Name That Movie!

[Guinevere]

This thread is as exciting as a cricket match.

[Gob]

[Lord Jim]

This thread is as exciting as a cricket match.

Now that's just cruel...

[Scooter]

Do you think another quote, or a hint, might help, because clearly no one is getting it.

[Lord Jim]

Okay...

WW II is correct, and it's set in Italy...

It's not an obscure movie; I'm sure sure nearly everyone here has heard of it and most have seen it....

[Scooter]

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

[Scooter]

More seriously, there was a movie about the Anzio landings, I only remember Peter Falk being in it. Was it just called Anzio? And is that it?

[RayThom]

Porkchop Hill

[Lord Jim]

More seriously, there was a movie about the Anzio landings, I only remember Peter Falk being in it. Was it just called Anzio? And is that it?

Actually...

You were right the first time...



"What kind of people are you!"

Great performances by Anthony Quinn and Hardy Kruger...

[Scooter]

LOL - seriously, that was completely intended as a joke. I've seen it 5 or 6 times at least and don't remember that line.

[Scooter]

Let's go back a little further, shall we?

Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon, we have the stars.

[Lord Jim]

LOL - seriously, that was completely intended as a joke. I've seen it 5 or 6 times at least and don't remember that line.

It's the first line from this exchange:

Italo Bombolini: It's nice to have a hot meal before you die.

Rosa Bombolini: You aren't going to die.

Italo Bombolini: I'm the mayor, no? The Germans come. I greet them. They threaten me! I spit in their face! They put a pistol to my head and blow out my brains!

Rosa Bombolini: Why would they put a pistol to your head? The whole world knows Bombolini's brains are in his ass.

[Scooter]

Thanks - that I remember.

[datsunaholic]

Okay...

WW II is correct, and it's set in Italy...

It's not an obscure movie; I'm sure sure nearly everyone here has heard of it and most have seen it....

Well, I'd never heard of it. Admittedly I don't watch very many films; when the Academy award nominees come out it's a good year if I've even heard of half the best picture nominees, let alone having seen one. In fact, I've only seen 4 of the last 25 Best Picture WINNERS, none of which were in the last 12. I couldn't tell you the basic plot or who was in the last 5 Best Picture winners. I've seen 2 of last year's nominees, but only months after the Oscars, and only because they were both shown on HBO since I got a subscription as part of my internet package. I watch movies, but usually only specific genres. I've seem more recent films of late than I have in the past- normally I'd see maybe 5 movies I'd never seen before in a year, mostly on TV or because I found the DVD of a decade-old film I hadn't seen in a $5 bargain bin.

[Long Run]

It's not an obscure movie; I'm sure sure nearly everyone here has heard of it and most have seen it....

I guess you are right that it is not an obscure movie since it won a Golden Globe, but in a country of 320 million people, I'd guess that no more than a few million have seen all or even a part of the Secret of Santa Vittoria. This movie came out in 1969 (that's 47 years ago for those keeping score), was considered a box office disappointment, and I do not recall ever seeing it on the television schedule, so it's not the type of movie that gets a decent audience in reruns (like the Eastwood/Leone westerns of the same vintage). So, given the age of the movie, its unpopularity when it came out, and the limited to no-reruns, it is fair to say it has definitely fallen into obscurity (though it looks pretty good from the description).

[Lord Jim]

I read the book when I was in High School, and saw the movie for the first time on a local broadcast TV station...

In making this assumption:

"I'm sure sure nearly everyone here has heard of it and most have seen it"...

I was taking into account the average age demographic of our participants...

[MajGenl.Meade]

This thread is as exciting as a cricket match.

I'm getting tired of demeaning remarks about cricket. This thread is much worse.

[Bicycle Bill]

This thread is as exciting as a cricket match.

I'm getting tired of demeaning remarks about cricket. This thread is much worse.

Cricket is just something else the Brits do in order to be different, like drive on the left side of the road, make up different names and spellings for things ('chips' for French fries, 'crisps' for potato chips, 'boot' for the the trunk of a car, 'bonnet' for the hood, and 'tyre' for the round rubber things at the corners), and still use an archaic and arbitrary system of pounds, shillings, pence, bob, quid, guineas, sovereigns, and farthings for their money — even after joining an economic group whose base unit is the Euro.

If I were given a choice, I would take the time to attend a game of make-believe Quidditch before I would go to a cricket match.

-"BB"-

[MajGenl.Meade]

Except since we did them all first, it's USians who did things just to be different.

But anyway, is there a movie quote somewhere in all this?

[Lord Jim]

But anyway, is there a movie quote somewhere in all this?

Since we've had a lot of digression posts, I'll repost the current quote:

Let's go back a little further, shall we?

Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon, we have the stars.