a big fat stupid pumpkin!" The Maltese Falcon | Sue Rodgers
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| November rain | Rick: "Why did you leave me on that platform in the November rain?"
Ilsa: "November? Richard, it was June."
Rick: "I was misinformed." Casablanca | Sue Rodgers |
| Pearls before swine | Pearl: Joe, you've been at sea so long. What would you like to do first Darling?
Joe: We'll make love and then go out for some Bar-B-Cue pork.
Pearl: Alright Dear but, let's eat first, I'm starved.
Joe: Oh no, Pearls Before Swine! ...Action In the North Atlantic | Bogeybart |
| Thank your lucky stars | In "Sabrina" as he is picking the shards of glass from his brother David's butt, Linus says: "You can thank your lucky stars you didn't sit on a frozen banana because, you guessed it, we have no bananas, we have no bananas today". | Brian J. Smith
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| Rick: "Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that and thank your lucky stars. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid." Casablanca | Sue Rodgers
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| Leslie Howard: Either Bogart plays Mantee or you make the picture without me.
Jack Warner: You win, Bogey you should Thank Your Lucky Stars...The Petrified Forest | Bogeybart
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| Vivian: Do you always think you can handle people like, uh, trained seals?
Marlowe: Uh-huh. I usually get away with it too.
Vivian: Thank your lucky stars. -- The Big Sleep | Mike Rosenberg
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| Who can turn the world on with her smile? | Thomas Fairchild: "Democracy can be a wickedly unfair thing, Sabrina. Nobody poor was ever called democratic for marrying somebody rich, especially someone who can turn the world on with her smile." | Sue Rodgers |
| Happy New Year! | Rick: "I remember every detail. The Germans wore grey, you wore blue. We shouted Happy New Year!"
Ilsa: "Happy New Year? Not Happy New Year. Richard, it was June."
Rick: "I was misinformed." Casablanca | Sue Rodgers |
| What a day for a daydream! | Ugarte: Tonight, I'll be selling these letters of transit for more money than I have ever dreamed of. Then, addio, Casablanca!
Rick: (Disdainfully) What a day for a daydream. | Michelle Primeaux |
| Be afraid, be very afraid! | As Dr. Schlenna [Cuddles Sakall] chats with Humphrey Bogart near a Warners' sound stage, Bogie replies, "Boy, I hope that none of my fans find out about this. After all, they should be afraid, be very afraid . . . " Thank Your Lucky Stars | Tara McBride |
| Why do fools fall in love? | Brigid: "You didn't care at all! You don't love me!"
Sam: "I think I do. What of it? Oh, why do fools fall in love? But I won't play the sap for you. And you're STILL taking the fall." | Michelle Primeaux |
| To infinity, and beyond! | Matt: (Pushing the button on Troxell's new escape pod) To Infinity and Beyond!...Chain Lightning | Bogeybart |
| And the winner is... | "And the winner is" is actually taken from the Oscars. Bogart wanted that Oscar bad, even though he wouldn't admit it. He had been nominated before but seen the golden statue go in to the hands of other actors. He was not happy since he thought he deserved it.
So, there he was, once again, sitting, waiting, sweating, nominated for best actor in the movie, "the African Queen".He was sure he wasn't going to get the award. He could hear the words he have heard before, "And the winner is"...................Bogart almost fell out of his chair when his name came up. Finally, the well deserved Oscar was his. | Ron Holmstroem |
| I can't get no satisfaction | Maria Vargas: "I married Count Torlato-Favrini...and I can't get no satisfaction!" (Barefoot Contessa) | Michelle Primeaux |
| Chicken wings | In Love Affair, flight instructor and aeronautical engineer Jim Leonard, who is no chicken, wings his way into Carol Owen's heart. | Mike Rosenberg |
| Let's give 'em the old pizazz! | Charlie Allnut: You know, I been thinkin'. There ain't no need for us both to blow up the Louisa. Now I've had time to study it, I can plainly see it's a one-man job.
