spdspk wrote:mattstan wrote:
Could it be as easy as 12 Angry Men, though I don't actually remember the quotation? Not sure whether it would be Henry Fonda who says it or maybe a narrator at the start or end? I loved the film, but why-oh-why, having avoided all names but Juror Number N all the way through, do Fonda and the old guy have to introduce themselves to each other at the end? It always annoys me.
Next:
You and I have a tendency towards corpulence. Corpulence makes a man reasonable, pleasant and phlegmatic. Have you noticed the nastiest of tyrants are invariably thin?
Not 12 Angry Men. I thought it was a giveaway (like the Charles Laughton Senator question..)
Hint: Think, as the British would put it, "knickers"...
Have not figured out the quote you gave, but I think the critical word is "tyrants". Neither Hitler nor Mussilini were thin, Caligula?
Well with the clue it's pretty obvious Anatomy of a Murder again. Though the same clue could be also be for The Accused another court room drama that mentions knickers, but it's not a major plot point as it is in AoaM, and the dialoge is all wrong for a late 80's movie but fits perfectly for the 50's.
My quotation is said by Charles Laughton. Neither Hitler nor Mussolini were alive in the time period in question. Does that help?
What nationality are you?