My Left Footloose

Mean Streets, and Meaner Sagebrush

Private eye Phillip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) drives a friend (James Keach) from LA to Tijuana. When he returns home, he finds a posse waiting to arrest him for aiding and abetting the escape of his friend, who turns out to be none other than Jesse James! Dogged, relentless Marlowe tracks Jesse from his apparent suicide in Mexico back to Missouri, catching up with him just as Robert Ford (Nicholas Guest) guns the outlaw down.

The Long Goodbye Riders

Cheat sheet The Long Goodbye | The Long Riders

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These How do you like your brandy, sir? In a glass. | Remind me never to play poker in this town.

In 1969, MGM released a movie called Marlowe, based on Chandler’s short story "The Little Sister". It starred James Garner and Bruce Lee, which pretty much blew my mind. Here’s their first meeting.

My Left Footloose Wishes it Could be a Hard-as-Nails, Wisecracking Private Investigator

Raymond Chandler, the creator of iconic PI Phillip Marlowe, was born on this date back in 1888. He and Dashiell Hammet pretty much redefined the mystery novel with their work, forever linking the idea of film noir with the movies they inspired.

So happy birthday, Raymond. Thanks for everything.

~Rick

Here’s a little wit and wisdom from the man himself.

That’s It. I’m Never Going Fishing Again.

Two fly-fishing brothers (Craig Sheffer and Brad Pitt) accidentally hook the body of a young woman out of Boston’s Mystic River. The discovery of the corpse draws them into the childhood tragedy that links three men (Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, and Tim Robbins), where suspicion, misunderstanding, and the neighborhood code of silence lead to another tragic murder.

A Mystic River Runs Through It

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The chilling confession scene from Mystic River.

“I’m Doghouse Riley. I Was a Friend of Alex’s.”

Private detective Phillip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by the invalid General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to investigate the suicide of his son. Marlowe insinuates himself into the weekend-long wake hosted by the dead son’s friends at a North Carolina house, and uncovers a twisted tale of deviant sex and unfulfilled potential.

The Big Chilly Sleep

Cheat sheet The Big Chill | The Big Sleep

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Bacall calls Bogey’s bluff (and the police station) in the wonderful prank call scene from The Big Sleep. Nice bantering dialogue, and very nice timing.

You Know the Old Saying: A Boy in Every Port

Socialite Tracy Lord (Katherine Hepburn) must choose between fiancee George Kittredge (John Howard) and ex-husband C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant). The dilemma is resolved when a secret Navy project accidently sends Haven forty years into the future, where he falls in love with disgraced attorney Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks). Complications ensue when the two men, while working on a complex legal case, are interviewed by tabloid reporter Mac Connor (Jimmy Steward) who had been a third competitor for Tracy's hand forty years previously.

The Philadelphia Experiment Story

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Some people are bullfighters. Some people are politicians. I'm a photographer taking pictures of drug dealers in bad blond wigs.

A 1960's London fashion photographer bored with his life accidentally captures what he believes is a crime on film. After successively blowing up the original negative into larger and larger formats, he discovers the crime is actually forcing Johnny Depp as drug dealer George Jung to wear an horrifically ugly blond wig and contrasting 70's porn star moustache. All is not lost, though, as the photographer still gets to bag Vanessa Redgrave and smoke a lot of Turkish weed with models wearing mini skirts.

Blow Up

Cheat sheet Blowup | Blow

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Still A Classic After All These Years

Psycho Killer, Qu'est-ce Que C'est?

David Byrne has a problem: whenever he wears his Big Suit, he sees dead people!

Stop Making the Sixth Sense

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Ah, to be nineteen again. We did that thing with the lamp over and over and over.

They're thinking, "Duchovny thought his career would get better after this?"

Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a chauvenistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.

The X Files: What Women Want to Believe

Cheat sheet The X Files: I Want to Believe | What Women Want

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Because Your Virginity is Just Too Big to Take To College

After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and her perky starlet niece convince a high school senior and his best friends to drive cross-country to hook up with them for a weekend of intrigue and prostitutes.

Mulholland Sex Drive

Cheat sheet Mulholland Drive | Sex Drive

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Coming of age comedy Sex Drive, from the guy who brought us christian-rocker-frozen-food comedy Never Been Thawed, opens tonight.

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Lecter: Those Nerds Are a Threat to Our Way of Life

At the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA, a group of bullied outcasts and misfits must collaborate with an incarcerated and manipulative killer (Curtis Armstrong as Dudley "Booger" Dawson) to catch another serial killer whose modus operandi includes humiliation and wedgies.

The Silence of the Nerds

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The Allure of Small Town Girls

A young FBI agent, investigating a murder that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer, falls in love with a beautiful but awkwardly shy girl who has a heartbreaking secret (ssssh! it's cancer!) and a pet mynah bird.