Rose: Don't be silly! We'll do it together. Come on, let's give 'em the old pizazz! (African Queen) | Michelle Primeaux |
| Hot time in the old town tonight | Rick: ( To Yvonne) You're going home.You've had a little too much to drink. Sacha, call a cab, and you better go with her to be sure she gets home.
Sacha: (Beaming) They'll be a hot time in the old town tonight!
Rick: And come right back.
Sacha: (His face falling) Yes, boss. | Bogeybart |
| Is anybody there? | As Gloves Donohue goes down the rickety cellar stairs under Miller's Bakery, he calls out, "Hey kitty, is anybody there?" All Through the Night | Tara McBride |
| On borrowed time | Pickpocket: Watch yourself, there are vultures. vultures everywhere!
Tourist: I say, that fellow just stole my watch
Gendarme: Yes, he lives On Borrowed Time! [Casablanca] | Bogeybart |
| Use it or lose it | As Jan is spinning the roulette wheel in Rick's Café in Casablanca, Rick tells him to play "22 use it or lose it." | Tara McBride |
| Use any part or all of: "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone? They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot." | Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot.
Renault: Paradise? What Paradise? There was no Paradise.
Rick: I was misinformed. | Sue Rodgers |
| Here today, gone tomorrow. | Sunshine: (pointing to a picture of Hitler) Herr Shickelgrueber, the house painter!
Gloves: Herr today, gone tomorrow! ...All Through the Night! | Bogeybart |
| Saved by the bell. | Marlowe: (Vivian cuts his bonds) Thanks Angel, looks like I've been Saved By The Belle!...The Big Sleep | Bogeybart |
| If I were a bell I'd be ringing. | Charlie: (Watching Rosie wash and dry their clothes before the attack) Thanks old girl, If I Were A Belle, I'd Be Wringing! ...The African Queen | Bogeybart
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| Gutman: You're a close-mouthed man?
Spade: Nah, I like to talk. If I were a bell I'd be ringing.
Gutman: Better and better. [The Maltese Falcon] | Sue Rodgers
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| Please, sir, I want some more. | This clue points to Treasure of the Sierra Madre when Bogie approached John Huston about money for staking a guy to a meal three times. | Dave Bubalo |
| Those were the days! | Gramp Maple: Billy the Kid once took a shot at me! He was a real desperado! THOSE WERE THE DAYS! ...The Petrified Forest | Bogeybart |
| Meathead! | Cairo: You... you imbecile! You bloated idiot! You stupid meathead you!
Gutman: Well, sir, what do you suggest? We stand here and shed tears and call each other names... or shall we stifle ourselves and go to Istanbul? [The Maltese Falcon] | Sue Rodgers |
| There's no place like home. | St. Louis: (sighing happily as he crosses the plate with the winning run in the annual prison baseball game) "There's No Place Like Home!"...Up The River | Bogeybart |
| You had me at "hello" | Spade: We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss O'Shaughnessy, we believed your 200 dollars. You don't think you had me at hello, do you? [The Maltese Falcon] | Sue Rodgers |
| I'm as corny as Kansas in August. | Sunshine: (pointing to a picture of Hitler) Herr Schicklegruber, the house painter.
Gloves: Aha, there's more here than meets the FBI.
Sunshine: My Girl Back Home makes awful puns like that.
Gloves: Sorry, I can't help it, I'm as corny as Kansas in August. What's your girls name anyway?
Sunshine: Bloody Mary is the girl I love.
Gloves: Call me a cockeyed optimist, but There is nothin' like a dame.
Sunshine: Mine makes me feel Younger Than Springtime.
Gloves: Enough of this Happy Talk, Let's round up this nest of fiver's. We'll show them Some Enchanted Evening down at the City Jail!...All Through the South Pacific Night | Bogeybart |
| Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? | Canino: What's the matter haven't you seen a gun before. You want me to count three like the movies.
