Favorite moments
Jasper Blubber: "One Gin Sling!"
Lou Peckinpaw: "I'll have the same."
Jasper Blubber: "No. One Gin Sling is the waiter."
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("dueling" national anthems)
Lou and Betty: "When The Deep Purple Falls...."
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Jezebel: My husband thanks I gave my lover all my jewelry.
Sam: So what did you give him?
Jezebel: Everything but my jewelry....
Jezebel: (in a heavy Swedish accent) "You are pretty fast on your tippy toes...Mr. Packenbush".
Peckinpaw: "I take it the old guy doesn't hear very well..."
Jezebel: "He hears everything we're saying".
Peckinpaw: "Oh".
Jezebel's dialogue was loaded, and so was her body language!
Jezebel: "Can I get you anything to nibble on?"(leaning over in her low-cut outfit, preparing a cocktail.)
Sam: "What you've got there looks pretty good."
Jezebel: "I know."
This is one of my favorite movies ever. I love the part where Lou Pekinpaugh is talking to Georgia Merkle right after they find out that her husband and his partner is dead. She flirts with him and he says something about "Georgia, I just had you on my mind". There is plenty of banter when he asks her if the police have come to see her and she says yes and he asks if they left and she tells him no they are right here. He just tells her something about we can't ever meet again. I know I laugh til I cry every time. I watch this movie about once a year and I enjoy it every time.
share1) The song that Lou Peckinpaugh doesn't want (Tinker) Scatman Crothers, the spoof of Sam (Dooley Wilson), to play turned out to be... Jeepers, creepers... where'd ya get them peepers.
That caught me by surprise so it was falling-off-the-seat funny. Obviously, I didn't expect them to use "As Time Goes By" but the substitute was so far out.
2) Betty DeBoop (Eileen Brennan) spends an evening with Lou and bids farewell the next day:
But if you ever get lonely Fred, you just call me. You know how to dial, don't you? Just put your finger in the little round hole.
This is the spoof of the you know how to whistle line by Slim (Lauren Bacall) in To Have and Have Not (1944).
3) Lou to Mrs. Montenegro (Madeline Kahn) who stopped by the office a second time in a lilac outfit with turban and calls herself Sophie DeVega:
Lou isn't buying her act anymore - not that he ever did the first time.
I'm getting sick and tired of playing "guess what the fruitcake's name is" today.
And Lou spoofs Sam Spade's You're good. You're very good. from The Maltese Falcon (1941) saying You're good baby but you're not that good.
4) The Schnell and Qvicker (sounds like "quicker") gag with Colonel Schlissel
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A lot of this movie cracked me up but there were 2 stand-out parts that made me laugh the loudest--
1. Lou gets slapped by his old flame: "I swallowed my gum!! YOU MADE ME SWALLOW MY GUM!" I can't fully explain why that one slays me so, probably a lot to do with Falk's delivery
2. The widow Merkle is hiding out in Lou's bathroom, he's trying to take his leave of her and she's asking him to promise he'll be back. Falk's brief line "I'm in here a lot" is great. I just love it..
I thought he shot into the potty after the husband's ashes have fallen in by accident, or is it just a flush?
Now that he's gone I have to watch it again.
Why ain't you at the garden party you heathen?
As someone mentioned earlier, when Lou gets slapped and he says "You made me swallow my gum!!!" just kills me every time. It's probably my favorite Peter Falk moment of all-time
Here's the clip
URL link: http://s1035.photobucket.com/albums/a432/NJNCS/?action=view¤ t=cheap-detective.mp4
Love that scene! The best part to me though is right before he flushes Floyd he says "now, now, no sense crying over spilt husband" then swoosh.
This movie has so many great little lines like that which are easy to miss due to Falk's (great!) deadpan delivery; all in all a very funny and sadly overlooked film...
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I liked it when Lou has a blonde in just about every room of his apartment. As one by one of them exits, the waiting secretary, at the door, says that she'll hang on if there is any more. Also Lou recalling the club in Paris where men and women use the same gown.
shareIt's "use the same john," as in bathroom/restroom. The best part for me is when Marlene surprises Lou at his apartment and starts re-arranging furniture and then talks about throwing their first party. Any married man will back me up.
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