Twin Peaks: A Fire Walk to Remember

Cheat sheet Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me | A Walk to Remember

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Oh What a Beautiful Kidnapping! Oh What a Beautiful Crime!

Seven lonely brothers, all career serial killers, target egregious examples of each of the seven deadly sins (sloth, avarice, gluttony, etc.) in order to impress each of seven sisters they have kidnapped and convince them to marry them.

Se7en Brides for Se7en Brothers

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The Great Red Dragon and the Guy Clothed in Another Guy's Skin

Robert Downey Jr. builds a William Petersen suit to track down the psycho who’s been slaughtering families and selling his weapons to terrorists. Jeff Bridges is at his creepiest as Hannibal Lecter.

Iron Manhunter

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The original Hannibal Lecter may well be the creepiest.

Speaking of creepy, expand your art appreciation horizons with The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with Sun by William Blake. Despite its biblical backstory, the painting was the primary inspiration of Red Dragon and Manhunter serial killer Francis Dollarhyde.

In Spanish, Xerox-Gato in a Sombrero!

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a mischievous cat who is upending suburbia in search of his three-handled moss-covered family credenza.

Copycat in the Hat

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Albania's Hard To Rhyme

With elections coming up, a White House advisor and a Hollywood producer fake a war in order to cover-up a presidential scandal involving an ear, a can of gasoline, and one man's refusal to tip his waitress.

Wag the Reservoir Dogs

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We're going to have a lovely murderpoo!

Several famous literary detective characters (Dick and Dora Charleston, Sam Diamond, Jessica Marbles, Sidney Wang) and their sidekicks are invited to participate in a brutal post-apocalyptic cross-country road race.

Murder by Death Race

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Ed. note: Honestly, this one is funnier than the Death Race mash-up we did last week. I don't know what we were thinking.

It's Ladies' Night at the Beer Hall Putsch

Four very different college girls drive to Fort Lauderdale for spring break and discover a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

Where the Boys from Brazil Are

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Moneypenny is the M'aitre D'

As he investigates a missing colleague in the Caribbean, James Bond's life changes forever when he becomes the guardian of his precocious young niece. Could love with sous-chef Nick be far behind?

Dr. No Reservations

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What's the Most You Ever Lost on a Coin Toss?

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy (fathered by cuddly boy-next-door Javier Bardem), a small town sheriff named Juno (Tommy Lee Jones) offers a stash of heroin and $2 million in cash to prospective adoptive parents.

Juno Country for Old Men

Cheat sheet Juno | No Country for Old Men

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Are You a Unicorn?

FBI agent Fox Mulder is reunited with his old partner Margaret Cho,against her objections, to locate a frozen girl for Billy Connolly and his big white hair. Along the way Mulder must confront his attraction to the unexplainable, while Cho pees the bed, dates Quentin Tarantino, and ducks phone calls from her mom.

X-Files: I'm the One That I Want to Believe

Cheat sheet X-Files: I Want to Believe | I'm the One That I Want

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I Met Him in a Swamp Down in Dagoba (Now the Song's Stuck in Your Head, Too)

After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, Luke Skywalker discovers that he can "see" the actions of Darth Vader through his own eyes. He turns to police investigator Yoda for help, while the Rebels attempt to destroy the Second Death Star.

Return of the Jedis of Laura Mars

Cheat sheet Return of the Jedi | The Eyes of Laura Mars

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Here's a fan-made video of "Yoda" by Weird Al Yankovic.

He's Hitler With a Tail!

Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the harassment of a mouse by two idiots determined to render their house vermin-free.

The Great Mouse Detective Hunt

Cheat sheet The Great Mouse Detective | Mousehunt

Contributor the procrastinator

Not Hitler with a tail... (from Cute Overload)

Are You Crazy? Is That Your Problem?

When a reformed jewel thief is suspected of returning to his former occupation, he must have himself certified insane to avoid jail.

To Catch 22 Thieves

Cheat sheet To Catch a Thief | Catch-22

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Son, you got a panty on your head.

H.I McDunnogh (Nicolas Chage) tries to mend his outlaw ways to raise a family, but must return to his life of crime when he finds out his wife (John Lithgow) is really a serial killer in drag.

Raising Arizona Cain

Cheat sheet Raising Arizona | Raising Cain

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Double Your Tommy Lee, Double Your Fun

After retiring from a super-secret agency that monitors and controls aliens on Earth, Tommy Lee Jones winds up as a Texas sherrif caught up in a complicated mess involving an interstellar drug deal gone bad and Lara Flynn Boyle as a hitman with a hairstyle so poofy she MUST be an alien.

No Country for Old Men in Black II

Cheat sheet No Country for Old Men | Men in Black II

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