Continuing the thread of my amusement with older films, and now to moments I did not expect, the first stop is this scene from Asphalt Jungle in which Sterling Hayden takes affront:
He’s quite serious and I’m not sure of the origin of the usage of boning but it reminded me of Al Pacino in Scarface being confronted by Paul Shenar:
And then about the same time I ran across Lauren Bacall singing in To Have and Have Not:
She sings like someone who is pretending to be a bad singer – or shall we say if a frog sang this is what it would sound like.
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