Gone With The Bushes

"Who am I to cost the Russian people seven cows?" Ninotchka (1939) directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglass, Felix Bressart and Bela Lugosi Next Time: The Godfather (1972)

"That tears it." Double Indemnity (1944) directed by Billy Wilder and starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. Next Time: Ninotchka (1939)

"Are you suggesting that this is a knife I hold in my hand?" Gaslight (1944) directed by George Cukor and starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten and Angela Lansbury. Next Time: Double Indemnity (1944)

"I'm a little black woman in a big silver box!" Jumpin Jack Flash (1986) directed by Penny Marshall and starring Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Pryce, and Carol Kane. Next Time: Gaslight (1944)

"Does it really matter as long as you are having fun?" Cabaret (1972) directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. Next Time: Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)

"You're old, you're white and you got no gimmick." Ishtar (1987) - Written and Directed by Elaine May and starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman. Next Time: Cabaret (1972)

"She's primitive, she has no spirit, no wit, no conversation, and she has to be vacuumed every time she eats." A New Leaf (1971) written, directed and starring Elaine May with Walter Matthau, Jack Weston, George Rose and Doris Roberts.

"You talkin' to me?" Taxi Driver (1976) directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Albert Brooks and Peter Boyle. Next Time: A New Leaf (1971)

"I like my convictions undiluted, same as I do my bourbon." Jezebel (1938) directed by William Wyler and starring Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Fay Bainter, Donald Crisp, Theresa Harris and Eddie Rochester Anderson. Next Time: Rocky (1976)

"How's the family?" Purple Rain (1984) directed by Albert Magnoli and starring Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day and Clarence Williams, III. Next Time: Jezebel (1938) 

"It's not how many you shoot.  It's who you shoot." Harlem Nights (1989) Directed by Eddie Murphy and starring Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Della Reese, Arsenio Hall, Jasmine Guy and Danny Aiello. Next Time: Purple Rain (1984)

"We weren't assigned.  We were requested." The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) directed by Robert Markowitz and starring Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance, Andre Braugher and Cuba Gooding, Jr. Next Time: Harlem Nights (1989)

"You eat the holes outta donuts!" Do The Right Thing (1989) produced, written and directed by Spike Lee and starring Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, John Turturro, Bill Nunn and Giancarlo Esposito. Next Time: The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)  

"It is my duty and the duty of each member of our race to help destroy ignorance and superstition." Within Our Gates (1920) - Produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux and starring Evelyn Preer, Floy Clements, Charles D. Lucas, and Jack Chenault. Next Time: Do The Right Thing (1989)

"Make your thoughts into things that are said." How Green Was My Valley (1941) directed by John Ford and starring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp and Roddy McDowall. Next Time: Kick off Black History Month!  Within Our Gates (1920)

"Rosebud." Citizen Kane (1941) Directed by Orson Wells and starring Orson Wells, Joseph Cotten and Dorothy Comingore. Next Time: How Green Was My Valley (1941)

"I just said I'd write it. I didn't say I wouldn't tear it up." His Girl Friday (1940) Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy. Next Time: Citizen Kane (1941)

"Follow the money." All The President's Men (1976) directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam and Jason Robards. Next Time: His Girl Friday (1940)

"Nothing is impossible at Christmas!" Christmas Incorporated (2015) directed by Jonathan Wright and starring Shenae Grimes-Beech, Steve Lund and Jane Moffat. Next Time: All The President's Men (1976)

"My I suggest using your night stick Officer?" Trading Places (1983) Directed by John Landis and starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche. Next Time: It's A Wonderful Life (1946) and A TBD Hallmark Movie

"I wish I had your confidence without your viewpoint." Holiday Inn (1942) directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astair and Louise Beavers Next Time: Trading Places (1983)

"Doctor, do I call you a pill-peddler?" The Shop Around The Corner (1940) directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan and Frank Morgan. Next Time: Holiday Inn (1942) 

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Allford and Brock Peters. Next Time: The Shop Around The Corner (1940)

"How many drinks does it take to put you in that tropical island mood?" Sweet Smell of Success (1957) directed by Alexander Mackendrick and starring Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster Next Time: To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

"I see dead people" The Sixth Sense (1999) directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette and Olivia Williams. Next Time: Sweet Smell of Success (1957)