"Thanks! I Needed That!"

[Jonathan Lighter]

When I started this thread I had an unconvincing feeling that the incident
is in R. C. Sheriff's 1929 play, "Journey's End," which was filmed in 1930.

I didn't mention it because I thought I could check my personal copy - which
I haven't found after hours of looking. Paul's thinking leads me to float
the suggestion.

Nothing I saw on the Web, however, supports this attribution.

Will search my shelves some more.

JL

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Paul <paulzjoh at mtnhome.com> wrote:

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>  This may be a red herring, but I have a memory of that scene from a
> pre 1940 british film., either WWI or british colonial outpost.
> Vaguely, as I remember, outnumbered, probably going to die, "must show
> these buggers how a gentleman/Englishman dies"
> Sorry, can't be more help than that
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> On 8/22/2010 1:23 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > The Mennen Skin Bracer ad came long before _Airplane_.  And presumably
> after
> > the gopher cartoon.
> >
> > Is the phrase just a "folk version" of the movie dialogue?
> >
> > If it isn't really in the movie, anything becomes possible.
> > JL
> > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Joel S. Berson<Berson at att.net>  wrote:
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> >> At 8/22/2010 10:49 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> >>> A few years later, in 1957, another plane crash movie was released --
> >>> "Zero Hour!", which served as the basis for "Airplane!" The makers of
> >>> "Airplane!" bought the rights to "Zero Hour!", so they were able to
> >>> crib dialogue verbatim. This video has a side-by-side comparison of
> >>> scenes from the two movies:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjU-e01zQ4
> >>>
> >>> About 2 minutes in there's a scene with a woman screaming, "I've got
> >>> to get out of here!" In "Zero Hour!" a man just shakes here, but in
> >>> the "Airplane!" version, she's shaken, slapped, and otherwise abused
> >>> by a series of passengers. Anyway, no "thanks" here either, so that
> >>> doesn't really help us.
> >> Is there different scene in "Airplane" which does have a slap and
> >> "Thanks! I Needed That!", perhaps in the cockpit?  Or am I
> >> half-remembering such an incident from some other of Leslie Nielson's
> >> spoof movies?
> >>
> >> "Airplane" is 1980.  Has anyone searched Gann's 1953 "The High and
> >> the Mighty" yet?
> >>
> >> Joel
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