Name That Movie!

[Long Run]

This is how I visualize the leading participants when a new quote comes up:

[Gob]

Since this one is probably pretty obscure, I'll start out with a clue:


.

Great clue Jim!!


Who the fuck are they?

[MajGenl.Meade]

Here, this should help you

[Bicycle Bill]

Nice picture of some of the victims of CBS's "Rural Purge" of 1971.  Too bad Bea Benederet was missing, but she had already passed away back in 1968.
On the plus side, it did clear the way for some of the well-remembered "relevant" CBS sit-coms of the '70s like All in the Family, Maude, Mary Tyler Moore, The Bob Newhart Show, and so on.

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

Great clue Jim!!


Who the fuck are they?

Geez, you don't even recognize Eva Gabor?

[Lord Jim]

Okay, new clue:



ETA:

BTW, if you want to write me out of getting a quote, all you have to do is pick one from a chick flick...

No matter how good my memory may be for recalling film quotes, it won't help me if I've never seen the movie...

Or if it's a chick flick movie I "watched" because my SO insisted I do so... while my mind was actually focused on "who's going to win the game tonight?"...

[Gob]

Great clue Jim!!


Who the fuck are they?

Geez, you don't even recognize Eva Gabor?

Who?

[dales]

Gob....

Perhaps you are more familiar with her sister, a right tawdry criminal, that one!

[Lord Jim]

The Gabor Sisters, Zsa Zsa, and Eva, and Mother Magda:

[Gob]

Who are they?

[RayThom]

Not bad, Ray. A Cowboy and His Dog, King (played by 'Zoro')

Does anyone show their johnson in this film? If so I might have a fair guess.

[Lord Jim]

Not bad, Ray. A Cowboy and His Dog, King (played by 'Zoro')

Does anyone show their johnson in this film? If so I might have a fair guess.

Looks like you've put all the pieces together to give a good guess here Ray...

Or do you need some Moore help?

[RayThom]

Zsa Zsa Gabor -- it's so hard to believe that she and her first husband, Larry, will be 100 years old on Valentines Day.

[Lord Jim]

Who are they?

Okay, now I know you're prankin' me...

There's no way you've never heard of Zsa Zsa Gabor...

(If you were a 20 something I might buy it, but not from somebody who's my age... )

[oldr_n_wsr]

Taking a stab here
A boy and his dog?
(I guessed that only because of the miami vice poster)

[Lord Jim]

Taking a stab here
A boy and his dog?
(I guessed that only because of the miami vice poster)

After the classic On the Beach, this was one of the first "post-apocalyptic" sci-fi films made that have now become a whole genre... pre-dating the original Mad Max...(and unlike a lot of films in that genre that followed, it didn't take itself too seriously and had a lot of campy humor)

The actor from Green Acres who played a role in A Boy And His Dog (and was also a producer and screen writer for the movie) was Alvy Moore...the perpetually befuddled "county agent" Hank Kimball...



And the "well known film star" was Jason Robards:



Okay...

Over to you now Older...

One request...

Please don't pick a quote from Das Boot...

[BoSoxGal]

Was there a crossover between Green Acres and the Beverly Hillbillies? I grew up watching both in reruns, but didn't know that . . .

[Big RR]

As I recall, the Beverly Hillbillies visited Hooterville (where Green Acres took place) a couple of times during the series, but don't recall why. They also visited Bug Tussel a couple of times, but can't recall if this was part of the Green Acres family of towns (along with Pixley) or where Jed and his family originally came from ( the closest town); I think it's the latter.

Green Acres was also tied in with Petticoat Junction, with the train (the Cannonball) being the way to get from the Junction to Hooterville; the picture Jim posted shows a lot of the Petticoat Junction characters along with those of Green Acres and the Beverly Hillbillies (in fact, if I'm not mistaken, I'd bet the guy in the blazer next to Ellie Mae is holding Arnold Ziffel the pig, although it could be a baby--I think his character was married to the redhead), but the only common character in Green Acres and Petticoat Junction was shopkeeper Sam Drucker (second row, second from the left).

[Bicycle Bill]

Taking a stab here
A boy and his dog?
(I guessed that only because of the miami vice poster)

After the classic On the Beach, this was one of the first "post-apocalyptic" sci-fi films made that have now become a whole genre... pre-dating the original Mad Max...(and unlike a lot of films in that genre that followed, it didn't take itself too seriously and had a lot of campy humor)

I never saw the movie, but remember reading the short story by Harlan Ellison upon which is was based ... and as a (then) 16 or 17-year-old young adult I found it to be more than a little disturbing.  Didn't completely turn me off of sci-fi, but made me realize that the genre was not always going to be tales of Utopia with robots, computers, distant planets, and space ships.

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

Was there a crossover between Green Acres and the Beverly Hillbillies? I grew up watching both in reruns, but didn't know that . . .

Yes there was, and also Petticoat Junction:

The Hooterville Trilogy:

The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction

It started with the story of a man named Jed, a poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed. From there it turned into a mini-TV dynasty.

