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EGo · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:20 pm

Rose called me to ask me to post a still for her. This was a few days ago. Sorry.

labfly · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:43 pm

perhaps rose's sudden disappearance from the movie guessing game is actually her clue? Cool

smooth. i like her style.

i'm going with "the vanishing" or "spoorloos" Laughing

urthstripe · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:05 pm

Roooooooooose!

drizjr · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:05 pm

Right, rose.
/me echos rose's "Happy New Year Everyone!"

rose · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 4:10 pm

The Bicycle Thief?

Happy New Year Everyone!

drizjr · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:35 pm

"The Rules of the Game" ?

edit: A search confirms that is, indeed, the title. And I'm fascinated by this film; one of the greatest films ever made (that I have yet to see). Thanks, labfly, for helping me find it. Smile

Here's another one that fits that category.

labfly · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:20 am

not 101 dalmations Laughing

and not odd man out

edit: (tiny hint - this film almost caused riots in the streets of paris when it was first released)
edit: (another tiny hint - everyone has his reasons)
edit: the original negative was destroyed during World War II.

Rogi Ocnorb · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:08 am

If I could get 101 Dalmations out of my head, I might have a chance at guessing this one.

How about, Odd Man Out ?

labfly · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:14 am

omg! are you kidding me? yay! rogi, that was great. while looking for this film i stumbled onto so many off beat heist movies that i want to watch. (thanks) and i'm off to vidiots to rent "the seven ups" tomorrow.

-- okay -- onward - this is one of my all time favorites:

Rogi Ocnorb · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:40 am

Labfly's up!

It's really a good movie with a great car chase by Philip D'Antoni of Bullitt and The French Connection fame.
The Seven Ups are an elite group of NYC cops who go after criminals that, if caught, will be doing seven or more years hard time. But the better part of the movie is the blurring of the lines between good and bad as the two boyhood friends on opposite sides of the law both find themselves being less polar about the distinction.

catherwood · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:59 pm

Rogi Ocnorb wrote:

Most people think the title of this movie was a reference to the other group of guys and their number,

but it's really about the consequences or penalties for their actions.

There were technically four guys in the other group.
People always think there were more,

So, we have these clues:
* movie title could be taken as referring to a group of four (or five or six, less than eleven), but
* the title really refers to an outcome (resulting from the actions of the pictured group or the "other" group?)

Something like "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" comes to mind, as being in the proper format, if not the correct movie.

I know it's not "With Six You Get Eggroll" ;)

labfly · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:18 pm

(deep breath - as i fall to my knees - that photo is making me nutz Very Happy

-- well, maybe more nutz Very Happy

)

the seven-ups?

RedHatty · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:55 pm

1960 original Ocean's 11?

EGo · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:49 pm

Once Upon a Time in America?

Rogi Ocnorb · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:33 pm

Ahhh. A young, drugged, Candace Bergen in a Lotus Esprit. That was a good heist flick and even closer on the year.
The Director of this film became known for a certain type of action scene in his movies, putting several of them at the top of the "best '?' scene in a movie" lists, out there.
There were technically four guys in the other group.
People always think there were more, though not as many as eleven.