Jonesy: Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? | Al, Beavis and Baa |
| Y'all come back now! | Rick's Café in Casablanca is being closed by order of the Prefect of Police. Sam the Piano Man sits mournfully tinkling on his piano as the customers file out, saying "Y'all come back now . . . " | Tara McBride |
| Downtown! | Strasser: Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris?
Rick: It's not particularly my beloved Paris.
Heinz: Can you imagine us in London?
Rick: When you get there, ask me!
Renault: Hmmh! Diplomatist!
Strasser: How about New York?
Rick: Try downtown. The lights are much brighter there. [Casablanca] | Sue Rodgers |
| Oh the weather outside is frightful | During a typhoon in The Caine Mutiny, Captain Queeg turns to his first officer and says, "Lt. Maryk, what should we do. Oh, the weather outside is frightful!" | Tara McBride
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| Dave Logan: Hap, thank goodness your safe! Why didn't you answer the radio?
Hap: We Tried, but the storm blocked our signal. Oh the weather outside is frightful! | Bogeybart
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| Put on a happy face. | Dave: I know you, Martin isn't it? I see you had your face fixed.
BabyFace: Yeah, a plastic job.
Dave: Too bad they couldn't have PUT ON A HAPPY FACE!...Dead End | Bogeybart |
| Use the words "Super" and "Bowl" | Cassie: Hello boys, what'll you have, SUPER sandwich?
Joe: Soup, I guess. Yeah, give me a cup.
Paul: Make it a BOWL and bring us a couple of straws...They Drive By Night | Bogeybart |
| Baby Face's Ma: "You dog, you dirty dog....you're a killer, murderer, a butcher for sure. You never brought nothin' but trouble!"
Baby Face Martin: "That's right Ma. I'm a baaaaaad boy!" | Michelle Primeaux |
| You used to be big. | John Huston: I just saw your latest picture, "Swing Your Lady," You Used To Be Big. What Happened?
Bogey: I am big, it's the pictures that got small... Overheard on the back lot.
| Bogeybart |
| But that's not important right now. | In "The African Queen", Charlie and Rose are captured by the German ship, "The Louisa". Charlie says to the Captain: "I know you're going to hang us but that's not important right now, because you see we want to get married (awwww). | Brian J. Smith
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| Rose: We came down river on The African Queen!
Captain: What's an African Queen?
Charlie: It's a native who wears women's clothes, But That's Not Important Right Now...The African Queen
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| Renault: Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.
Voice on phone: Suspects? What is it?
Renault: They're people we think committed a crime, but that's not important right now. (To himself: Oh, is it ever not important right now!) [Casablanca] | Sue Rodgers
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| Everything's coming up roses. | In Conflict, Dr. Hamilton knows Richard Mason killed Kathryn because, mulling over Richard's description of the last time he saw her, everything's coming up roses. | Sue Rodgers |
| What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome? | Victor: When I was in the concentration camp, were you lonely in Paris?
Ilsa: Yes, Victor, I was.
Victor: I know how it is to be lonely. Is there anything you wish to tell me?
Ilsa: What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?...Casablanca | Bogeybart |
| It's been quite a ride. | In "The African Quen" as Rose and Charlie paddle to shore following the sinking of "The Louisa", Charlie turns to Rose nad says: "Well Miss, it's been quite a ride." | Brian J. Smith
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| Johnny Rocco, "Soldier, here's my gun. You win. It's been quite a ride. I'm coming out now. Soldier? Soldier?"
BANG! Key Largo | Tara McBride
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| Chain Lightning
As Bogie's testing the ejection pod hoping that all the new pressure readings are correct after his friend died from the same test. In his mind he is remembering his friends last words that saves his life. | J DiMartino
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| Albert: Even the girl herself called us angels.
Joseph: It's been quite a ride, but we're no angels. | Sue Rodgers
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