In 1962 The Beverly Hillbillies premiered. It told the story of Jed Clampett and his family. Having accidentally struck oil (black gold, texas tea) while hunting, mountain man Jed became instantly wealthy. His relatives convinced Jed that now being wealthy, for the good of his daughter Elly May he should move to posh Beverly Hills. Jed was happy living the hillbilly life but, for Elly's sake, agreed. So he loaded up his truck and they moved to Beverly... Hills that is. Swimmin' pools, movie stars.

The rest of the family consisted of his knockout gorgeous daughter Elly May who was strong as an ox and had a way with critters, er, animals. Jethro Bodine was Jed's nephew. Big, super strong, handsome and dumb as a, well, dumbass, Jethro tried to become a ladies man and a movie mogul. If he wasn't terminally retarded he might have succeeded (my apologies to retarded people - it was rude of me to lump you in with Jethro).

Granny was the matriarch of the family. Cranky and cantankerous, Granny specialized in "medcine" - otherwise known as high octane moonshine. Like Jethro and Elly, Granny also seemed somehow preternaturally strong and athletic. She looked to be one hundred years old and yet was still capable of running faster than is humanly possible all the while leaping over obstacles.

Also in the cast was Mr. Drysdale who ran the bank Jed kept his money in and his secretary Miss Hathaway. Mr. Drysdale was a live action incarnation of Daffy Duck's insatiable greed - he loooved money and would often bend over backward to make sure the Clampett's kept their money in his care.

At one point, Mr. Drysdale feared he might lose that money when the Clampetts headed home to the mountains for a multi-episode visit. Mr. Drysdale feared the Clampetts might decide to stay in the mountains and take their money with them. Once again Mr. Drysdale drove himself to madness making sure this didn't happen.

But something else happened during the Clampetts' visit home. It was revealed that the hills where the Clampetts were originally from were very close to a little town called Hooterville which also happened to be the setting for two other shows produced by the same people.

The first was a show called Petticoat Junction. Premiering in 1963, it was a sitcom about a hotel called The Shady Rest that sat next to the local train depot, or "junction" - Petticoat Junction. The hotel was run by widower Kate Bradley who had to watch over her three gorgeous daughters and keep them out of trouble.

There was also old Uncle Joe who was movin' kinda slow at the junction - Petticoat Junction.

A lot of other characters came and went but one who stayed for the entire run of the show was Sam Drucker who ran the town store.

The junction - Petticoat Junction - was called Petticoat Junction because Kate's daughters would go skinny dipping in the local water tower and leave their petticoats hanging over the edge of the water tower. The show's opening credits always showed the girls getting caught, popping their heads over the edge of the tower in front of the hung petticoats and then disappearing inside with them. I'm sorry. It actually would be the girls doing this along with the show's final star - their dog who was played by the original Benji before he found movie fame.

In 1965 the final member of the Hooterville Triology premiered. Green Acres was the mirror opposite of The Beverly Hillbillies. Whereas the Beverly Hillbillies were the story of a bunch of backwoods country hill folk living in the city, Green Acres was the story of a couple of city folk living in the backwoods country. Oliver Wendell Douglas was a big time Manhattan lawyer who, wanting a to live a simpler life bought a farm, packed up and moved to the country. Keep Manhattan just give him that countryside.

Once on his farm outside Hooterville, Oliver learned country life wasn't all it was cracked up to be. The farm was a dump. He hired people to repair the place but in the show's six year run the repairs were never completed. To answer the telephone he had to climb to the top of a phone pole where the phone was hanging. The neighbors were grimy country folks. He was constantly getting upset and frustrated with them all.

Oddly enough, his wife Lisa who never wanted to move to the country seemed to actually enjoy herself more, blithely carrying on her life as closely as she could to the same style and manner she had in the city.

In addition to the Douglas family, Hooterville had a number of other... colorful residents. The Ziffel were the grimy country folk I mentioned earlier. They treated their pig Arnold like one of the family. And to be blunt, Arnold was probably the smartest character on the show. Mr. Haney was the shifty traveling salesman. Eb Dawson was their handyman. Sam Drucker was... well the same guy he was on Petticoat Junction and in his guest appearances on the Beverly Hillbillies: the guy who ran the local store

While the Beverly Hillbillies only made the occasional guest visit to Hooterville, the casts of Green Acres and Petticoat Junction frequently bopped back and forth between shows with some like Sam Drucker being regulars on both shows

http://www.poobala.com/hooterville.html

One of the cast inconsistencies in this, (like that mattered) was that the actress Bea Benaderet, who played the matriarch Kate Bradley on Petticoat Junction, (she first became well known on television in the late 50s, playing the next-door-neighbor on the Burns and Allen Show...she was also the voice of Betty Ruble...) in the early episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies had played Jed's Cousin Pearl...

ETA:

Oh gee whiz, leave it to Big RR to beat me to the punch on the Petticoat Junction connection...