Jim wrote:
<<Was it Groucho Marx who, noting a hoodlum suddenly
coming up with dozens of smaller guns in addition to his
primary weapon, observed,
"Your gat had gittens?">>
Great line.
This reminds me of one of John Woo's trademarks, appearing in
A Better Tomorrow among other movies, in which a gunman hides
pistols along his way into a confrontation. As he, usually
Chow Yun-Fat, empties his weapon (which, in a Woo film, means
he has shot all 150 bullets in the six-shooter), he picks up
a strategically placed replacement. Tsui Hark did a hilarious
parody of this in Chinese Feast -- a gunman has forgotten
where he hid his guns; he keeps placing his hands in boiling
pots as he frantically searches for them during a shootout in
a restaurant.
Mark
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