“Movie Movie” quotes
(1978)
Title Movie Movie
Year 1978
Director Stanley Donen
Genre Comedy, Musical, Sport
Year 1978
Director Stanley Donen
Genre Comedy, Musical, Sport
Plot – Film in two episodes. "Boxeur" - Joey becomes a boxe champion to pay his college's tuition fees, but his coach Vince wants him to lose a match. Joey refuses but it costs the life of Gloves, his old coach and friend. Joey then leaves the sport and becomes a lawyer to sue Vince. "Ballerina" - A Broadway impresario organizes a great show with the music of a stranger and a very young dancer performs triumphantly.
All actors – George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons, Eli Wallach, Harry Hamlin, Ann Reinking, Jocelyn Brando, Michael Kidd, Kathleen Beller, Barry Bostwick, Art Carney, Clay Hodges
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“I can see with one eye tied behind my back!”
“- Joey Popchik: Age before beauty.
- Gloves Malloy: After you.”“- Spats Baxter: Can you play the piano?
- Dick Cummings: Like a mink.”“If any part of the human body has a tendency to break down, the eyes have it.”
“Gentlemen of the jury, the state cries out that the murder of Gloves Malloy be avenged. It cries so loud that I finished law school as fast as I could so that poetic justice could be served and so that I personally could prosecute the man responsible, Vince Marlowe.”
“One minute you're standing in the wings, and the next minute you're wearing them.”
“We cannot bring Gloves Malloy's death back to life.”
“- Joey Popchik: Can I walk you home?
- Betsy McGuire: New York's a free country.”“With the woman that you love at your side to stand behind you, a man can move mountains with his bare heart.”
“- Joey Popchik: I'm fighting in the Garden tomorrow night.
- Gloves Malloy: I heard it in the papers.”“It was the late great Gloves Malloy who said how hard it is to say what there are no words for.”
“Joey, after a girl's had a taste of mink, she can't go back to pastrami.”
“Mrs. Popchik, as you know, the eye is the second most sensitive organ on the human body. Your young daughter's eye muscles are extremely weak. They can barely hold up what she sees.”
“When a man says what's right, what's good, what's real, and what's true, then his mouth is ten feet tall.”
“Funny, isn't it? How many times your guts can get a slap in the face.”
“The big guy only gives us three acts down here. Play them with style!”
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