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December 9

Which Movies were These, Please ?

I watched Sea of Love (film) (1989) more than once, and on two occasions, forgetting the first one when the second occurred earlier this year, I thought I had missed an amusing scene, and looked back at the Movie at the place I thought I missed on the disc but did not see it.

The scene I thought was in it, and perhaps indeed is, but could be in another film, is one where a cop, and if in another film, it could still be Al Pacino, is waiting for someone outside a flash international school where diplomats and such send their kids, and he notices another man standing about ten yards the other side of the gate, and they acknowledge each other, but within a minute, they end up pulling their guns on each other, but it turns out the other guy was a bodyguard for I think the child of an Iranian diplomat, so all is good. The actor playing him resembled the Canadian Elias Koteas, who himself bears a slight lookalike to Robert de Niro, but I cannot recall any other movie that this was in.

Also, while I am here, I may as well ask about another movie I have made mention of three times before over the past twelve years, to see if anyone else is now reading, or others who have heard it might now remember - a film from about 1987, where a mother finally finds her missing son in New York, but the drug dealer he is with has him as a slave, and will not let him go, so the lady calls a uniformed street cop, who challenges the crook. This reprobate makes the mistake of drawing on the middle aged officer, who shoots him dead, and mother and son are reunited. It is similar to the David Ogden Stiers TV Movie The Kissing Place, but that is not it. Any help ? Thanks. Chris the Russian Christopher Lilly 08:59, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Can anyone identify this black and white film?

Hi, Google has failed me entirely, and the Wikipedia list of films with time travel is very long.

The film is black and white (and I am guessing 1950s as the decade it was made, but that could be wrong). The lead character is a woman married to a playwright. The marriage is terrible and she shoots him on New Year's Day. She wakes up a year before and resolves to change what happened. She bends over backwards to be more supportive of her husband but nothing works and he tries to kill her on New Year's Day, so she shoots him in self-defence and the scene looks exactly like the previous New Year that she tried to avoid. Her friend, a poet, takes the blame.

I thought the poet was played by Richard Widmark but can't find anything obviously similar in his filmography.

Red Fiona (talk) 11:38, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

That'll be Repeat Performance (1947).  Card Zero  (talk) 11:57, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Red Fiona (talk) 12:22, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

That'll be Repeat Performance (1947).  Card Zero  (talk) 11:57, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

That'll be Repeat Performance (1947), showing in a double bill with Groundhog Day. MinorProphet (talk) 21:37, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

What type of jacket is Jackie Gleason wearing in this Honeymooners episode (funny money)?

Thanks so much!

The jacket in question

2600:1702:690:F7A0:48F3:C2C5:3432:29C0 (talk) 20:57, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

A sport coat or in the UK, a sports jacket. The pattern might be described as a "loud check" (best avoided). Alansplodge (talk) 23:41, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

I concur that this is a sports coat. As far as the pattern, This article discusses various types of check patterns; from what I see there, this is probably closest to "windowpane check" or "tattersall" depending on whether the lines are in one or two colors (it's difficult to tell on black-and-white like that). --Jayron32 00:23, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Many thanks! 2600:1702:690:F7A0:9C79:84F1:2A3:B3E6 (talk) 08:09, 13 December 2021 (UTC)