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Netflix Musical Serendipity Trivia Q

#1 Post by smilergrogan » Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:57 am

Over the weekend I saw back-to-back from Netflix: "The History Boys" (pretty good) and "Anzio" (awful). What song figures prominently (i.e., is sung by major characters) in both films?
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#2 Post by Bob Juch » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:25 am

I haven't seen Anzio, but I'll guess:
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#3 Post by smilergrogan » Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:07 am

Bob is correct. Peter Falk singing Ciao, Ciao Blackbird to some Italian women of questionable repute was about the best part of "Anzio". I certainly didn't learn much about what happened at Anzio, as it quickly devolved into a generic war movie with a handful of American guys (including a very young "Poppie" from Seinfeld!) exchanging bullets with a handful of German guys. The American guys won.
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#4 Post by secondchance » Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:58 pm

smilergrogan wrote:Bob is correct. Peter Falk singing Ciao, Ciao Blackbird to some Italian women of questionable repute was about the best part of "Anzio". I certainly didn't learn much about what happened at Anzio, as it quickly devolved into a generic war movie with a handful of American guys (including a very young "Poppie" from Seinfeld!) exchanging bullets with a handful of German guys. The American guys won.
A very young Reni Santoni (Poppie from Seinfeld) starred in the comedy from the 60's called "Enter Laughing." Directed by Carl Reiner, it's a kind of semi-autobiographical story. Rob Reiner had a quick debut in this movie, and the cast also included Shelly Winters, Elaine May and Don Rickles. It was pretty darn funny, if memory serves... :)
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#5 Post by frogman042 » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:01 am

Second Chance wrote:
smilergrogan wrote:Bob is correct. Peter Falk singing Ciao, Ciao Blackbird to some Italian women of questionable repute was about the best part of "Anzio". I certainly didn't learn much about what happened at Anzio, as it quickly devolved into a generic war movie with a handful of American guys (including a very young "Poppie" from Seinfeld!) exchanging bullets with a handful of German guys. The American guys won.
A very young Reni Santoni (Poppie from Seinfeld) starred in the comedy from the 60's called "Enter Laughing." Directed by Carl Reiner, it's a kind of semi-autobiographical story. Rob Reiner had a quick debut in this movie, and the cast also included Shelly Winters, Elaine May and Don Rickles. It was pretty darn funny, if memory serves... :)
Enter Laughing was on TCM not that long ago and I hadn't seen it since I was a mere tyke. Also the showed Five Easy Pieces as well not that much earlier - seeing those two films caused me to generate the following trivia question:

What unites the movies:
Enter Laughing
Lonely Are the Brave
Klute
and Five Easy Pieces

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#6 Post by WheresFanny » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:42 am

It's also in Melvin and Howard. I love hearing Jason Robards singing it. And Glenn Close did it in Maxie, but not as good (although I am probably the one person in the free world who even knows that movie, much less loves it. Ha!).

Can you tell this is one of my all time favourite songs?
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#7 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:41 am

WheresFanny wrote:It's also in Melvin and Howard. I love hearing Jason Robards singing it. And Glenn Close did it in Maxie, but not as good (although I am probably the one person in the free world who even knows that movie, much less loves it. Ha!).

Can you tell this is one of my all time favourite songs?
I love Maxie! How come it never comes around on the late show?

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